Count Vladimir Stanislavovich Pototsky ( February 10, 1789 , Tulchin - April 8, 1812 , Krakow ) - Polish landowner from the magnate Potocki family, colonel of horse artillery of the Duchy of Warsaw .
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 Monument to Vladimir Pototsky in the Church of the Holy Trinity in Wawel (author - Bertel Thorvaldsen ) | ||
| Date of Birth | February 10, 1789 | |
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| Date of death | April 8, 1812 (23 years old) | |
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| Occupation | Polish colonel and landowner | |
| Father | Stanislav Schensky Pototsky | |
| Mother | Jozefina Amalia Mnishek | |
| Spouse | Thekla Sangushko | |
| Children | Stanislav and Vladimir | |
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Biography
The fourth (youngest) son of the Crown Artillery General Count Stanislav Schensny Pototsky (1752-1805) from his second marriage with Jozefina Amalia Mnishek (1752-1798).
After the death of his father, Alexander Pototsky inherited the estates Dashevsky Klyuch in the Lipovetsky district , Podvisochansky Klyuch in the Uman district and Golovanevsky Klyuch in the Baltic district . He had at his disposal 10 855 serfs.
Member of the Masonic lodge “United Brothers” ( “Bracia Zjednoczeni” ) [1] , founded in Warsaw in 1807 .
For his merits, he was posthumously awarded the Order of the Virtuti Militari . One of his best odes was dedicated to him by the Polish priest Ludwik Trynkovsky .
23-year-old Vladimir Pototsky died in the battle of Krakow on April 8, 1812 . At the expense of his wife, a monument was built in the Holy Trinity Church in Wawel [2] .
Family and Children
In 1808, he married Princess Tekla Sangushko (d. 1870 ), daughter of the last governor of Volyn, Prince Jerome Janusz Sangushko ( 1743 - 1812 ), and Anna Pruzhinsky (d. 1816 ). Their kids:
- Stanislav (1808-1874)
- Vladimir (1810-1880)
After the death of her husband, the estates passed to his widow Thekla. She was a good landowner, kept doctors and pharmacies for peasants at her own expense. Thekla went to France, where she secretly married her valet, Nikolai Thomas, to whom she had a daughter and a son.
Notes
- ↑ Stanisław Załęski, O masonii w Polsce od roku 1742 do 1822 na źródłach wyłącznie masońskich, Kraków 1908, część II, s. 130.
- ↑ Według Pamiętników Tadeusza Bobrowskiego str. 204