Stefan Konstantin Pesochinsky

Originated from the Ukrainian noble family of the Pesochinsky coat of arms Fox . The youngest son of Yakub Pesochinsky, a cup of Bratslavsky , and Anna Krasnoselsky. Born in 1628 in Bratslava or Vinnitsa . In 1632, he lost his father. He was brought up in a Catholic spirit. In the 1640s, together with his brothers, he came into conflict with his mother, who, after the death of her husband, remarried - to Vasily Rogozinsky. In 1646, the trial of Stefan, his brothers Pavel and Ian with the stepmother of Jan's cousin - Elzbieta Pesochinsky - begins for the village of Novaya Kamenogorka. In 1647, Stefan Pesochinsky sells the village of Ulanov , the fourth part of the village of Kamenogorka, the village of Novaya Kamenogorka, the village of Zarechye to his cousin Yan Pesochinsky - in the Novogrudok and Ulanovsky elders, estates that were the property of him and his brother Yan. In 1648, Stefan Pesochinsky was elected as a deputy from the Bratslav Voivodeship to the Electoral Diet , where Jan Kazimir Waza was elected the new king.

In 1649 - 1651 he participated in the war against the rebellious Ukrainian Cossacks, led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky . In 1652 he headed the Cossack banner . In 1653 he was elected ambassador to the Extraordinary Diet. In 1654 it became the Bratslav substation. In 1655, Stefan Pesochinsky was appointed captain of the Cossack banner in 273 cavalry. In 1656, he initially planned to join the Swedes, led by King Charles X Gustav , but in the end he switched to the side of King John II Casimir, joined the army of Stefan Chernetsky near Lviv . In 1656, King Jan II Casimir granted Stefan Pesochinsky a war in Bransk . Soon becomes a colonel . At the head of the regiment of horsemen participated in the battle of Warsaw on February 29-31, 1656.

In 1659, Stefan Pesochinsky was elected as a deputy from the Bratslav region to the Diet . He became a member of the commission preparing a peace treaty with the Moscow kingdom. In the same year, he filed a manifestation (statement) with the lawsuit against Nikolai Zhabokritsky to the Lutsk court because of an insult to his wife and children. In 1660, he bought for 15 thousand Polish zlotys from the basement of Krakow Todias Morsztyn ownership of Ostroleka, consisting of 2 cities and 13 villages. In 1661 he received for life possession the villages of Bilmach, Ban, Gulu, Skazhenik, Zdanovci, Rudka, Kovanov, Yugna in the Bratslav Voivodeship .

In 1661 , 1662 , 1664, Stefan Pesochinsky again became ambassador to the Sejm. In 1664 - 1665 he was in the Polish-Lithuanian army, which acted on the Right-Bank Ukraine against the Moscow troops and left-bank Cossack regiments.

In 1665, he participated in the Battle of Czestochowa on the side of the Rokosans Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirsky . For this, he was deprived of the post of the Bratslavl substation, but actually retained it. At the same time, he came into conflict on the estate of Vysotsk with Pavel Tetery , a former hetman of Right-Bank Ukraine. He got his banitsa in 1669 . In the same year he received the Bratslav headman. Teter in response made a donation to the estate for the Order of the Jesuits. In 1670, after the poisoning of Pavel Teteri, Iskritsky and Pirotsky, who were with him in exile, blamed Stefan Pesochinsky for his death, who did not deny the murder, but said that he did not.

In 1670, along with Stanislav Benevsky, he negotiated with the right-bank hetman Petro Doroshenko . On September 2, 1670, as one of the delegates of the Commonwealth, he signed an agreement in Ostrog with the hetman Mikhail Khanenko . In 1672, Stefan Pesochinsky received the post of Berestean chestnut . He was an ambassador to the Sejm, where he became a supporter of Jan Sobieski, opposed King Michael Koribut Vishnevetsky .

In 1673 - 1675, Stefan Pesochinsky, at the head of two banners, participated in the military campaigns of King Jan III Sobieski against the Turks and Tatars in Podolia. In 1673, together with his brother Jan, he received from his cousin Jan Pesochinsky, who had no descendants, the villages of Sosnitsa, Karp, New Mills and Pogar. In 1678 he entered the commission, which was preparing a new peace treaty with the Moscow kingdom . In 1679, after the conclusion of the Andrusovsky truce, he lost significant possessions in the Chernihiv Voivodeship . As compensation he received from the Sejm 7 thousand Polish zlotys.

In 1684, Stefan Pesochinsky became a candidate for the post of Polish Lithuanian Hetman, but due to the negative attitude of King Jan Sobieski did not receive an appointment. In 1686 he was appointed governor of Smolensk. However, it was rather an honorary position, which allowed Stefan Pesochinsky to become a senator of the Commonwealth. In fact, the Smolensk Voivodeship was under the rule of the Moscow kingdom . He died in 1691 .

1. Wife - Teresa of the Wanner clan.

children:

• Hedgehog, headman Ulanovsky
• Nikolay Stefan (? - 1689)
• Elena, wife of the representative of the Leschinsky clan

2. Wife - Lucia Teresa Derevinsky (d. 1676).

children:

• Christina, wife of a representative of the Romanovskiy clan
• Magdalene, wife of a representative of the Cholevsky clan
• Anna, Bernardine Nun

3. Wife - Sofia Barbara, daughter of Jan Firlei, the elder of Smidinsky.

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