Spouse(s) Marianna Dąbrowska Mother Joanna Sieniawska Grandparent Jan Potocki | Noble family Potocki Coat of arms Piława coat of arms | |
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Died 13 April 1782, Pochaiv, Ukraine Place of burial Pochayiv Lavra, Pochaiv, Ukraine Parents Stefan Aleksander Potocki, Joanna Sieniawska Great-grandparents Stefan Potocki, Anna Teresa Ossolińska, Józef Potocki | ||
Mikołaj Bazyli Potocki (1712–1782) was a Polish nobleman, starost of Kaniv, Bohuslav, benefactor of the Buchach townhall, Pochayiv Lavra, Dominican Church in Lviv, deputy to Sejm and owner of the Buchach castle.
Mikołaj's father, Stefan Aleksander Potocki, Governor of Bełz, with his second wife, Joanna Sieniawska, were the founders of Basilian monastery of the UGCC in Buchach. Mikołaj Hieronim Sieniawski was his grandfather.
Infamous for his many excesses and habits, he was immortalized in many Polish and Ukrainian stories and legends (especially those of the 19th century), notably in Ukrainian ballad Bondarivna (about a cooper´s daughter, whom he murdered when she refusing to live with him). Zygmunt Krasiński in his Nieboska Komedia referred to him as a "governor, who shot women on the trees and baked Jews alive" ("Ów, starosta, baby strzelał po drzewach i Żydów piekł żywcem"). Near the end of his life, after the first partition of Poland, where many of his lands have passed under Austrian rule, he was ordered to disband his private army. He then attempted to create an image of pious and almost saint person, moving to a monastery and sponsoring many religious buildings and organisations – nonetheless, even until his last years, he retained a harem.
Buried in Ławra Poczajowska (Pochayiv Lavra).