. Programme. is friend and patron, Peter the Great, who long believed confidinglyin his good faith, and banished or executed as calumnious traitors aU who, likePalei, Kotchoubey and Iskra, ventured to accuse him of conspiring with the enemiesof Russia. Bent, however, upon casting off the Russian yoke, Mazeppa became,in his seventieth year, and after much hesitation and inconstancy of purpose,an ally of the Swedish monarch, Charles XII. After the disastrous battle of Pul-towa, fought, it is said, by his advice, Baturin, his capital, was taken and sackedby Menshikoff, and his name anathematized
. Programme. is friend and patron, Peter the Great, who long believed confidinglyin his good faith, and banished or executed as calumnious traitors aU who, likePalei, Kotchoubey and Iskra, ventured to accuse him of conspiring with the enemiesof Russia. Bent, however, upon casting off the Russian yoke, Mazeppa became,in his seventieth year, and after much hesitation and inconstancy of purpose,an ally of the Swedish monarch, Charles XII. After the disastrous battle of Pul-towa, fought, it is said, by his advice, Baturin, his capital, was taken and sackedby Menshikoff, and his name anathematized throughout the churches of Russia,and his effigy suspended from the gallows. A wretched fugitive, he escaped toBender, but only to end his life by poison in 1709. Liszt composed about 1826 a pianoforte etude entitled Mazeppa, * The Princess Kotchoubey is named as the heroine. In H. M. Milners romantic drama (drama-tized from Byrons poem) she is Olinska, the daughter of the Castellan of Laurinski. ^POLE Linens. LRettve Dislinelx /2 tixerxs
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