Ivan Mazeppa

Ivan Stepanovich Mazepa (Ukrainian: Russian ІванСтепановичМазепа, : ИванСтепановичМазепа, francized in Jean Mazeppa by certain sources) born towards 1639 and died on August 28th, 1709, was Hetman Cosaques.

Biography

Born in a noble but poor family from the Palatinat of Podolie, Ivan Stepanovich Mazepa becomes page of the king of Poland, Jean II Casimir Vasa. It benefits from its life at the court to acquire knowledge which later will make its success.

According to a tradition taken again by Voltaire in his " History of Charles XII" , it is during its stay in Volhynie (between 1659 and 1663) that it ties a connection with the wife of a Polish gentleman named Falbowski, its employer according to the Bouillet dictionary. This animated life is the occasion dreamed for him to show its qualities. He is initially secretary then adjudant of the hetman Samoilowitz.

This last is deposited on June 20th, 1687 following its Impéritie which costs the life at a good part of the army cossack. In 1851, Franz Liszt publishes her Twelve Trancendentales Studies, whose fourth Mazeppa is entitled, in direct reference to the poem of V.Hugo.

Orthography of the name

The sources of this article, using the Alphabet French, write Mazeppa . It is at least the case of Hugo and Michaud.

Quotation of the Bouillet dictionary

“Hetman or prince of the Cossack S. Né in Podolie about 1640, of a noble but poor family, was with the service of a Polish lord, when this one discovered between his wife and him an intrigue in love. According to an accredited tradition, it made it attach very naked on the back of a wild horse, and gave up it with the race of this animal, which, raised in the Ukraine, carried it until in this region. There, Mazeppa fur collected by some peasants, whose care recalled it to the life. It was fixed among them, was pointed out by its energy and its talents, became secretary of the Hetman cossacks, and after its death was elected in its place, 1687. In this station, Mazeppa could reconcile the affection of the Tsar Pierre I, which appointed it prince of the Ukraine; but wanting to make itself independent, it betrays the tsar at the time of his wars with Charles XII, and fought for this one with Poltava. After the defeat of king de Suède, it took refuge in Valachie, then with Bender, where it died in 1709. Mazeppa is the hero of the poems of Lord Byron. ”

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