Antoni Protazy Potocki
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Antoni Protazy Potocki (11 September 1761 – 1801), aka Prot, was a Polish nobleman and an early
Michal Kleofas Oginski and his sister, Józefa Ogińska
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Antoni was
.As proprietor of the
Odessa from a "sleepy fishing village" into an international trade centre.[2] This subsequently attracted the attention of Catherine the Great who turned the thriving port into one of Russia's leading cities. Potocki had inherited wealth from his father. Due to the economic crisis in the country Potocki was bankrupt in 1793.[3]
He was invested as a Knight of the Order of the White Eagle, awarded on May 8, 1781.
References
- ^ Zielińska, Zofia. Prot Potocki, Polski Słownik Biograficzny, no. 28/1, 1984, p. 134.
- ^ Łubieński, Tomasz Wentworth. (1886). Henryk Łubieński i jego bracia: wspomnenia rodzinne odnoszące się do historyi Królestwa Polskiego i Banku Polskiego. Warsaw: Księg. G. Gebethner, p.41 (in Polish)
- ^ Zofia Zielińska, Prot Potocki, Polski Słownik Biograficzny, no. 28/1, 1984, p. 134-135.
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