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Encyclopedia > Mazeppa (Byron)

This article is about the poem by Lord Byron, for other uses see Mazeppa Mazeppa is the name of several places in the United States: Mazeppa in Minnesota Mazeppa Township in Minnesota Mazeppa Township in South Dakota Ivan Mazepa, known also as Mazeppa was a Cossack Hetman. ...


Mazeppa is an epic poem written by Lord Byron in 1818. Its hero is a page who tied naked to the back of a horse that is set loose, following involvement with the wife of a gentleman. Lord Byron, English poet Lord Byron (1803), as painted by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (January 22, 1788 – April 19, 1824) was the most widely read English language poet of his day. ... 1818 (MDCCCXVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar. ...

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Ivan Mazepa Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa (Ukrainian: , Russian: , historically spelled as Mazeppa; circa 1640—August 28, 1709), Cossack Hetman (Ataman) of the Hetmanate in Left-bank Ukraine, in 1687–1708. ...



 

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