Antoni Protazy Potocki

Antoni Protazy Potocki
Antoni Protazy Potocki
Coat of arms	Piława
Born	11 September 1761; Guzów near Skierniewice
Died	1801
Family	Potocki
Consort	Marianna Lubomirska
Issue	Emilia Potocka
Father	Jan Prosper Potocki
Mother	Paula Szembek [pl]

Antoni Protazy Potocki (11 September 1761 – 1801), aka Prot, was a Polish nobleman and an early entrepreneur.

Biography

He was born to Paula née Szembek and her second husband, Count Jan Prosper Potocki, Starosta of Guzów. He was a younger half-brother of Feliks Lubienski and older half-brother of Michal Kleofas Oginski and his sister, Józefa Ogińska.

Antoni was voivode of Kiev in 1791 and briefly, starost of Guzów.^[1] He became a banker in Warsaw.

As proprietor of the Chudniv estate, he established several factories in the village of Makhnivka, near Berdychiv. He was director the Polish Black Sea Trading Company, and ran an import-export business in Russian-ruled Kherson. Potocki had inherited wealth from his father: 6 million zlotys and a number of estates.^[2]^[1]At the peak of his wealth, in early 1790s, his fortune was estimated 60-70 million zlotys. However political turmoils brought his (and many other wealthy Polish businessmen) fortune to the end. The first strike was the first partition of Poland, during which people rushed to banks for money, and many banks, including Potocki's, crashed. He was on the way to recovery, but the second political blow followed: the Kościuszko Uprising of 1794. Eventually much of the remining fortune and estates were lost due to unpaid taxes. The knowledge of his last days in oblivion is fragmentary.^[2]

He was invested as a Knight of the Order of the White Eagle, awarded on May 8, 1781. Later he was warded with the Order of Saint Stanislaus.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Zofia Zielińska, Prot Potocki, Polski Słownik Biograficzny, no. 28/1, 1984, p. 134-135.
^ ^a ^b Ivan Bondarev, Antoni Protazy Potocki, Kurier Galicyjski, September 11, 2017

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[zozi-1] Zofia Zielińska, Prot Potocki, Polski Słownik Biograficzny, no. 28/1, 1984, p. 134-135.

[ibo-2] Ivan Bondarev, Antoni Protazy Potocki, Kurier Galicyjski, September 11, 2017

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