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Dikanka was celebrated by Pushkin in Poltava (1829), which recounts the love between Hetman Mazeppa and Mariya Kochubey, and the execution of her father Prince Vasyl Kochubey by Peter the Great. The estate is also the setting of Gogol's Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (1831–32). ↩
Prince Viktor Pavlovitch Kochubey (1768–1834), Russian statesman, one of Alexander I's closest advisers and first Minister of the Interior, later Grand Chancellor. ↩
Prince Vasyl Kochubey (1640–1708), Ukrainian statesman, was executed by Peter the Great on charges of treason brought by Hetman Mazeppa. His bloodstained shirt was preserved by the family as a relic. ↩