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Show Famous Polish City. To the tourist the most interesting building in Galatz is the Church of St. Mary's, which contains the tomb of the celebrated Cossack chief, Ma-zeppa, Ma-zeppa, whose intrigue with the wife of a noble at the Polish court and his dire punishment (being bound naked to the back of a wild horse and set adrift on the desert) have been Immortalized Im-mortalized in Byron's poem. The tomb is supposed to have been rifled of its remains by the Russians during dur-ing one of their several descents upon the city, for the memory of Mazeppa is execrated by the soldiers of the czar, inasmuch as he became an ally of Charles XII of Sweden. He died of poison in the same year that Peter the Great defeated Charles on the field of Pultowa. |