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Mazeppa, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 778
Housing Units (2000): 335
Land area (2000): 0.977796 sq. miles (2.532481 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.977796 sq. miles (2.532481 sq. km)
FIPS code: 41282
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 44.272441 N, 92.544195 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 55956
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Mazeppa (opera)

Mazeppa, properly Mazepa , is an opera in three acts (six scenes) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto was written by Victor Burenin and is based on Pushkin's poem Poltava.

Mazeppa is a blood-thirsty tale of crazy love, abduction, political persecution, execution, and vengeful murder. The action takes place in Ukraine at the beginning of the 18th century. The protagonists are the historical figures Ivan Stepanovych Mazeppa (c. 1640–1709), the Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks, and Vasyl Leontiyovych Kochubey (c.1640–1708), a very prosperous Ukrainian nobleman and statesman.

Mazeppa (Byron)

Mazeppa is a narrative poem written by the English romantic poet Lord Byron in 1819. It is based on a popular legend about the early life of Ivan Mazepa (1639–1709), a Ukrainian gentleman who later became Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks. According to the poem, the young Mazeppa has a love affair with a Countess Theresa while serving as a page at the Court of King John II Casimir Vasa. Countess Theresa was married to a much older Count. On discovering the affair, the Count punishes Mazeppa by tying him naked to a wild horse and setting the horse loose. The bulk of the poem describes the traumatic journey of the hero strapped to the horse. The poem has been praised for its "vigor of style and its sharp realization of the feelings of suffering and endurance". This poem also inspired Alexander Pushkin to write his poem Poltava as an answer to Byron's poem.

Published within the same covers with "Mazeppa" was the short story "A Fragment", also known as " Fragment of a Novel" and "The Burial: A Fragment", one of the earliest vampire stories in English.

Mazeppa (film)

Mazeppa is a 1993 French drama film directed by Bartabas. It was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Technical Grand Prize.

Mazeppa (symphonic poem)

Mazeppa, S. 100, is a symphonic poem composed by Franz Liszt in 1851. It is the sixth in the cycle of thirteen symphonic poems written during his time in Weimar. It tells the story of Ivan Mazepa, who seduced a noble Polish lady, and was tied naked to a wild horse that carried him to Ukraine. There, he was released by the Cossack, which later made him Hetman.

Mazepa also had inspired Victor Hugo in Les Orientales and Lord Byron for his 1819 poem Mazeppa.

The work premiered at the Court Theatre in Weimar on April 16, 1854.

Usage examples of "mazeppa".

Then, my eyes on Mazeppa, I walked halfway to where he sat his horse, then stopped, arms folded across my chest.

I have come to hear what Chief Mazeppa of the Dkota and Ulster has to say to the peaceful people he has attacked.

And for the rest of his life tell the story of his victim Mazeppa, and the destruction of the Dkota.

A young man was with Utkur, nearly as tall as Mazeppa, and strongly built.

But every one of us was concerned, because for whatever reason, when Mazeppa returned to his close men, everything around them seemed to pause.

He sat his horse only a few yards from Mazeppa, listening but not saying much.

Then Mazeppa and the others who'd dismounted went to their horses and mounted again.

It then became her turn to be captivated, for Mazeppa was a talented and considerate lover who treated her well.

Telling him what he knew but not what he suspected, Mazeppa asked the man to learn what was going on.

Usually, after Mazeppa returned his pipe to its rack, they went out together to run a few miles in the cool of morning, before eating, and swim briefly in a still-cold lake.

He hadn't known of Andre's mission, and the agreements he'd brought back with him, so Mazeppa described them briefly.

The featureless screen in front of Mazeppa was transformed, seemingly by the gesture, brightening abruptly into a duplicate of the two views that Jorval watched.

By then Mazeppa recognized Thunder Butte in the distance, and had counted some eight hundred horsemen.

Having been closeted all day with Pastor Morosov, he hadn't heard about Sky Chief's visit, nor had Mazeppa mentioned it.

They could see saw each other through the open door, and Mazeppa beckoned Lemmi in.