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Polish female devil in the sultan's harem
Instead of taking care of children, she preferred dangerous adventures. Although she could only read and write, she became the "court doctor" of the Turkish Sultan Mustafa. She looked after his entire harem. Regina Salomea Pilsztyn née Rusiecki would be considered an adventurer even today, although more often she is referred to as "the first Polish doctor".
Lidia Kawecka
13.2 thous.
May 2, 2021, 10:00
Regina Salomea Pilsztyn née Rusiecki was born in the Nowogródek region. She came from a Catholic, petty noble family
At the age of 14, Regina was married to a famous German doctor and ophthalmologist. Three years later - after his death - she started running her own practice. She is said to be "the first Polish doctor"
The woman traveled all over Europe - she was probably the first Polish woman to make more than one sea journey
Even during her lifetime, she was considered one of the most outstanding figures of old Poland
More such topics can be found on the main page of Onet.pl
As she recalls, "in her youth, she was advised to shoot and she always had pistols . " She earned her living, jewels and luxuries on her own. One could say that "where the devil could not, he sent Pilsztynowa there". We do not know exactly what beauty she was, because her second husband disfigured her when he tried to poison her . Apparently, all the defects disappeared afterwards, but she was left without some teeth.
Miss doctor
Regina Salomea Rusiecka was born in the Nowogródek region in 1718 . She came from a Catholic, petty noble family. Virgo did not have a chance for a thorough education then, so she learned only to read and write . This and so rudimentary education was interrupted by ... a marriage. Fourteen-year-old Regina was married to a well-known German doctor and ophthalmologist, the Lutheran Jakub Halpir . It all started from this relationship ...
It sucks in 80 liters of air in three seconds. This is how the airplane toilet works
Halpir practiced in Istanbul, so right after the wedding, Regina left her hometown and left with her husband. Jakub was an excellent doctor, with him the young Regina learned the basics of medical theory and practice , including ophthalmology. When my husband fell ill with muscle spasms, he was treated by an Italian colleague who was in Turkish captivity. He further expanded Regina's knowledge, gave her some medical textbooks, and taught her Latin , which was essential for prescribing.
The marriage with Dr. Halpy was not successful. He, a scientist and an enlightened Lutheran, looked with a sober eye at the world around him. Despite the knowledge acquired with her husband, she still believed in astrology, witchcraft, witchcraft and even the arts of sorcery .
In her memoirs, she wrote about her husband: "It is difficult for him to convince him that witchcraft can make a man die". Although their daughter Konstancja was the fruit of the union, the spouses rarely found a common language . One day, after another domestic row, the angry doctor Halpir abandoned his wife , leaving her only with a modest pension. What was left of 17-year-old Regina? She decided to return to Poland.
Soon she heard the news of her husband's death. She started running her own practice . She approached the patients intuitively, prayed for their recovery after the therapy. She had once seen a village midwife deliver to a woman who had already miscarried several times. When the baby was born dead, she covered it with a kneading bowl, prayed , took off the bowl and luckily it turned out that the baby was alive. She herself successfully applied this method during childbirth.
Another time, in Istanbul, she treated the 22-year-old son of the Crown Treasurer, praying fervently . In her book she wrote: "And so I took God's help and treated this patient. I gave him cataplasms for his head and face, because for internal consumption it was impossible to give anything, because the tongue was blown out of its mouth. [...] Jesus helped me so much that I perfectly cured this patient in 40 days. Well, you can anyway ...
I'm not a spy
A young, seventeen-year-old widow attracted the attention of men . Józef Rakoczy, the prince of Transylvania, from whom she had to flee, tried to seduce her. Wanting to take revenge, the rejected admirer accused the girl of spying , and for this she was threatened with certain death.
Regina escaped from him to the Turkish Ruszczuk (today Ruse in Bulgaria). As she wrote: "in order to get rid of the unnecessary amorata [...] I quietly hired a small boat and went to Ruszczuk the Danube. But I could not get famous about the fact that I was going [...] I did not take my passport out of this fear, lest Prince Rakoczy would he found out about me and that he should not disturb me on this journey. " It was only a coincidence that she managed to get out alive .
Pasha Ahmet-aga, the Turkish Crown Treasurer , has just arrived in Ruszczuk . His 22-year-old son was seriously ill. Regina Salomea complained to the dignitary: "Dear sir, never believe that I should be a spy at such a young age ... And why this calumny on me?"
Pasha wanted the well-known doctor to heal his son. So he ordered her to be free of all charges and, in addition, to be brought to his palace. When Regina Salomea restored the son of a Turkish dignitary in 40 days , he immediately promised to give her "such a strong protection that she would not be afraid of anyone anymore". The healing of the son of a sultan dignitary made her wealthy friends . She became so famous that "they had her" for the best doctor in every circumstance ".
Regina passionately treated her patients , diligently recording the treatments she prescribed and their therapeutic effects in her private journal. She intended to publish the results of her research one day. The author proclaimed herself a doctor of medicine and ophthalmology .
Regina goes after the lecher
She was famous now, and thanks to that , she quickly began to earn huge money . She remarried , this time consciously, to a prisoner whom she had redeemed from Turkish captivity two years earlier. She was then 21 years old.
Józef Fortunat de Pilsztyn was the standard-bearer of the Lithuanian hetman, Prince Michał Radziwiłł. Together with her husband, she settled at the prince's court in Nievizh, Lithuania .
Soon she left for St. Petersburg , where, thanks to her skills, she found herself at the tsarist court , in the immediate vicinity of the empress of Russia, Anna Iwanówna . There she successfully cured the daughter of Duchess of Cherkassy from persistent dizziness.
A girl who had been blind for fourteen years successfully removed her cataract with a special "device". The Empress, to the jealousy of the court doctors, decided to let Regina Salomea Pilsztyn live in her palace.
It would seem that the second marriage will be successful. And yet not. Although the Pilsztyn family had two sons, their relationship was not happy . Regina, bored with life at the princely court, decided to leave her husband and devote herself to what had long been the content of her life - travel and medical practice.
The decision to leave was hastened by the fact that "her husband, a loser and a fornicator, broke her faith". Once he even tried to poison her , inflicting a poison so cruel that - as he says - "my teeth fell out, my hair came off, my nails grew rough, even all my skin was peeled off". Although the "defects" soon passed, the scoop changed over.
All "this confusion is standing with the bone in my throat and the world has disgusted me" - she recalled. In 1743 she finally broke up with her husband and stayed with two sons. From then on, she never mentioned her husband again. But that didn't mean she was going to be alone. Another relationship , as turbulent as the previous ones, was slowly starting .
Now she's married to a mysterious bachelor seven years her junior . Charmed by "amorat", which she describes in her diaries only with the initials "JMCZ", she allowed herself to be shamelessly exploited . She gave him money for various deceptive ideas, and he took advantage of her gullibility.
It even happened that she entrusted him with looking after her sons for several months , when she left for Lviv. The result of this recklessness was the death of the elder of them .
"Amorat" - as she wrote - "he was glad to drink and joke with the girl (...) that is why he locked the child in a dark shop for three months and forgot about him that sometimes he would barely give him bread for three days and so the child lay on the bare ground, it got scared, it swelled and died from it. "
Regina's son was then nine years old and more than this sentence, Pilsztynowa did not devote to his departure in her memoirs. The case was even brought to court, but "amorat" escaped from arrest to the monastery in Kamieniec . There he also met with Pilsztynową, who ... forgave his guilt and withdrew the accusation.
A paradise on earth
After the tragic moments, the time has come for the Great Adventure . Regina traveled all over Europe. She was probably the first woman from Poland to have made more than one sea voyage .
She wrote about it later: "If anyone is afraid of the sea, she is childishly afraid and worthy of laughter. I, being a white-headed woman, have been at the sea several times, but nothing happened to me by the grace of God the Most High."
Another time, when she was asked by a Turkish lord, Hasha Suliman Aga, for eye treatment, she rented a ship to reach him, and "it took two days to travel by sea".
It was unfortunate that the sea journey took eleven days, and as soon as Pilsztynowa reached its destination, it was on its way back, the ship sank , barely leaving the shore. And this time, providence was watching over the brave woman.
During her travels, she did not hesitate to change into male clothes . When she was attacked by highwaymen, she persuaded them that she was not a woman at all. She loved luxury, glamor, wealth . She visited Wallachia, Albania , Macedonia and Greece . In Serbia, she accompanied the Turkish army fighting Austria.
She was the personal doctor of the exiled Crimean Khan in Bulgaria, and in Vienna she became the doctor of the Turkish ambassador. It also traveled almost all of Egypt .
She was insatiable . She scrupulously collected charges for the treatment, but also started buying out prisoners of war. She treated it as a profitable investment of her capital. She was involved in the trade of wine and dried fruit , the amorant had to cost a lot .
During her stay in Istanbul, she became a court doctor in the Sultan's harem . She has finally found her place in the world. While the stay at the tsarist court in St. Petersburg did not appeal to her very much, Turkey charmed her .
She knew the local language well and had many powerful friends there. The Sultan's court seemed like a paradise on earth . And because she was exceptionally effective, she treated the whole great world of the Turkish capital.
The wives and daughters of the sultan dignitaries could not be examined by men . This is how she found the sultan harem inaccessible to the unbelievers, about which she wrote in her memoirs: "There is a place in Istanbul, Eski Seraj, this is where the wives and handmaids of the first emperors live, and these are real slaves in the world, because they must sit there until their death. ".
An emancipated noblewoman
Which woman in the eighteenth century was able to pursue her goals with such determination? Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa clearly did not want to stick to the conventions of her era . No wonder that during her lifetime she was considered one of the most outstanding figures of old Poland .
She was fluent in firearms , when she had to defend herself from a Turkish robber armed with a pistol, she laughed, taking a few rivets stuffed from her pockets and said to him: then let what God give! ".
The fruit of her turbulent experiences is her diary entitled "The procedure of my journeys and my life" . The author writes in it: "In honor and glory to God in the Holy Trinity, I offer everything good and bad that I had and suffered, and I must have and will, I will offer all this for the merits of heaven, as well as write this trivial book with my own hand. and, at my own expense, have to be printed ... ".
She signed her work as "medicine doctor and ophthalmologist Regina Salomea Makowska". Where this surname came from - it is not known to this day. Perhaps it is a trace of the mysterious "amorat" JMCZ - probably the only true love of Regina Salomea née Rusiecka Pilsztynowa.
Polish female devil in the sultan's harem
Instead of taking care of children, she preferred dangerous adventures. Although she could only read and write, she became the "court doctor" of the Turkish Sultan Mustafa. She looked after his entire harem. Regina Salomea Pilsztyn née Rusiecki would be considered an adventurer even today, although more often she is referred to as "the first Polish doctor".
Lidia Kawecka
13.2 thous.
May 2, 2021, 10:00
Regina Salomea Pilsztyn née Rusiecki was born in the Nowogródek region. She came from a Catholic, petty noble family
At the age of 14, Regina was married to a famous German doctor and ophthalmologist. Three years later - after his death - she started running her own practice. She is said to be "the first Polish doctor"
The woman traveled all over Europe - she was probably the first Polish woman to make more than one sea journey
Even during her lifetime, she was considered one of the most outstanding figures of old Poland
More such topics can be found on the main page of Onet.pl
As she recalls, "in her youth, she was advised to shoot and she always had pistols . " She earned her living, jewels and luxuries on her own. One could say that "where the devil could not, he sent Pilsztynowa there". We do not know exactly what beauty she was, because her second husband disfigured her when he tried to poison her . Apparently, all the defects disappeared afterwards, but she was left without some teeth.
Miss doctor
Regina Salomea Rusiecka was born in the Nowogródek region in 1718 . She came from a Catholic, petty noble family. Virgo did not have a chance for a thorough education then, so she learned only to read and write . This and so rudimentary education was interrupted by ... a marriage. Fourteen-year-old Regina was married to a well-known German doctor and ophthalmologist, the Lutheran Jakub Halpir . It all started from this relationship ...
It sucks in 80 liters of air in three seconds. This is how the airplane toilet works
Halpir practiced in Istanbul, so right after the wedding, Regina left her hometown and left with her husband. Jakub was an excellent doctor, with him the young Regina learned the basics of medical theory and practice , including ophthalmology. When my husband fell ill with muscle spasms, he was treated by an Italian colleague who was in Turkish captivity. He further expanded Regina's knowledge, gave her some medical textbooks, and taught her Latin , which was essential for prescribing.
The marriage with Dr. Halpy was not successful. He, a scientist and an enlightened Lutheran, looked with a sober eye at the world around him. Despite the knowledge acquired with her husband, she still believed in astrology, witchcraft, witchcraft and even the arts of sorcery .
In her memoirs, she wrote about her husband: "It is difficult for him to convince him that witchcraft can make a man die". Although their daughter Konstancja was the fruit of the union, the spouses rarely found a common language . One day, after another domestic row, the angry doctor Halpir abandoned his wife , leaving her only with a modest pension. What was left of 17-year-old Regina? She decided to return to Poland.
Soon she heard the news of her husband's death. She started running her own practice . She approached the patients intuitively, prayed for their recovery after the therapy. She had once seen a village midwife deliver to a woman who had already miscarried several times. When the baby was born dead, she covered it with a kneading bowl, prayed , took off the bowl and luckily it turned out that the baby was alive. She herself successfully applied this method during childbirth.
Another time, in Istanbul, she treated the 22-year-old son of the Crown Treasurer, praying fervently . In her book she wrote: "And so I took God's help and treated this patient. I gave him cataplasms for his head and face, because for internal consumption it was impossible to give anything, because the tongue was blown out of its mouth. [...] Jesus helped me so much that I perfectly cured this patient in 40 days. Well, you can anyway ...
I'm not a spy
A young, seventeen-year-old widow attracted the attention of men . Józef Rakoczy, the prince of Transylvania, from whom she had to flee, tried to seduce her. Wanting to take revenge, the rejected admirer accused the girl of spying , and for this she was threatened with certain death.
Regina escaped from him to the Turkish Ruszczuk (today Ruse in Bulgaria). As she wrote: "in order to get rid of the unnecessary amorata [...] I quietly hired a small boat and went to Ruszczuk the Danube. But I could not get famous about the fact that I was going [...] I did not take my passport out of this fear, lest Prince Rakoczy would he found out about me and that he should not disturb me on this journey. " It was only a coincidence that she managed to get out alive .
Pasha Ahmet-aga, the Turkish Crown Treasurer , has just arrived in Ruszczuk . His 22-year-old son was seriously ill. Regina Salomea complained to the dignitary: "Dear sir, never believe that I should be a spy at such a young age ... And why this calumny on me?"
Pasha wanted the well-known doctor to heal his son. So he ordered her to be free of all charges and, in addition, to be brought to his palace. When Regina Salomea restored the son of a Turkish dignitary in 40 days , he immediately promised to give her "such a strong protection that she would not be afraid of anyone anymore". The healing of the son of a sultan dignitary made her wealthy friends . She became so famous that "they had her" for the best doctor in every circumstance ".
Regina passionately treated her patients , diligently recording the treatments she prescribed and their therapeutic effects in her private journal. She intended to publish the results of her research one day. The author proclaimed herself a doctor of medicine and ophthalmology .
Regina goes after the lecher
She was famous now, and thanks to that , she quickly began to earn huge money . She remarried , this time consciously, to a prisoner whom she had redeemed from Turkish captivity two years earlier. She was then 21 years old.
Józef Fortunat de Pilsztyn was the standard-bearer of the Lithuanian hetman, Prince Michał Radziwiłł. Together with her husband, she settled at the prince's court in Nievizh, Lithuania .
Soon she left for St. Petersburg , where, thanks to her skills, she found herself at the tsarist court , in the immediate vicinity of the empress of Russia, Anna Iwanówna . There she successfully cured the daughter of Duchess of Cherkassy from persistent dizziness.
A girl who had been blind for fourteen years successfully removed her cataract with a special "device". The Empress, to the jealousy of the court doctors, decided to let Regina Salomea Pilsztyn live in her palace.
It would seem that the second marriage will be successful. And yet not. Although the Pilsztyn family had two sons, their relationship was not happy . Regina, bored with life at the princely court, decided to leave her husband and devote herself to what had long been the content of her life - travel and medical practice.
The decision to leave was hastened by the fact that "her husband, a loser and a fornicator, broke her faith". Once he even tried to poison her , inflicting a poison so cruel that - as he says - "my teeth fell out, my hair came off, my nails grew rough, even all my skin was peeled off". Although the "defects" soon passed, the scoop changed over.
All "this confusion is standing with the bone in my throat and the world has disgusted me" - she recalled. In 1743 she finally broke up with her husband and stayed with two sons. From then on, she never mentioned her husband again. But that didn't mean she was going to be alone. Another relationship , as turbulent as the previous ones, was slowly starting .
Now she's married to a mysterious bachelor seven years her junior . Charmed by "amorat", which she describes in her diaries only with the initials "JMCZ", she allowed herself to be shamelessly exploited . She gave him money for various deceptive ideas, and he took advantage of her gullibility.
It even happened that she entrusted him with looking after her sons for several months , when she left for Lviv. The result of this recklessness was the death of the elder of them .
"Amorat" - as she wrote - "he was glad to drink and joke with the girl (...) that is why he locked the child in a dark shop for three months and forgot about him that sometimes he would barely give him bread for three days and so the child lay on the bare ground, it got scared, it swelled and died from it. "
Regina's son was then nine years old and more than this sentence, Pilsztynowa did not devote to his departure in her memoirs. The case was even brought to court, but "amorat" escaped from arrest to the monastery in Kamieniec . There he also met with Pilsztynową, who ... forgave his guilt and withdrew the accusation.
A paradise on earth
After the tragic moments, the time has come for the Great Adventure . Regina traveled all over Europe. She was probably the first woman from Poland to have made more than one sea voyage .
She wrote about it later: "If anyone is afraid of the sea, she is childishly afraid and worthy of laughter. I, being a white-headed woman, have been at the sea several times, but nothing happened to me by the grace of God the Most High."
Another time, when she was asked by a Turkish lord, Hasha Suliman Aga, for eye treatment, she rented a ship to reach him, and "it took two days to travel by sea".
It was unfortunate that the sea journey took eleven days, and as soon as Pilsztynowa reached its destination, it was on its way back, the ship sank , barely leaving the shore. And this time, providence was watching over the brave woman.
During her travels, she did not hesitate to change into male clothes . When she was attacked by highwaymen, she persuaded them that she was not a woman at all. She loved luxury, glamor, wealth . She visited Wallachia, Albania , Macedonia and Greece . In Serbia, she accompanied the Turkish army fighting Austria.
She was the personal doctor of the exiled Crimean Khan in Bulgaria, and in Vienna she became the doctor of the Turkish ambassador. It also traveled almost all of Egypt .
She was insatiable . She scrupulously collected charges for the treatment, but also started buying out prisoners of war. She treated it as a profitable investment of her capital. She was involved in the trade of wine and dried fruit , the amorant had to cost a lot .
During her stay in Istanbul, she became a court doctor in the Sultan's harem . She has finally found her place in the world. While the stay at the tsarist court in St. Petersburg did not appeal to her very much, Turkey charmed her .
She knew the local language well and had many powerful friends there. The Sultan's court seemed like a paradise on earth . And because she was exceptionally effective, she treated the whole great world of the Turkish capital.
The wives and daughters of the sultan dignitaries could not be examined by men . This is how she found the sultan harem inaccessible to the unbelievers, about which she wrote in her memoirs: "There is a place in Istanbul, Eski Seraj, this is where the wives and handmaids of the first emperors live, and these are real slaves in the world, because they must sit there until their death. ".
An emancipated noblewoman
Which woman in the eighteenth century was able to pursue her goals with such determination? Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa clearly did not want to stick to the conventions of her era . No wonder that during her lifetime she was considered one of the most outstanding figures of old Poland .
She was fluent in firearms , when she had to defend herself from a Turkish robber armed with a pistol, she laughed, taking a few rivets stuffed from her pockets and said to him: then let what God give! ".
The fruit of her turbulent experiences is her diary entitled "The procedure of my journeys and my life" . The author writes in it: "In honor and glory to God in the Holy Trinity, I offer everything good and bad that I had and suffered, and I must have and will, I will offer all this for the merits of heaven, as well as write this trivial book with my own hand. and, at my own expense, have to be printed ... ".
She signed her work as "medicine doctor and ophthalmologist Regina Salomea Makowska". Where this surname came from - it is not known to this day. Perhaps it is a trace of the mysterious "amorat" JMCZ - probably the only true love of Regina Salomea née Rusiecka Pilsztynowa.
