Brigadier Potemkin's wife asked to be sent to a monastery because of her husband's tyranny
74-year-old Maria Danilovna Potemkina appealed to the Synod with a request to let her go to a monastery, since her husband was mocking her because of her “decrepitude.” “The said husband, Brigadier Potemkin, seeing such complete old age and decrepitude, hates her like an adversary, and plundered her movable estate without a trace, and beats her Marya in mortal combat innocently, and thereby mutilated her, namely: at different times, beating her, breaking her , Marya, with a cane, his head, and