In the Archangel Michael Church of the town were kept the donations of Captain Gregory Potocki: crosses, silver-gilded bowls, silver discus, three stars and more.

He was awarded the Order of St. George, 4th degree: “For selflessly and skillfully guiding the brilliant actions of the Guards howitzer and light artillery, especially in the August battles at Kasarzhev during the defeat of the 10th Austrian corps, September 2, 1914, while mastering the crossing of the San River near Křeshov and October 9–14.

[9] In 1938, 81-year-old General Pototsky was accused of counter-revolutionary activity and terrorist acts, he was arrested in Kiev and convicted with confiscation of property.

Valuable personal items were confiscated during the arrest; diaries, scientific research, correspondence, as evidence of involvement in his large historical and pictorial collection, was destroyed.

For several days, the NKVD officers forced Pavel Platonovich to sign a “confession” about their counter-revolutionary actions.

After this, Potocki did not give any evidence and on August 27, 1938, according to the official version, died in a prison hospital from heart paralysis.

But documents show that the real cause of death was his brutal beating at the gates of the Lukyanovskaya prison in Kiev.

The fate of most of the Potocki collection is unknown, some of its copies are found in museums, libraries, archives of the entire former Union.

Almost all films of Soviet Ukraine, which introduced Ukrainian traditions and customs, were based on materials collected by P. Potocki.