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Pintea the Brave (by the name Pintea Viteazul, the real name Grigor Pinto - the room, Grigore Pintea, February 25, 1670, with the village Megoaza (room Măgoaja), the district Cluj, Transylvania - August 14, 1703, Baia Mare, Maramoroshchina, Romania) - the leader of the Opryshki (Haiduk) detachment of Romanian descent. Participant of a corrupt rebellion. He is sung in Romanian and Ukrainian (Transcarpathian) folklore. According to various sources, he received good education, knew several languages, traveled to Europe. According to his contemporaries, he talked about his involvement in clashes with the Tatars. After the conquest of Transylvania, the Habsburgs (1687) served in the Austrian garrison. According to another version, on May 6, 1689 Transylvanian prince Mihai Apafi I granted him the noble title of Pintta de Gollomezio (Grigore Pintea de Hollómez). It is unknown what prompted him to escape from the army (Romanian historians write about the conflict with Gregory Pinty with the local suburbs), but in 1694 the first armed attack of the Opryshki (guerrillas) detachment under the leadership of Pintti was recorded. In a letter from the Byzantine governor of Miklosh Bethelen of September 16, 1695 referred to the attack of Pinty with 35 accomplices on merchants in the Maramoros mountains In the reports to Vienna, the authorities reported on the support that Pintti provided to the peasants. June 21, 1698 Pinthe attacked the castle of Rhône near the Polish border. The number of deaths then was 250 people (Pinty's squad consisted of about 120 well-armed people). On the fight against Opryshki Pinthe was issued several rescript of the emperor Leopold I (he was declared outlawed). January 2, 1700 - Pintu was caught near the city of Satu-Mare (Satmar), but a month later, General von Lovenburg issued him from the Satmar prison under the promise of returning the goods to looted Greek merchants (which he did not comply with). 1701 - a rescript of the emperor Leopold with a promise of compensation for 500 thalers to the one who imprisoned Grigor Pintu (one of the copies of the corresponding announcement was recorded in the Transcarpathian regional state archives) [1]. 1703 - Grigor Pintya joined the antigabsburg uprising of the Kuruks under the leadership of Ferenc Rakoki II. Rakotsi gave Pinthi, whom he called "Brave", the title of captain and appointed leader of the uprising in the territories of Maramoros and Satmar's zhup. In spring, in the hands of the Chickpeas were already Satmar, Dezh, Bistrita and Sigit. In August, the rebels seized the main city of Maramoroshchyna - Baia Mare, which contained the Tzarist treasury. Captain Pinta the Brave died during an attack on Baia Mare. He was shot dead near the butcher's tower. There are different versions of the death of the former opryshka. On one, on August 14, he died from the hands of his former comrades. According to another, August 14, Pintya was only wounded and captured, and on August 22 he was shot. It is known that the captain was buried under walls without proper honors as a state offender. Grigor Pinty in folklore The pint of the Brave was popular among the serfs - both Romanians [2] and Rusyns. He became "Marmaros Robin Hood", his feats are sung in songs and tales, which tell how Pinta was taking money from the rich and handing it to the poor. Also known legends "About Pinty-Captain", "As Pinta got power and how it lost", "On the life and death of Pinthe", "Velyatin - in honor of Pinty", "As Pinta passed his power to Dovbushev", and a singer-chronicle about Pint, recorded by Ivan Senk in different villages of Khust, Mizhhir, Vynohradiv and Irshava districts of Zakarpattya in 1968-1969 Legends say that Grigor Pinta was fascinated and invulnerable to all types of weapons, and he could only be killed by a silver bullet. In the mountain of Gute, near the village of Kricheşti (Créceşti), Pintus the Brave and his people allegedly dug a cave where they stored gold and weapons. They say that the entrance to the cave, closed by an iron door, can be seen every seven years. In the old wooden church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker of the Romanian village of Budeshti still keep a shirt, chain mail and a helmet of Pintus the Hopper, and in the historical museum of Baia Mare - his weapons and harness.

Monument as a monument. He went to look, took a picture and went on.