Editing Maxim Berezovsky (section)

===Death===
[[File:Maxim Berezovsky - document relating to his burial.jpg|thumb|The document relating to Berezovsky's burial]]
Berezovsky received his last salary in February 1777.{{sfn|Shumilina|2018}} The Russian statesman [[Grigory Potemkin]] invited him to work as the director of a music academy in [[Kremenchuk]] (now in modern Ukraine),{{sfn|Kuzma|2001}} but on 24 March (2 April [[Gregorian calendar|N.S.]]) 1777, Berezovsky&nbsp;died in Saint Petersburg.{{sfn|Ritzarev|2006|p=x}}

Over time, the details of Berezovsky's death were embellished, for instance relating that he became alcoholic, and committed suicide.<ref name="Pry" /> No records to indicate that he died by this means are known.{{sfn|Shumilina|2015|p=83}} He is finally mentioned after his death, when the issue of his estate is discussed: "Composer Maxim Berezovsky died on the 24th day of this month; The salary he was owed is due to be paid, but since there is nothing left after his death, and there is nothing to bury the body, then please, your highness, give his salary to the court singer Yakov Timchenko...."{{sfn|Shumilina|2015|p=83}} According to ''Muzyka'' and ''[[The Day (Kyiv)|The Day]]'', the story that [[Catherine II]] secretly ordered the papers in Berezovsky's rooms to be burnt after his death are among the "myths and legends" surrounding his biography.<ref name="Rud" /><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Golynska |first1=Olga |title=Максим Березовський і Кирило Карабиць |trans-title=Maxim Berezovsky and Kyrylo Karabits |journal=Журнал "Музика" |trans-journal=Journal "Music" |date=29 December 2020 |url=http://mus.art.co.ua/maksym-berezovs-kyy-i-kyrylo-karabyts/ |access-date=4 September 2024}}</ref>

Bolkhovitinov wrote in his 1804 biography of Berezovsky that "hypochondria" caused Berezovsky to "stab himself to death".<ref name="Pry" /> His suicide, taken as fact from the early 19th century, may have happened because of debt problems, as opposed to earlier theories such as his supposed poor treatment by the imperial court.<ref name="Tar" /> According to the Russian and Israeli [[musicologist]] {{Ill|Marina Ritzarev|ru|Рыцарева, Марина Григорьевна}}, Berezovsky died of a fever.<ref name="Pry">{{cite web |last1=Pryashnikova |first1=Margarita |title=Maxim Berezovsky (ca.1745–1777): Secular Music (Pratum Integrum Orchestra) |url=https://media.nativedsd.com/storage/nativedsd.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/02181630/CM0022003.pdf |publisher=Caro Mitus |access-date=11 October 2023 |format=CD notes}}</ref>