Prilog nastoji rasvijetliti dio privatnoga života negdanjega hrvatskog bana Nikole Tomašića – točnije njegove bračne veze s Marijom Gluhak i Paulom Gaj. Možda to i ne bi bilo vrijedno prikazivanja da Tomašić zbog drugoga braka nije odlučio prijeći na pravoslavlje i oženiti se znatno mlađom odabranicom koja je u to vrijeme slovila za jednu od zagrebačkih ljepotica, što je izazvalo velik odjek u višim društvenim krugovima onoga doba. U članku se pored činjenica razloženih na temelju izvornih arhivskih vrela te dostupne literature vjerojatno prvi put široj javnosti podastiru i slikovni prikazi ženskih aktera ovih zbivanja. The contribution endeavours to shed light on one part of the private life of the Croatian ban, Nikola Tomašić – more precisely, his marriages to Marija Gluhak and Paula Gaj. Perhaps this topic would be irrelevant if Tomašić had not decided to convert to Orthodoxy due to his second marriage and to a much younger woman who at that time was known as one of Zagreb's beauties, which led to a significant reaction in the higher social circles of the time. Original archival sources and the available literature were used to create a narrative and, probably for the first time, the article presents to the general public pictures of the female actors in these events.