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Khmelnytsky

Type Figure Region Ukraine Time c. 1595–1657 Also known as Bohdan Khmelnytsky、博格丹·赫梅利尼茨基、Hetman Khmelnytsky

Bohdan Khmelnytsky (c. 1595–1657) was a Zaporozhian Cossack leader who in 1648 rose in revolt against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, establishin…

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  1. c. 1595–1647Ukraine · UkraineBorn into a minor Ukrainian noble family, he had served in the Polish army. After his estate was seized by a Polish noble and his family humiliated, he turned to resistance, and around 1647 began contacting Cossacks and peasants to prepare an uprising.
  2. 1648–1653Chyhyryn · UkraineIn 1648 he led the Khmelnytsky Uprising, defeating Polish forces in battles at Korsun, Zamość, and elsewhere. He established a Cossack regime centered on Chyhyryn, seeking aid from the Crimean Tatars and Russia against Poland.
  3. 1654–1657Pereyaslav · UkraineIn January 1654 he convened a rada at Pereyaslav and concluded an agreement with representatives of the Russian tsar; the Cossacks swore allegiance to the tsar and accepted a military alliance, triggering the Russo-Polish War. In his final years he dealt with factional conflicts within the Cossacks and contradictions in foreign alliances, dying at Chyhyryn in August 1657.

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