Article: Khmelnytsky, Bohdan (c. 15951657)

KHMELNYTSKY, BOHDAN (c. 1595 1657)

KHMELNYTSKY, BOHDAN (c. 1595 1657), hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossack Host (1648 1657) and founder of the Hetmanate (Cossack state). Born into a family of Orthodox petty gentry, Khmelnytsky received a Jesuit education. Khmelnytsky took part in the Battle of Cecora (1620) and was taken as a prisoner to Istanbul for two years. He enlisted in the Chyhyryn Cossack regiment near his family holding of Subotiv and emerged during the Cossack revolts of 1637 1638 as military chancellor of the Zaporozhian Host, signing the capitulation of 27 December 1637. It is possible that he served among Cossack mercenary troops in France in ...

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