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Khmelnitsky, 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, Khmelnitsky fought at the Battle of Cecora (1620) and was taken prisoner to Istanbul for two years.

Enrolled as a registered Cossack, he was a military chancellor during the Cossack revolts of 1637 and 1638. In 1646 he took part in a Cossack delegation to King Wladyslaw IV, who sought to win the Cossacks over to his secret plans for a war against the Ottomans.

In 1647 a magnate's servitor attacked Khmelnitsky's estate.

This bibliography, compiled in collaboration with Professor Taras Koznarsky, details key works of literature, folklore, and early historiography featuring.

Brumberg seems most partisan in his characterization of Bohdan Khmelnytsky and the polity (where we call it a state or not) that emerged from.

Bohdan Khmelnytsky (c.

Historians managed to find out that Bogdan Khmelnytsky was born on December 27, 1595 (January 6, 1596 according to the new calendar) in the village of Subotovo.

Bohdan Khmelnytsky is born in the village of Subotiv, near.

Khmelnitsky found no redress. Arrested in November 1647, he escaped and fled to the traditional Cossack stronghold, or Sich, where he was proclaimed hetman in February 1648. He received support from the Crimean Khanate, and in May Khmelnitsky defeated the Polish armies sent against him.

The king died in that month, throwing the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, an elective mon