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Pavlo Teteria (Ukrainian: Павло Тетеря; Polish: Paweł Morzkowski herbu Ślepowron; c. 1620 – 1671) was Hetman of Right-bank Ukraine (1663–1665). His real name is Pavlo Morzhkovsky. Before his hetmancy he served in a number of high positions under Bohdan Khmelnytsky, and Ivan Vyhovsky.
Teteria was the hetman of Right-Bank Ukraine in 1663–5. In late 1663 and early 1664 he participated in Jan II Casimir Vasa's campaign in Left-Bank Ukraine. He assisted Stefan Czarniecki's Polish and Tatar forces in fighting against Cossack-led peasant uprisings in Right-Bank Ukraine.
The treaty was concluded in April in Moscow by the Cossacks Samiilo Bohdanovych-Zarudny and Pavlo Teteria, and by Aleksey Trubetskoy, Vasilii Buturlin, and other boyars. As a result of the treaty, the Zaporozhian Host became an autonomous Hetmanate within the Russian state. The treaty also led to the Russo-Polish War of 1654–1667. The Ruin
Paweł Tetera (Pavlo Teteria) was from Volhynian Orthodox noble family called Morzkowscy. Bohdan Chmielnicki (Bohdan Khmelnytsky) was probably his godfather. In his youth he acquired solid education, which has paid off in his future. Initially, he worked in municipal office in Łuck (Lutsk).
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Vyhovsky was born in his family estate of Vyhiv, near Ovruch in the Kyiv Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, a son of Ostap Vyhovsky, a vicegerent of the Kyiv fortress under voivode Adam Kisiel and an Orthodox nobleman from the Kyiv region. There is also a possibility that the birth occurred at another family estate, Hoholiv, located...
Vyhovsky studied at the Kyiv Brotherhood Collegium and excelled in languages (including Church Slavonic, Polish, Latin and Russian, in addition to Ukrainian) and calligraphy. He later was the main financial supporter of the Collegium.
In Polish military service, Vyhovsky was captured by Khmelnystsky's rebel Cossack forces at the Battle of Zhovti Vody in May 1648, he was freed on account of his education and experience and rose to become secretary-general or chancellor (Ukrainian: генеральний писар, romanized: heneralnyi pysar) of the Cossacks and one of Khmelnytsky's closest adv...
Subtelny, Orest (1988). Ukraine: A History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0802058086.Pavlo Teteria (Ukrainian: Павло́ Тете́ря; Russian: Па́вел Ива́нович Тете́ря, Polish language: Paweł Morzkowski herbu Ślepowron ) (born ? – died 1670 in Adrianopolis) was Hetman of Right-bank Ukraine (1663–1665). Before his hetmancy he served in a number of high positions under Bohdan...
Under Hetman Pavlo Teteria, Doroshenko held the post of general osaul (1663–4) and then colonel of Cherkasy (1665). In October 1665 the Council of Officers in Chyhyryn elected him acting hetman, and in January 1666, hetman of Right-Bank Ukraine. Doroshenko's main aim was to restore the Hetman state on both banks of the Dnipro River.
