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Yurii Khmelnytsky. Yurii Khmelnytsky ( (monastic name: Hedeon ), Ukrainian: Юрій Хмельницький, Polish: Jerzy Chmielnicki, Russian: Юрий Хмельницкий) (1641 – 1685 (?)), younger son of the famous Ukrainian Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky and brother of Tymofiy Khmelnytsky, was a Zaporozhian Cossack political and ...
Khmelnytsky, Yurii. Khmelnytsky, Yurii [Xmel’nyc’kyj, Jurij] (aka Khmelnychenko, Yuras), 1641–85. Hetman of Ukraine (1657, 1659–63) and hetman of Right-Bank Ukraine (1677–81, 1685); the younger son of Bohdan Khmelnytsky. His father, who hoped to establish a hereditary hetmancy, designated him as his successor after the death of his ...
Aug 12, 2015 · In Russia he has been viewed as a dangerous but important ally. He is seen as an enemy to Polish Catholics, and among Jews, as the perpetrator of a horrific massacre. Stories of Khmelnytsky juxtaposes literary accounts of Khmelnytsky that appeared in Ukrainian, Yiddish, Polish, Russian, and Hebrew.
The portrayal of Khmelnytsky is compared in three novels by popular writers of the period: Semen Ordivsky (Hryhorii Luzhnytsky), Yurii Lypa, and Yurii Kosach. Although in each case the literary portrait emphasizes Khmelnytsky's strong leadership and "masculine" virtues, there are also significant differences in the way the ruler is presented.
Khmelnytsky's legacy, either as nation builder or as antagonist, has inhibited inter-ethnic and political rapprochement at key moments throughout history and, as we see in recent conflicts, continues to affect Ukrainian, Jewish, Polish, and Russian national identity. 978-0-8047-9496-1.
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Introduction Bohdan Khmelnytsky as Protagonist: Between Hero and Villain. Amelia M. Glaser. In 1863 Mikhail Mikeshin, the artist renowned for designing the monuments to the “Millennium of Rus ʹ ” in Novgorod and to Catherine II in St. Petersburg, proposed a design for a statue of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, to be erected near Kyiv’s St. Sofia cathedral. 1 The year coincided with the Polish ...
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"The presented paper based on vol. VIII and IX of chronicle “Theatrum Europaeum” (“Theatre of Europe”) provides analysis of information that to one extent or another describes events of the times of Hetman Yurii Khmelnytsky.
