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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 older son, Tymish ...
Yurii Khmelnytsky was born in 1641 in Subotiv near Chyhyryn in central Ukraine. In 1659, the Cossack Rada elected the 17-year-old Yurii as their hetman in Bila Tserkva, replacing the deposed Ivan Vyhovsky.
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Aug 12, 2015 · Stories of Khmelnytsky juxtaposes literary accounts of Khmelnytsky that appeared in Ukrainian, Yiddish, Polish, Russian, and Hebrew. The twelve chapters in this edited volume of literary studies collectively illustrate how a figure can simultaneously remain a hero, traitor and villain, from the event’s immediate aftermath to the twenty-first ...
The portrayal of Khmelnytsky is compared in three novels by popular writers of the period: Semen Ordivsky (Hryhorii Luzhnytsky), Iurii Lypa and Iurii 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.
Thematically and chronologically, the closest of Kosach’s works to his Day of Rage is his historical tragedy Diistvo pro Yuriia-Peremozhtsia (Drama about Yurii the Winner), a Macbethian play about the last days of Khmelnytsky’s son Yurii (1641–1685). This work also has two prominent Jewish figures, central to the tragedy.
Khmelnytsky's place of birth has not been determined for certain. Little more is known about Khmelnytsky's education. Apparently, he received his elementary schooling in Ukrainian, and his secondary and higher education in Polish at a Jesuit college, possibly in Jarosław, but more probably in Lviv. He completed his schooling before 1620 and ...
