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    Yurii Khmelnytsky

    Hetman of Ukraine

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  1. Biography. Hetman of Ukraine. Yurii Khmelnytsky was born in 1641 [1] 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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    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 ...

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  4. After Bohdan Khmelnytsky died in 1657, his sixteen-year-old son Yurii Khmelnytsky was elected as successor. Bohdan`s son was not only too young and inexperienced, but also clearly lacked the charisma and leadership qualities of his father.

  5. 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 ...

  6. The Cult of Strength: Khmelnytsky in the Literature of Ukrainian Nationalists During the 1930s and 1940s | Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising | Stanford Scholarship Online | Oxford Academic. Chapter.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Caught between conflicting military and political loyalties to Russians, Poles, and Turks, Yurii Khmelnytsky attempts to fight the Poles, who are trying to woo him into a strategic alliance; the Russians, interested in geopolitical control of the southern Slavic lands; and the Ottoman Turks, who use him as their puppet.

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