Ivan Samoilovich - Hetman "of both sides of the Dnieper"
Taking advantage of the civil strife in the Right-Bank region, in the spring of 1674, the army of Ivan Samoilovich with the support of the army of the Belgorod governor Grigory Romodanovsky began a campaign against Chigirin, which was taken in a long siege.
Under these conditions, a council was convened in Pereyaslav, on which Mikhail Khanenko resigned hetman authority, and the Cossack foremen of the Right Bank proclaimed Samoylovich as a new hetman.
As a hetman of “both sides of the Dnieper”, Samoylovich was completely loyal to Moscow - he repeatedly participated in joint campaigns against Turkey, began the forced relocation of Ukrainians from Right-Bank Ukraine to Left-Bank.
Claimed to spread the hetman's power in Volyn and Western Ukraine. He expressed dissatisfaction with the prisoner between the Moscow kingdom and the Ottoman Empire, the Bakhchsarai peace in 1681. He repeatedly opposed the conclusion of the Eternal Peace of 1686, which legalized the division of Ukraine into two parts.
By the time of Hetman Samoylovich, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which had previously been under the rule of the Patriarch of Constantinople, was subordinate to the Moscow Patriarchate. He dreamed of creating the Ukrainian / Russian principality and making the hetman’s power hereditary.
After an unsuccessful joint Ukrainian-Moscow campaign against the Crimea in 1687, he was accused of “treason against Moscow”, removed from the hetmanship, arrested and sent into exile in Western Siberia, where he died.
Ivan Mazepa, who at one time was the general captain of Dauroshenko’s first, and then of Samoylovich, in the plot against which he took an active part, became the new hetman of the Left Bank.
Under these conditions, a council was convened in Pereyaslav, on which Mikhail Khanenko resigned hetman authority, and the Cossack foremen of the Right Bank proclaimed Samoylovich as a new hetman.
As a hetman of “both sides of the Dnieper”, Samoylovich was completely loyal to Moscow - he repeatedly participated in joint campaigns against Turkey, began the forced relocation of Ukrainians from Right-Bank Ukraine to Left-Bank.
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Claimed to spread the hetman's power in Volyn and Western Ukraine. He expressed dissatisfaction with the prisoner between the Moscow kingdom and the Ottoman Empire, the Bakhchsarai peace in 1681. He repeatedly opposed the conclusion of the Eternal Peace of 1686, which legalized the division of Ukraine into two parts.
By the time of Hetman Samoylovich, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which had previously been under the rule of the Patriarch of Constantinople, was subordinate to the Moscow Patriarchate. He dreamed of creating the Ukrainian / Russian principality and making the hetman’s power hereditary.
After an unsuccessful joint Ukrainian-Moscow campaign against the Crimea in 1687, he was accused of “treason against Moscow”, removed from the hetmanship, arrested and sent into exile in Western Siberia, where he died.
Ivan Mazepa, who at one time was the general captain of Dauroshenko’s first, and then of Samoylovich, in the plot against which he took an active part, became the new hetman of the Left Bank.
