Danylo Apostol
Danylo Pawlowytsch Apostol ( Ukrainian Данило Апостол ; * December 14, 1654 in Sorochynzi , Hetmanat ; † January 28, 1734 there ) was the Hetman of the Cossacks in left-bank Ukraine between 1727 and 1734 .
Life
Danylo Apostol was Colonel in the Myrhorod Regiment from 1683 to 1727 . At the beginning of the Great Northern War he was in opposition to Iwan Masepa and the Swedes, but later supported them briefly until November 1708. Then he left Masepa and the King of Sweden Charles XII. again and allied again with the Russian Tsar Peter I , at whose side he fought in July 1709 in the Battle of Poltava . With his army he went unsuccessfully against the Ottomans in the Prut campaign in 1711 . After the Great Northern War, he participated with his Cossacks in 1722 the campaign of the Russian emperor against Persia and lost revenue at the Persian fortress Derbent one eye.
In the years 1723/25 Apostol was accused by the Cossacks of having joined the hetman Pavlo Polubotok , but was supported by Alexander Menshikov , with whose help he was elected hetman of the left bank of Ukraine on October 1, 1727.
Although the Russian government significantly curtailed the hetman's powers in 1728, he was able to achieve much as a hetman. So he reformed the judicial system and improved the Cossack administration. His grave is in the Transfiguration Church in Velyki Sorochyntsi , which was built on his initiative in the style of the Ukrainian Baroque .
Web links
- Ukraine: A History, 4th Edition , University of Toronto Press, November 10, 2009 - 888 pages
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article on Apostol, Danylo in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on April 11, 2016
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Apostol, Danylo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Apostol, Danylo Pavlovich (full name); Апостол, Данило (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hetman of Ukraine |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1654 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sorochynzi , Hetmanat |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1734 |
| Place of death | Sorochynzi , Hetmanat |