Koliyivshchyna uprising
The Kolijiwschtschyna Uprising ( Ukrainian Коліївщина ) in 1768 was the last haidamaka - Uprising .
root cause
The uprising of the Hajdamaks, a group of Ukrainian peasants and Cossacks in right-bank Ukraine , was directed against the Polish feudal rule of the Szlachta in the Bracław Voivodeship and was a reaction to the Confederation of Bar . Anti-Catholic propaganda emanating from the region's Orthodox monasteries was another factor in the spread of the uprising.
course
The uprising was led by the Zaporozhian Cossack Maksym Salisnjak , who set up a rebel group of Zaporozhian Cossacks in the forest area of Cholodnyj Yar and, by the end of May 1768, brought the cities of Cherkassy , Smila , Korsun , Kaniw , Bohuslav , Zvenyhorodka and Lysyanka under his control.
The Cossack Ivan Gonta , who commanded a Cossack unit of the Voivode of the Kiev Voivodeship Franciszek Salezy Potocki , was supposed to fight the insurgents in front of Uman, but instead defected with his unit to the insurgents. The climax of the uprising was the occupation of the right bank trading center Uman on June 20 and 21, 1768 and the Uman massacre of Poles and Jews. After taking Uman, Salisnjak declared himself the new hetman of a restored hetmanate .
The uprising was suppressed by order of the Russian Empress Catherine II , who feared that the uprising might spill over to the left bank Ukraine, which is under her administration . She instructed her general Mikhail Kretschetnikow ( Russian Михаил Никитич Кречетников ) to suppress the rebellion. He ordered a regiment of Don Cossacks to Uman. The leader of the Don Cossacks made the rebels believe that he was their ally and invited them to a banquet on July 8, 1768, at which he had the Hajdamaks, including Maksym Salisnjak and Ivan Gonta, captured. The insurgents were then tried.
Aftermath
Numerous folk songs and legends on the subject were written in Ukraine. Taras Shevchenko's work Die Hajdamaks from 1841 is about the Kolijiwschtschyna uprising of the Hajdamaks.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article on the Koliivshchyna Rebellion in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on April 5, 2016
- ↑ Article on Zalizniak, Maksym in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine; accessed on April 5, 2016
- ↑ Article on Gonta, Ivan in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine; accessed on April 5, 2016