Ivan Bohun

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Ivan Bohun

Ivan Bohun ( Ukrainian : Іван Богун ., Scientific transliteration : Ivan Bohun ; Russian : Иван Богун / Ivan Bogun ; Polish : Ivan Bohun ; * probably in 1618 in Bratslav , † 17 February 1664 in Novhorod-Siverskyi ) was a Polkownyk the Zaporozhye Cossacks and fought in the Khmelnytskyi uprising on the side of his friend Bohdan Khmelnytskyi for a Cossack - Hetmanat .

Life

Bohun in the battle of Berestechko; Mykola Ivasyuk 1900

Ivan Bohun was born in 1618 to a Ukrainian Szlachta family in Brazlaw, Ukraine . He took part in all the important battles of the Khmelnytskyi uprising and played a prominent role in the battle of Berestechko in 1651. First for the Treaty of Pereiaslav with Tsarist Russia , he turned against him after the death of Khmelnytskyi.

After the hetman Ivan Wyhowskyj had concluded the Treaty of Hadjatsch with the Polish-Lithuanian aristocratic republic in 1658, Bohun led an armed uprising in 1659 in right-wing Ukraine against Iwan Wyhowskyj and the Polish forces, especially at Brazlaw, Uman and in the Battle of Konotop .

In 1662 he was arrested by the Poles and imprisoned in the Marienburg fortress . A year later he was released to take part in return in the Russo-Polish War 1654-1667 on the part of Poland against Russia. During the retreat after the unsuccessful siege of Hluchiw , he was arrested on February 17, 1664, accused of providing important military information to the beleaguered Russian garrison and executed as a high treason by a firing squad.

Aftermath

The novel With Fire and Sword (Polish Ogniem i mieczem ) by the Polish Nobel Prize laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz is about the Cossack uprising under Khmelnyzkyj. In the 1999 film adaptation of the Polish director Jerzy Hoffman , the character of Jurko Bohun is based on the historical figure of Iwan Bohun.

In the Ukrainian city of Shovti Vody there is an equestrian statue of the heroes of the war of liberation of the Ukrainian people , which represents the three Cossacks Maksym Krywonis , Bohdan Khmelnyzkyj and Ivan Bohun.

A Pomornik-class air-cushion landing ship of the Ukrainian Navy was named Iwan Bohun (U421) .

The death of Ivan Bohun is celebrated annually in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv .

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  • Ivan Bohun.jpg
  • Bohun vs Czernecki battle.jpg
  • Ivan Bohun Vinnytsia 1651 G2.jpg

Web links

Commons : Iwan Bohun  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography of the Cossack Colonel Ivan Bohun (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ Article Iwan Bohun in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Celebrations to commemorate the death of Bohun in Lviv (Russian)

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Ukrainian Wikipedia has an article on Iwan Bohun (U421) under Іван Богун (десантний корабель)
personal data
SURNAME Bohun, Ivan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Іван Богун (Ukrainian); Ива́н Богу́н (Russian); Ivan Bohun (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian freedom fighter
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1618
PLACE OF BIRTH Brazlaw
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1664
Place of death Novhorod-Siverskyi