Ivan Samoylowych

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Ivan Samoylowych

Ivan Samojlowytsch ( Ukrainian Іван Самойлович , Russian Иван Самойлович , Ivan Samoylovich * about 1630 in Chodorków or Chodorkiw , Ukraine , then Poland-Lithuania ; † 1690 in Tobolsk , Russian empire ), a Ukrainian was Cossack , filing clerk and Ambassador of the Zaporozhye Cossacks in Moscow . From 1672 to 1687 he was a hetman in the left bank of Ukraine and from 1676 "Hetman on both sides of the Dnieper". His main opponent was Petro Doroshenko .

Ivan Samojlowytsch studied at the Kiev Mohyla Academy until 1648 . He served under Hetman Demjan Mnohohrischnyj 1668/69 as a colonel in the Chernigov regiment and then as a military judge ( heneralnyi suddia ). After Mnohohrischnyjs was deposed, he was elected on June 17, 1672 as his successor as the hetman of left-bank Ukraine. He carried out an absolutist rule and wanted to make the hetmanate hereditary. Therefore he also favored his sons through high posts and large estates. Under his reign there was a strong economic boom within his domain.

In 1674 Ivan Samojlowytsch fought against the hetman of the right bank Ukraine Petro Doroshenko , where he also received support from the former hetman of the right bank Ukraine Mychajlo Chanenko . After Chanenko was accused by Russia of renewed contact with Poland in 1677/1678 , Samojlowytsch had him  imprisoned in Baturyn , where he died after two years.

Samoylowytsch took part in the first Crimean campaign in the course of the Russo-Turkish War 1686-1700 and was blamed for its failure by the Russian prince Vasily Golitsyn . Since his despotism also met resistance among the Cossacks, he was accused of arbitrariness and corruption as well as treacherous contacts with the Crimean Khanate , and he was deposed with support from Moscow. His property was then confiscated and he was exiled to Tobolsk, where he died in 1690. After the unanimous election of the people, he was succeeded by Ivan Masepa, who was in the service of Samoylowytsch .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stählin, Karl: History of Russia from the beginnings to the present. Graz 1923, BIS 377f.
  2. ^ Kostomarow, Nikolai: Russian history in the life of the most important characters
  3. ^ Ernst Herrmann : History of the Russian State, Volume 3 , Hamburg, Friedrich Perthes, 1846, page 695 (accessed on March 26, 2016)
  4. ↑ Article on Samoilovych, Ivan in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine , accessed on March 26, 2016 (English)

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personal data
SURNAME Samoylowych, Ivan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Самойлович, Іван (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hetman
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Khodorkiv , Ukraine
DATE OF DEATH around January 18, 1690
Place of death Tobolsk , Russian Empire