Ivan Wyhowskyj

Ivan Wyhowskyj

Ivan Ostafijowytsch Wyhowskyj ( Ukrainian Іван Остафійович Виговський ; * 1608 in Ovrutsch ; † March 16, 1664 in Vilkhovets ) was between 1657 and 1659 a hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks and between 1659 and 1664 the Voivode of the Voivodeship .

At the Battle of Schowti Vody at the beginning of the Khmelnytskyi uprising against Polish rule, Wyhowskyj was still in Polish service and was captured by the Cossacks after the battle. Due to his education and experience he was released and he became one of the closest advisers and successor to Bohdan Khmelnyzkyj . He had signed an alliance treaty with Russia , but Wyhowskyj pursued a completely opposite policy and sought an understanding with the Polish crown. This promised the Cossack elite privileges, so that Wyhowskyj switched sides in the Russo-Polish War and concluded the Hadjatsch Treaty with Poland.

This action led to a bloody civil war (known as The Ruin ) within the Cossack ranks , as broad sections of the population strictly refused to return to the rule of Poland. In addition, Wyhowskyj's change of sides led to a resumption of the hostilities between the Poles and the Russians, which had been suspended since the armistice in Vilnius . Wyhowskyj's attempts to conquer the city ​​of Kiev , held by the Russians, failed, although on July 8, 1659, together with the Crimean Tatars, he was successful against the Russians at Konotop . However, this did not bring him any political pluses, so that he was soon overthrown on a Cossack Rada and had to flee.

Several years later he tried to intervene again in politics in the now split off right-wing Ukraine and dispute the position of the hetman Pavlo Teterja . Then he was shot by the Poles in 1664.

Web links

• Article on Vyhovsky, Ivan in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine (English)

literature

• Коваленко Сергій. Виговський Іван // Україна під булавою Богдана Хмельницького. Енциклопедія у 3-х томах. Том 1. - Київ: Видавництво "Стікс", 2007.