Kryschtof Kosynskyj

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Kryschtof Kosynskyj

Kryschtof Kosynskyj ( Ukrainian Криштоф Косинський , Polish Krzysztof Kosiński ; * 1545 in Podlachia , Kingdom of Poland ; † May 1593 near Cherkassy ) was the Hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossacks in 1586 and the Hetman of the Registered Cossacks in Ukraine in the early 1590s .

Kosynsky was the leader of the first great revolt of the Ukrainian peasants and Cossacks against the Polish nobility from 1591 to 1593 . He died during the siege of Cherkassy in May 1593.

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  1. Article on Kosynsky, Kryshtof in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on April 11, 2016