Ostap Hohol
Ostap (Evstafij) Hohol ( Ukrainian Остап (Євстафій) Гоголь ; * early 17th century in Hoholi , Podolia Voivodeship , Poland-Lithuania ; † January 9, 1679 in Dymer ) was a Cossack and between 1675 and 1679 hetman of the right bank of Ukraine .
Ostap Hohol was a member of the Volhyn nobility and Cossack leader in the Khmelnytskyi uprising . From 1658 until its dissolution in 1676 he was Colonel of the Mohyliv Podilskyi Regiment ( Dniester Regiment) and in 1649 and again in 1674 Colonel of the Vinnytsia Regiment. From 1676 on, he was the hetman of the right bank of Ukraine , succeeding Mychajlo Chanenko until his death in 1679.
Some historians consider Ostap to be an ancestor of Nikolai Gogol and a role model for his story Taras Bulba .
Individual evidence
- ^ Ostap Hohol Cossack - Hetman ; accessed on April 10, 2016 (Polish)
- ↑ Article on Hohol, Ostap in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on April 10, 2016 (English)
- ↑ Was Hetman Ostap Gogol the ancestor of NW Gogol? on the Gogol House website; accessed on April 10, 2016 (Russian)
- ↑ Polish roots GOGOL , novpol.org October 2000; accessed on April 10, 2016 (Russian)
- ^ Prototype of Gogols Taras Bulba - a distant ancestor of the writer, Hetman Ostap Gogol on gazeta.zn.ua; accessed on April 10, 2016 (Russian)
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| SURNAME | Hohol, Ostap |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Гоголь, Остап (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hetman of the right bank of Ukraine |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hoholi , Podolia Voivodeship , Poland-Lithuania |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1679 |
| Place of death | Dymer |