Pavlo Teterja

Pavlo Teterja

Pavlo Teterja ( Ukrainian Павло Тетеря ; * around 1620 in Perejaslaw ; † April 1671 in Adrianople ) was a hetman of the right-wing Ukraine between 1662 and 1665. He studied at the United School in Minsk and at the Kiev Mohyla Academy . On 16th September 1658 he joined, together with the Cossack leaders Ivan Vyhovsky and Yuri Nemyrytsch in Ukrainian Hadiach with the representatives of Poland-Lithuania Stanisław Bieniewski and Kazimierz Jewłaszewski the Treaty of Hadiach from where the Cossacks allied himself with the Polish-Lithuanian nobility Republic .

In October 1662, after the abdication of the hetman Yury Khmelnyzkyj , Teterja was elected hetman of the right bank of Ukraine in the council of Chyhyryn . He continued the political work of Ivan Wyhowskyj and sought rapprochement with the Polish-Lithuanian empire. At the same time he tried to unite the right and left hetmanates on the Dnieper under his rule. At the beginning of 1663 Teterjas Cossacks invaded the left bank of the Ukraine for the first time together with the Polish-Lithuanian troops. From November 1663 to January 1664, Cossack troops and Polish-Tatar units jointly occupied most of the left bank of Ukraine. However, operations soon came to a standstill during the siege of Gluchow . In the rear of the united army, a revolt against the Polish nobility broke out on the right bank of the Ukraine, which forced Teterja to return with his Cossacks. Even the Polish troops, under pressure from Russian troops under Prince Grigori Romodanowski and the regiments of the Moscow-friendly hetman Ivan Brjuchowezkyj, withdrew to Poland after several defeats via Chernigov and Lithuania .

In the spring of 1664, Tetejra, with the help of the Polish-Lithuanian troops, managed to force Brjuchowezkyj and the Russian troops to retreat to the left bank. At the turn of the year Teterja tried to defeat his domestic opponents, especially Colonel Ivan Serbin, Vasily Droszdenko and S. Oparu. In July 1665, Teterja finally gave up the further struggle for power and appointed Mychailo Chanenko as the new commander. But Teterja did not renounce his hetmanate and then lived in Warsaw . In 1669 he came into conflict with Poland and changed sides, he then lived for some time in exile with the Grand Duke of Moldova in Iași . In spring 1670 he came into contact with the Sublime Porte in Adrianople and convinced the Sultan to start a war against Poland. Mehmed IV initially gave him a nominal sanjak but then had him poisoned.

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1. ↑ ^{a b} Article on Teteria, Pavlo in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine , accessed on April 1, 2016 (English)
2. ↑ E. Net -. 1564 - Юрій-Гедеон Венжик Хмельницький ; accessed on April 1, 2016 (Ukrainian)