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Hetman of Zaporizhian Cossacks is a historical term that has multiple meanings.
Mazeppa, properly Mazepa, is an opera in three acts by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto was written by Victor Burenin and is based on Pushkin's poem Poltava, part of the cultural legacy of Mazeppa.
Perevolochna is a former fortress and town in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Cossack Hetmanate, and later a village in Poltava Oblast. Before the establishment of Kamianske Water Reservoir in the 1960s, here also existed a river crossing. The settlement was situated at the bank of the Dnieper near the mouth of Vorskla River, where a ford across Dnieper enabled people to cross the river, hence its name. The crossing Perevolochna – Mishuryn Rih was also a key crossing during the Battle of the Dnieper in October 1943.
Vasily Leontiyevich Kochubey was a statesman of the Cossack Hetmanate of Crimean Tatar descent. His tenure was characterized by Pro-Moscow policies and was cut short by his execution on Hetman Ivan Mazepa's orders. Kochubey's great-grandson was the eminent Imperial Statesman Viktor Kochubey. The family name is also spelled Kotchoubey (French) and Kotschoubey.
Pylyp Stepanovych Orlyk was a Zaporozhian Cossack starshyna, Hetman in exile, diplomat, secretary and close associate of Hetman Ivan Mazepa. He is the author of the Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk.
The Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk, formally titled as The Treaties and Resolutions of the Rights and Freedoms of the Zaporozhian Army, is a constitutional document written by the Hetman of Ukraine, Pylyp Orlyk, the Cossack elders and the Cossacks of the Zaporozhian Army on the 5 April 1710 in the city of Bender (Tighina) in the Principality of Moldavia. It is sometimes called the First Constitution of Ukraine.
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Pavlo Semenovych Hertsyk was a Ukrainian Cossack officer of Jewish origin, the colonel of the Poltava Regiment of the Cossack Hetmanate. He and his sons were important allies of Hetman Ivan Mazepa.
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Helena Stetkiewicz or Olena Vyhovska, was a second wife of Ivan Vyhovsky, Hetman of Zaporizhian Host in Cossack Hetmanate.
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Andriy Ivanovych Voynarovsky was a member of the Zaporozhian Army during 1701–1716. He is the nephew and heir of Hetman Ivan Mazepa through his maternal line.
Pylyp Orlyk's March on the Right-bank Ukraine was the military campaign of the Hetman Pylyp Orlyk on the Right-bank Ukraine in January–March 1711 in order to liberate its territory from Moscow's troops and to restore the hetman's power.
The Great Northern War in Ukraine (1708–1713) — war between the Tsardom of Russia on one hand and the Swedish Empire and the Ottoman Empire on the other.
Battle of Lysianka 1711 in February—March 1711 took place during the Pylyp Orlyk's campaign of 1711 against the Russian Tsardom and against Pro-Russian cossacks.
