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This is a list of armed conflicts between Ukrainian states or national movements on the one hand, and various incarnations of the Russian state on the other.
| This article's factual accuracy is disputed .(October 2022) |
This is a list of armed conflicts between Ukrainian states or national movements on the one hand, and various incarnations of the Russian state on the other.
Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa was a Ukrainian military, political, and civic leader who served as the Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host and the Left-bank Ukraine in 1687–1708. The historical events of Mazepa's life have inspired many literary, artistic and musical works. He was famous as a patron of the arts.
Hetman of Zaporizhian Cossacks is a historical term that has multiple meanings.
Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny was a political and civic leader, who was a Hetman of Ukrainian Cossacks from 1616 to 1622. During his tenure, he transformed Zaporozhian Cossacks from irregular military troops into a regular army and improved relations between the Cossacks, the Orthodox clergy and peasants of Ukraine, which would later contribute to the establishment of a modern Ukrainian national consciousness. A military leader of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth both on land and sea, Sahaidachny is best known for the significant role his troops played in the Battle of Khotyn against the Ottoman Empire in 1621, as well as the Polish Prince Władysław IV Vasa's attempt to usurp the Russian throne in 1618.
The Cossack Hetmanate, officially the Zaporozhian Host or Army of Zaporozhia, is a historical term for the 17th-18th centuries Ukrainian Cossack state located in central Ukraine. It existed between 1649 and 1764, although its administrative-judicial system persisted until 1782.
Petro Dorofiyovich Doroshenko was a Cossack political and military leader, Hetman of Right-bank Ukraine (1665–1672) and a Russian voivode.
Yurii Khmelnytsky, younger son of the famous Ukrainian Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky and brother of Tymofiy Khmelnytsky, was a Zaporozhian Cossack political and military leader. Although he spent half of his adult life as a monk and archimandrite, he also was Hetman of Ukraine on several occasions — in 1659-1660 and 1678–1681 and starost of Hadiach, becoming one of the most well-known Ukrainian politicians of the "Ruin" period for the Cossack Hetmanate.
Ivan Sirko was a Ukrainian Cossack military leader, Koshovyi Otaman of the Zaporozhian Host and putative co-author of the famous semi-legendary Cossack letter to the Ottoman sultan that inspired the major painting Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks by the 19th-century artist Ilya Repin.
The Russo-Polish War of 1654–1667, also called the Thirteen Years' War, Muscovite War of 1654-1667 and the First Northern War, was a major conflict between the Tsardom of Russia and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Between 1655 and 1660, the Swedish invasion was also fought in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and so the period became known in Poland as "The Deluge" or Swedish Deluge.
The Ruin is a historical term introduced by the Cossack chronicle writer Samiilo Velychko (1670–1728) for the political situation in Ukrainian history during the second half of the 17th century.
Ivan Briukhovetsky was a hetman of Left-bank Ukraine from 1663 to 1668. In the early years of rule his was positioned as pro-Russian policies incited a rebellion which he later joined in an attempt to salvage his reputation and authority. Later leader of the Anti-Moscow uprising. His assessments as a rule differ in the part of Ukrainian historians which are supporters Petro Doroshenko.
The Polish–Cossack–Tatar War (1666–1671) was fought between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman-allied states of the Cossack Hetmanate and the Crimean Khanate. It was one of the aftermaths of the Muscovite–Polish War (1654–1667) and a prelude to the Ottoman–Polish War (1672–1676).
Acting hetman or appointed hetman was a title during the 17th and 18th centuries in the Cossack Hetmanate. The acting hetman was the governing authority in the Cossack Hetmanate temporarily substituted for the Hetman.
Demian Ihnatovych (Mnohohrishny) (Ukrainian: Дем'ян Многогрішний) (1621, Korop – 1703) was the Hetman of Left-bank Ukraine from 1669 to 1672. See The Ruin (Ukrainian history)
Stefan Kunicki was a Ruthenian military commander and hetman of Right-bank Ukraine. He was also a member of the Polish nobility.
Ottoman Ukraine, Khan Ukraine, Hanshchyna is a historical term for right-bank Ukraine, also known by its Turkic name Yedisan. The first recorded use of the term Khanska Ukraina are traced to 1737 when the Russian secret-agent Lupul urged Empress Anna of Russia to attack Ottoman Ukraine.
The Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host was the head of state of the Cossack Hetmanate. The office was abolished by the Russian government in 1764.
The Muscovite–Ukrainian War (1658–1659) was an armed conflict from September 21, 1658, to October 17, 1659, between the Cossack Hetmanate led by Ivan Vyhovsky and the Tsardom of Muscovy. It began with Muscovite intervention in internal Ukrainian struggles. Military action was conducted in left-bank Ukraine, east of the Dnieper.
The Muscovite–Ukrainian War (1674–1676) was an armed conflict that lasted from 1674 to 1676, between Ukraine, led by Hetman Petro Doroshenko with Ottoman empire and Crimean Khanate allies, and the Moscow State, supported by local separatists.
The Battle of Kalnyk took place on 21 October 1671, during the Polish-Cossack-Tatar war of 1666-1671. The Polish crown hetman Jan Sobieski defeated the Cossack-Tatar army, which was coming to the aid of Kalnik, besieged by the Poles. Despite the victory, Sobieski failed to take Kalnik and retreated to Bratslav.
The Assalut of Yelets was the capture of the Moscow fortress by the Cossacks of Hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny at the beginning of the campaign against Moscow. The Cossacks destroyed a powerful garrison that could have threatened the rear of the army and took a large ransom from the townspeople.
