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Revision as of 16:54, 23 November 2006 by Piotrus (talk | contribs) (fix cats)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Taras Fedorovych (Template:Lang-pl, Template:Lang-uk) was a hetman of the Cossacks.
He became the leader of non-registered Cossacks in 1629; immediatly afterwards he led a Cossack expedition to Crimea. In 1630 he became the leader of Cossack and peasant uprising against Poland ignited by ever increasing enserfement and exploitation of Ukrainian peasantry by szlachta (nobility) . He defeated the Commonwealth forces in two battles: at Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi and at Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi which forced the Commonwealth to accept the 1630 Treaty of Pereiaslav. Hetman Stanisław Koniecpolski demanded that Fedorovych should be turned over to the Commonwealth for a trial but Cossacks starshyna (leadership) refused; they however replaced Fedorovych as a hetman with Timofiy Orendarenko. Fedorovych, unhappy with such a turn of events, tried to raise more Cossacks against the Commonwealth but failed.
He took part in the Smolensk War between the Commonwelath and Russia (1632-1634), in 1634 and 1635 he yet again tried to convince the Cossacks to turn against the Poles, without success. In 1635 he negotiated with Moscow about resettlement of some Cossacks to Russia, and in 1636 in negotations about creating a Muscovite Cossack regiment; his propositions were discarded by Muscovites which did not want to antagonize their relations with the Commownealth at that time. His later whereabouts are unknown.
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