Equestrian statue of Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595-1657), the first Cossack Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host, at Sophia Square in Kiev, Ukraine
Bohdan Zynovii Mykhailovych Khmelnytskyi (c. 1595 - 6 August 1657) was a Ruthenian military commander and Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host, which was then under the suzerainty of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He led an uprising against the Commonwealth and its magnates (1648-1654) that resulted in the creation of an independent Ruthenian Cossack state. In 1654, he concluded the Treaty of Pereyaslav with the Russian Tsar and allied the Cossack Hetmanate with Tsardom of Russia, thus placing central Ruthenia under Russian protection. During the uprising the Cossacks led a massacre of thousands of Jewish people during 1648-1649 as one of the more traumatic events in the history of the Jews in Ukraine and Ukrainian nationalism.
Size: 5616px × 3744px
Location: Monument to Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Sophia Square, Kiev, Ukraine, Europe
Photo credit: © DE ROCKER / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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