Ivan Sirko

Ivan Sirko
Ivan Sirko
	An imaginary representation of Sirko by Ilya Repin
Nicknames	Urus Shaitan (Rus' Devil); Kharakternyk; Zaporozhian Bogatyr
Born	1605; Merefa, Sloboda Ukraine, Tsardom of Russia; or; Murafa, Bracław Voivodeship, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Died	August 11, 1680 (aged 74–75); Hrushivka, Zaporozhian Host
Allegiance	Zaporozhian Host; Zaporozhian Sich; Left-bank Ukraine;
Service years	1620–1680
Rank	Kosh Otaman; Hetman (Honorary)
Conflicts	See list Polish–Ottoman War (1620–1621) Cossack raid on Istanbul (1620); Raid on Varna; Battle of Khotyn (1621); ; Thirty Years' War Siege of Dunkirk (1646) (?); ; Khmelnytsky Uprising Khmelnytsky's campaign Battle of Zhovti Vody; Battle of Korsun; Battle of Pyliavtsi; ; Battle of Zboriv (1649); Battle of Batih; Siege of Zhvanets; Siege of Uman (1654); ; Russo-Polish War (1654–1667) Tsar Alexei's campaign of 1654–1655 Siege of Uman (1655); ; Bohun Uprising; Right-bank uprising Siege of Buzhin (1664); Battle of Saradzhin (1664); ; ; The Ruin Left-bank uprising Sloboda–Dnieper campaign; ; Sich-Tsardom Crisis; ; Polish–Cossack–Tatar War; Russo-Turkish War (1672–1681) Chyhyryn campaign (1676); Chyhyryn campaign (1677); Chyhyryn campaign (1678); Stand on the Sich (1679); ; Cossack raids Cossack raid on Istanbul (1629); Siege of Azov (1637–1642); Sirko's campaigns Crimean blockade (1655); Ochakiv–Aslan campaign; Battle of Igren; Siege of Perekop (1663); Crimean campaign (1667); Crimean campaigns (1668); Siege of Chyhyryn (1668–1669); Siege of Ochakiv (1670); Battle of Kuialnyk; Sirko's Eastern campaign; Battle of Sich (1674); Crimean campaign (1675) Capture of Bakhchysarai; ; ; ; ;
Spouse	Sofia
Children	4

Ivan Dmytrovych Sirko (c. 1605 – August 11, 1680) was a Zaporozhian Cossack military leader, Koshovyi Otaman of the Zaporozhian Sich 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. He was undefeated in battle and during his career gained fame all over Europe for his exploits against the Ottoman Empire and Crimean Khanate.