Yurii Khmelnytsky
Yurii Khmelnytsky | |
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Anonymous portrait, 17th century | |
| Hetman of Zaporizhian Host | |
| In office 27 August 1657 – 21 October 1657 | |
| Preceded by | Bohdan Khmelnytsky |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Vyhovsky |
| In office 17 October 1659 – 1663 | |
| Preceded by | Ivan Vyhovsky |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Briukhovetsky (in Left-bank Ukraine) Pavlo Teteria (in Right-bank Ukraine) |
| Hetman of Right-bank Ukraine | |
| In office 1678–1681 | |
| Preceded by | Petro Doroshenko |
| Succeeded by | George Ducas |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1641 |
| Died | 1685 (disputed) |
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| Alma mater | Kyiv Mohyla Academy |
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Yurii Khmelnytsky (Ruthenian: Юрый Хмелницкій / Юрий Хмелницкий / Юрій Хмелницкій; Ukrainian: Юрій Хмельницький, Polish: Jerzy Chmielnicki, Russian: Юрий Хмельницкий), monastic name Hedeon (1641 – 1685(?)), 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.