Left Bank Uprising or Bryukhovetsky Uprising was an uprising of Cossacks dissatisfied with the Andrusov truce against the tsarist government. A series of military failures of the Crimean-Cossack army led to the entry of the left-bank Ukraine into the Russian Tsardom, on the rights of autonomy
| Left Bank Uprising | |||||||
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 Letter from Hetman Ivan Bryukhovetsky to the Russian Tsar | |||||||
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.svg){kind=small} Russian Tsardom |
 Cossack Hetmanate Crimean Khanate | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Grigory Romodanovsky |
Ivan Bryukhovetsky †Petro DoroshenkoDemian Mnohohrishny | ||||||
Background
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A number of external and internal reasons led to the uprising.
In 1665, Hetman Ivan Bryukhovetsky signed an agreement with Moscow, according to which the number of tsarist troops on the territory of Ukraine was increased, and also the local population had to pay taxes to the Russian treasury
The Andrusovo truce caused discontent, concluded between Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which cemented the split of Ukraine along the Dnieper
Uprising
editIn early January 1668, Bryukhovetsky with general officers and colonels of various ranks, decided to free themselves from the tsarist power by swearing allegiance to the Turkish Sultan.They soon rebelled, killed or handed over Russian civil servants to the Tatars as prisoners, marking the beginning of the struggle.[1]
As soon as news of the rebellion reached Tsar Alexei, he sent an army under the command of Romadanovsky to Ukraine. Most of the Zaporozhian Cossacks were then in Kotelve.Romadanovsky laid siege to this settlement and took the city, having received many captive.
Bryukhovetsky, in his frivolity, having entered into an alliance with the Tatars, led the united army to Kotelv, but Petro Doroshenko blocked his way, as a result of which Bryukhovetsky was captured and later killed.[2]
After the murder of Bryukhovetsky, Petro Doroshenko declared himself hetman and led a united Cossack-Tatar army against Romadanovsky. Upon the arrival of the newly minted hetman in Chigirin, the Tatars, fearing the Russian army's campaign in Crimea, retreated to their lands. Romadanovsky finally defeated the hetman's troops and burned a large city to intimidate the Zaporozhians.[3]
Aftermath
editThe uprising was completely defeated from a military point of view.[4] Politically, the Russians also achieved success, some provisions of previous laws were revised, but Moscow still held the Cossacks with an iron grip because it could keep its garrisons, for example, in 1672 Hetman Mnohohrishny was overthrow and replaced with a more compliant Samoylovich.[5]
References
edit- ^ Bantysh-Kamensky 1822, p. 56-57.
- ^ Bantysh-Kamensky 1822, pp. 59–60.
- ^ Bantysh-Kamensky 1822, p. 61.
- ^ Babulin 2021.
- ^ Perrie 2006, pp. 509–510.
Bibliography
edit- Babulin, Igor (2021). Война за возвращение Украины 1668-1669 [War for the return of Ukraine 1668-1669] (in Russian). Moscow: Русские витязи. ISBN 978-5-907245-37-2.
- Bantysh-Kamensky, Dmitry (1822). История малой России, со времен присоединения при Царе Алексее Михайловиче. Ч.2 [History of Little Russia, from the time of annexation under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. Part 2] (in Russian). Moscow.
- Perrie, Maurren (2006). The Cambridge history of Russia. Volume 1: From early Rus' to 1689. Cambridge university Press. ISBN 0-521-81227-5.