13 Facts About Pavlo Teteria

Pavlo Teteria was one of the Ukrainian delegates that were sent to conduct the Treaty of Pereyaslav.

Pavlo Teteria participated with the Poles in a campaign into Left-Bank Ukraine, but in 1665 he abdicated because of political and social unrests in Right-bank.

Pavlo Teteria fled to Poland, but eventually came into conflict with the Polish nobility and left for Turkey, where he died plotting an invasion of Poland.

Pavlo Teteria was the son in law of hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, when he married his daughter Olena Khmelnytsky in 1660.

Pavlo Teteria was educated at the Kyivan Mohyla College and he was member of the Lviv Dormition Brotherhood.

Pavlo Teteria joined the Cossack army when the Khmelnytsky Uprising broke out in 1648.

Pavlo Teteria began his official service as a regimental secretary for the Pereyaslav regiment.

Pavlo Teteria was part of the delegation that accompanied Tymofiy Khmelnytsky to Iasi to marry Ruxandra the daughter of the Moldavian Voivode Vasile Lupu.

When Vyhovsky was proclaimed hetman, Pavlo Teteria was appointed as the hetman's chancellor secretary.

Pavlo Teteria participated in the negotiations of the Treaty of Hadiach, which would restore Ukraine back into the Commonwealth, as a third and autonomous state, under the ultimate sovereignty of the King of Poland.

Pavlo Teteria had Vyhovsky, Ivan Bohun executed, and had Yuri Khmelnytsky imprisoned.

Pavlo Teteria followed a strong line of Polish policies, and was unwilling to forge an independent Cossack policy.

In 1665 unable to cope with the social unrests, particularly the "Drozd Uprising", Pavlo Teteria abdicated and fled to Poland.