1. Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny was a political and civic leader, who was a Hetman of Zaporizhian Cossacks from 1616 to 1622.
15 Facts About Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny
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In 2010, the 440th anniversary of the birth of Hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny Sahaidachny was celebrated at the state level.
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Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny Sas suggests that during his studies at the Ostroh School, Sahaidachny decided to join the Zaporozhian Cossacks.
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Voivode Nikita Cherkassky was captured, and another voivode, Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny Danilov, died during the battle.
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Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny hid most of his army in the forest, and with a small part approached the city.
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Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny's troops captured the cities of Lebedyan, Skopyn, Dankov, and Ryazhsk.
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Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny tried to prevent the hetman from crossing the Oka near Kolomna.
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Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny's army was struck by desertion, and detachments of Moscow Cossacks and Astrakhan Tatars fled from him.
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Yavornytskyi, upon his arrival in Kyiv, Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny Sahaidachny assumed the title of "hetman of Ukraine" and began to rule that part of it that recognized itself as Cossack.
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Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny led a Cossack army numbering about 5,000 soldiers to the Tatar uluses with an exit near Perekop.
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Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny Sahaidachny took the most active part in the meetings regarding the restoration of the church hierarchy, whose opinion, as a representative of the Zaporozhian Army, was significant.
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Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny Sahaidachny joined this Orthodox brotherhood in 1616 together with "the entire Zaporozhian army".
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Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny Konashevych provided a personal guarantee of the patriarch's safety upon entering Ukraine.
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Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny managed to escape, but was wounded in the arm.
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In 2011, by the decision of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny Sahaidachny was canonized at the local level in the rank of "pious hetman".