Pawluk Uprising

Pawluk Uprising of 1637 was a Cossack uprising in Left-bank Ukraine and Zaporizhia headed by Pavel Mikhnovych against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

The rebellion was sparked by several Cossacks expelled from the Cossack Registry. Mikhnovych ordered the captured commanders of the Registered Cossacks to be executed and issued a declaration, in which he proclaimed a fight against the "masters". Defeated by the forces of Mikołaj Potocki in the Battle of Kumejki in 1637, he was brought to Warsaw, tried and executed. The remnants of his forces capitulated near Borowica soon afterwards. He was succeeded in his command of Registered Cossacks by colonel Ilyash Karaimovich.