Ivan Briukhovetsky

Ivan Briukhovetsky ( _uk. Іван Брюховецький) (b ?, d. 18 June 1668) was a pro-Russian hetman of Left-Bank Ukraine.

He was a registered kozak, belonging to the Chyhyryn Company. He served as Bohdan Khmelnytsky's courier and diplomatic emissary. He was elected otaman (1661–3) of the Zaporozhian Sich, and in 1633 he succeeded Ivan Vyhovsky as hetman. Briukhovetsky had the support of Moscow.

When he was made Hetman, he arrested the men who had opposed him, namely colonels Samko and Vasili Zolotarenko. Later that year, all those he arrested were executed without reason.

He was pro Russian, and signed a treaty, the Moscow Articles of 1665, which placed Ukraine under direct control of the tsar. In return, Briukhovetsky acquired the title of Boyar, properties, marriage to Prince Dolgoruky's daughter, and the hatred of his people. This treaty went on to be called the "Briukhovetsky treaty" and caused massive rebellion in Ukraine. His popularity among the Clergy fell when he suggested that Moscow to appoint and send a metropolitan to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

During the uproar that followed the news of what was viewed as his treason, Ukrainians began to rebel against the Tsar's forces. Briukhovetsky took part in these uprisings in an attempt to save his reputation, but it was too late. Because of his failures as hetman, in 1668 in the city of Budyshchi, a cossack mob killed him by chaining him to a cannon and beating him to death "as if he were a mad dog." [ [http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/2006/310617.shtml PERSPECTIVES: The game goes on (07/30/06) ] ]

References

* W.E.D. Allen. "The Ukraine A History". Cambridge University Press, 1941.
* [http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=/pages/b/r/briukhovetskyivan.htm Encyclopedia of Ukraine Entry]
* [http://www.hronos.km.ru/biograf/bio_b/bryuhovecky.html Biography in Online Encyclopedia "Chronos"] ru icon