- Pavel Mikhnovych
Pavlo Mikhnovych ( _uk. Павлюк Павло Михнович; _pl. Paweł Michnowicz; also known as "Pavel Pavluk"; died 1638) was a colonel in Registered Cossacks (реєстрові козаки) аnd self-appointed
hetman , as well as a leader of a peasant rebellion (thePawluk Uprising ) inLeft-bank Ukraine andZaporizhia .The rebellion against the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 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 ofMikołaj Potocki in theBattle of Kumejki in 1637, he was brought toWarsaw , tried and executed. The remnants of his forces capitulated nearBorowica soon afterwards. He was succeeded in his command of Registered Cossacks by colonelIlyash Karaimovich .
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