- Pavlo Polubotok
Infobox Military Person
name= Pavlo Polubotok
lived=1660 -December 29 ,1724
placeofbirth=
placeofdeath=Saint Petersburg ,Russian Empire
caption= Hetman Pavlo Polubotok
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allegiance=Cossack Hetmanate
serviceyears=1706-1724
rank=Colonel Acting Hetman
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battles=Great Northern War
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laterwork=Pavlo Polubotok ( _ua. Павло Полуботок) (born around 1660 died on
December 29 ,1724 ), was aCossack political and military leader andActing Hetman of theLeft-bank Ukraine between 1722 and 1724.Biography
Pavlo Polubotok was born to a noble Cossack family and as a young man served under his relative Hetman
Ivan Samoylovych .In 1706 he becamepolkovnyk (colonel) ofChernigov regiment and during theGreat Northern War remained loyal to the Russians and fought againstIvan Mazepa .Pavel Polubotok was seen by many as a possible replacement of the disgraced Hetman, but Russian Tsar Peter the Great distrusted Polubotok and supported
Ivan Skoropadsky , who became the next Hetman. Nonetheless, Polubotok's loyalty was rewarded when wealthy estates throughout Ukraine were given to him.In 1722, after the death of Skoropadsky, Pavlo Polubotok was named as his temporary replacement. As Hetman, Polubotok supported greater autonomy for
Ukraine within theRussian Empire and defended old privileges of Cossack nobility. He wrote numerous petitions to Peter the Great asking him to re-instate theCossack Hetmanate with the position of Hetman elected by thestarshina .In 1723
Alexander Rumyantsev was sent to Ukraine to investigate Polubotok. Within several months Polubotok was arrested, implicated in secret dealing withPylyp Orlyk and accused of treason. The Hetman was incarcerated in the Petropavlovsk fortress and died there less than a year later on December 29, 1724.Historians are divided on Polubotok's legacy. Soviet historians saw him as a greedy man who concentrated on overt class interests. Non-Soviet historians and Ukrainians see Pavlo Polubotok as a
martyr and a hero of Ukrainian struggle against Russian domination.Polubotok was written about in the poem "son" by
Taras Shevchenko .ee also
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Hetmans of Ukrainian Cossacks
*History of Ukraine
*Gold of Polubotok External links
* [http://www.ukma.kiev.ua/ua/general/history/professors/polubot/index.php Pavlo Polubotok] -
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