Ivan Pidkova
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Ioan Potcoavă
)| Ivan Pidkova Ioan Potcoavă | |
|---|---|
Prince of Moldavia | |
| Reign | November – December 1577 |
| Predecessor | Peter the Lame |
| Successor | Peter the Lame |
| Born | unknown |
| Died | 16 June 1578 |
| Religion | Orthodox |
Ivan Pidkova (
moniker ("pidkova" in Ukrainian/"potcoavă" in Romanian – "horseshoe") is said to originate in the fact that he used to ride his stallions to the point of breaking off their horseshoes; another version says that he could break and unbend both horseshoes and coins with his fists. He is perhaps best known as the hero of Ukraine's bard Taras Shevchenko's poem Ivan Pidkova (1840). Celebrated as a Ukrainian hero[1] he led the Moldavian and Ukrainian struggle against Turkish domination.[2] In his poem on Pidkova, Shevchenko "lets his mind travel over the Ukrainian past,"[3] expressing his admiration for the Ukrainian Cossacks.[4]
Biography
His ethnic origins are not known, but he is generally regarded as of Ukrainian ethnicity.Grigore Lobodă (Hryhoriy Loboda; 1593–1596) and Dănilă Apostol (Danylo Apostol; 1727–1734).
Pidkova was one of the so-called Domnișori ("Little Princes"), named so because of a more or less based claims of belonging to Moldavian ruling families, thus exercising demands of the throne. Claiming to be Ioan III Vodă's half-brother, he together with Hetman Yakiv Shah chased
Stefan Báthory, managed to remove him. In the end, Pidkova was taken prisoner by Poles and decapitated in Lviv
.
He is the hero of
poem Ivan Pidkova, of Romanian writer Mihail Sadoveanu's socialist realist 1952 novel Nicoară Potcoavă, and of several Cossack ballads. His monument is placed on one of the small central squares in Lviv
, Ukraine.
References
- ^ William Richard Morfill (1880). Russia. S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. p. 78.
Many of the poems of Shevchenko celebrated the early history of the Ukraine, the national heroes, Ivan Pidkova, Nalivaiko, Doroshenko and others.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7818-0135-5.
- Kozaks
- ^ Soviet Ukraine Publishers (1990). Ukraine. Soviet Ukraine Publishers. p. 24.
In such poems as Ivan Pidkova , Tarasova Nich , Haidamaks , Shevchenko expressed his infatuation with the romantic beauty and might of the former Cossack Ukraine.
- ISBN 978-0-674-05001-3.
"state officials erected a statue to Ukrainian cossack leader Ivan Pidkova
- ^ Dmytro Doroshenko (1975). Oleh W. Gerus (ed.). A Survey of Ukrainian History. Humeniuk Publication Foundation. p. 162.
The Turks made a speedy end of Ivonia , but very soon a successor appeared in the person of Ivan Pidkova , a Ukrainian who gave himself out to be Ivonia's brother
- ^ Volodymyr Sichynskyi (1953). Ukraine in Foreign Comments and Descriptions from the VIth to XXth Century. Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. p. 53.
and also gives very important data on the arrest and execution by the Poles of Ivan Pidkova, a Ukrainian
- ISBN 978-0-8020-7820-9.
- ^ Firov. Hetmans of Ukrainian Cossacks. Sevastopol, 2005. П.Т.ФИРОВ "ГЕТМАНЫ УКРАИНCКОГО КАЗАЧЕСТВА" Биографические справки, Севастополь 2005
