Nalyvaiko Uprising
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The Nalyvaiko Uprising (
scorched-earth
tactics employed by both sides left much of right-bank Ukraine in ruins.
Background
The steppe borderland between Poland–Lithuania, Muscovy, various
serfs. Over time a certain common identity started to form among them, giving birth to the Cossacks
.
Ottoman control. The international situation of the Cossacks and Polish-Lithuanian control over the vast areas of Kiev Voivodeship was further complicated by the fact that the rulers of Muscovy and Austria (Feodor I and Rudolf II
, respectively) wanted to win the support of Cossacks in their struggle against the Turks.
In 1591 the so-called
Zhitomir. By 1593 the rebellion was quelled and Krzysztof Kosiński
killed.
Nalyvaiko, who initially served in private units of
Transilvania in support of Ieremia Movilă
's claims to the Moldavian throne.
The uprising
Nalyvaiko left Polish service in 1594, organized a paramilitary unit of unregistered Cossacks in the vicinity of
Mogilev
.
Nalivaiko eventually offered peace to Polish king
Hryhory Loboda (Polish: Hryhor Łoboda), but was forced to retreat to left-bank Ukraine, even after defeating the Poles at Bila Tserkva
.
In May 1596 the Cossack
.References
- ISSN 1643-8191.
Bibliography
- Gordon, Linda (1983). Cossack Rebellions: Social Turmoil in the Sixteenth-Century Ukraine. ISBN 0-87395-654-0.
- ISBN 0-8020-8390-0.