Pavlo Holovaty

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Pavlo Andriyovych Holovaty (

Zaporozhian Cossack Host. He is often confused with his younger brother, the leader of the Zaporozahian Host's successor the Black Sea Cossack Host Antin Holovaty
.

Biography

Pavlo Holovaty was born in

Kiev and educated together with his younger brother at the Kyiv-Mohyla
Academy.

With the destruction of the Zaporozhian Sich in 1775, many of the more senior Cossacks were repressed by the Russian government. Pavlo was one of those arrested with the last Zaporozhian koshovy Petro Kalnyshevsky. Both Holovaty and Kalnyshevsky spent a year incarcerated in Moscow, and were given death sentences which were later commuted to lifetime incarceration.[1]

He was sent to Toblosk and incarcerated at the Znamensky monastery until his death.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ (In Ukrainian) Adrian Kaschenko - Opovidannia pro Slavne vijsko zaporoz'ke nyzove - Kyev, 1992. p. 223
  2. ^ Encyclopedia of the Ukrainian Cossacks - Kyiv, 2006, p. 132

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