Yakym Somko
Yakym Somko | |
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Russo-Polish War (1654-1667) The Ruin | |
| Spouse(s) | Iryna Semenivna Somko |
| Children | Halyna Somko, Paraskeva Somko, Vasyl Somko |
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Yakym Somko (
Acting Hetman of Left-bank Ukraine in 1660-1663, during The Ruin
.
He was first appointed captain of the Pereiaslav regiment in 1654, and became the acting colonel in 1658. At the Pereiaslav Council of 1660 that concluded the
otaman Ivan Briukhovetsky
.
During the
starshyna council at Kozelets
in 1662 to recognize his tenure as hetman.
In order to decide on a new hetman, a
Chorna rada took place on June 17–18, 1663 near Nizhyn, where a cossack council consisting of the starshyna, and a large number of common cossacks elected a new hetman for left-bank Ukraine. The officers proposed him and colonel Vasyl Zolotarenko of the Nizhyn Regiment as candidates, but the majority and including the Tsar supported Briukhovetsky and elected him the new hetman. Both Somko, and Zolotarenko were imprisoned and then were handed over to Briukhovetsky, who had them executed in Borzna
on September 28, 1664.
Legacy
Yakym Somko is the central character in a novel Black Council (1846) by Panteleimon Kulish.
