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Bohdan Khmelnytskyi
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Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Bohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky
(; , Bogdan Khmelnitsky; (c. 1595 – 6 August 1657), was the
Hetman
of the
Zaporozhian Host
of the
Crown of the Kingdom of Poland
in the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(now part of
Ukraine
). He led an
uprising
against the Commonwealth and its
magnates
(1648–1654) which resulted in the creation of a
Ukrainian Cossack
state. In 1654, he concluded the
Treaty of Pereyaslav
with the
Tsardom of Russia
.
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