Bohdan Khmelnytsky
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Zynoviy Bohdan Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky of the Abdank coat of arms was a Ruthenian nobleman and military commander of Zaporozhian Cossacks as Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host, which was then under the s
Khmelnytsky holding a bulava, c. 1651
Portrait of Bohdan Khmelnytsky (c. 1650) in the District Museum in Tarnów. Khmelnytsky obtained ready-made garments from the East. According to a 1651 message, Sultan Mehmed IV sent to him "a samite caftan, one of his honorable royal caftans."
Bohdan Khmelnytsky (left) with Tugay Bey (right) at Lviv, oil on canvas by Jan Matejko, 1885, National Museum in Warsaw
Meeting of Khmelnytsky with the Polish envoy, 1648 (unknown author, 17th century)
Ivan Vyhovsky
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Ivan Vyhovsky, served as hetman of the Zaporozhian Host, leading the Cossack Hetmanate during the Russo-Polish War.
Portrait by Havrylo Vasko, 1850
Seal used by Vyhovsky during his term as voivode of Kyiv
Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks Yorck