The Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host was the head of state of the Cossack Hetmanate. The office was abolished by the Russian government in 1764.
Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Ivan Vyhovsky
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Bohdan Khmelnytsky
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Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host
…Carskiego Wieliczestwa] Zaporoskim; Middle Russian: гетман с Воиском [его королевской милости] Запорожским) - used by 17th-century hetmans including Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Yurii Khmelnytsky, Ivan Vyhovsky, Petro Doroshenko, Ivan Samoilovych and during the early rule of Ivan Mazepa; the monarch's title was altered depending…
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)