Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host

The position was established by Bohdan Khmelnytsky during the Cossack Hetmanate in the mid 17th century. During that period the office was electoral. All elections, except for the first one, took place in the Senior Council in Chyhyryn which, until 1669, served as the capital of the Hetmanate.

After the council in Pereyaslav of 1654, several senior cossacks sided with the Tsardom of Russia and, in 1663, they staged the "Black Council" (Chorna Rada) in Nizhyn which elected Ivan Briukhovetsky as an alternative hetman. Since the defeat of Petro Doroshenko in 1669, the title hetman was adapted by pro-Russian elected hetmans who resided in Baturyn. In the course of the Great Northern War one of them, Ivan Mazepa, decided to revolt against Russian rule in 1708, which later drew terrible consequences for the Cossack Hetmanate as well as the Zaporizhian Host. The administration was moved to Hlukhiv where Mazepa was publicly executed in effigy and declared anathema by the Russian Orthodox Church.

By an edict of the Russian Governing Senate of 17 November 1764,[1] the office was disestablished in the course of the expansion of Russian territory towards the Black Sea coast.

The list includes only hetmans who belonged to the Cossack Hetmanate. For a full list of all Hetmans of Ukrainian Cossacks, see Hetmans of Ukrainian Cossacks.

#	Hetman			Life span	Elected (event)	Took office	Left office
1			Bohdan Khmelnytsky Зиновій-Богдан Хмельницький	(1596–1657)	1648 (Sich)	26 January 1648	6 August 1657	Council of Pereyaslav, Moscow's military union with Hetmanate
2			Yurii Khmelnytsky Юрій Хмельницький	(1641–1685)	death of his father	6 August 1657	27 August 1657
3			Ivan Vyhovsky Іван Виговський	(?–1664)	1657 (Korsun)	21 October 1657	11 September 1659	Attempt for reconciliation with Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth[lower-alpha 1]
4			Yurii Khmelnytsky Юрій Хмельницький	(1641–1685)	1659 (Hermanivka)	11 September 1659	October 1662	First vassalage to Muscovy,[lower-alpha 2] later agreed to autonomy within Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth[lower-alpha 3]
5			Pavlo Teteria (1620?–1670) Павло "Тетеря" Моржковський		1662 (Chyhyryn)	October 1662	July 1665
The period of ruin and civil war
(1)			Ivan Briukhovetsky (1623–1668) Іван Брюховецький		1663 (Nizhyn)	27 June 1663 (confirmed: 27 June 1663)	17 June 1668	pro-Muscovite faction, changed sides due to Truce of Andrusovo
6			Petro Doroshenko (1627–1698) Петро Дорошенко		1666 (Chyhyryn)	10 October 1665 (confirmed: January 1666)	19 September 1676	Union treaty with Ottomans[lower-alpha 4]
(2)			Demian Mnohohrishny (1631–1703) Дем'ян Многогрішний		1669 (Hlukhiv)	17 December 1668 (confirmed: 3 March 1669)	April 1672	pro-Muscovite faction
7 (3)			Ivan Samoylovych (1630s–1690) Іван Самойлович		1672 (Cossack Grove)	17 June 1672	August 1687	pro-Muscovite faction
The period of ruin and civil war ended
8			Ivan Mazepa (1639–1708) Іван Мазепа		1687 (Kolomak)	4 August 1687	6 November 1708	"stripped" of a title, discredited
9			Ivan Skoropadsky (1646–1722) Іван Скоропадський		1708 (Hlukhiv)	6 November 1708	14 July 1722	died
X			Pavlo Polubotok (1660–1724) Павло Полуботок		appointed hetman	1722	1724	died in prison
Collegium of Little Russia (Stepan Velyaminov) 1722–1727
10			Danylo Apostol (1654–1734) Данило Апостол		1727 (Hlukhiv)	12 October 1727	29 March 1734	died
X			Yakiv Lyzohub (1675–1749) Яків Лизогуб		appointed hetman	1733	1749	died
Governing Council of the Hetman Office (Aleksei Shakhovskoy) 1734–1745
11			Kyrylo Rozumovsky (1728–1803) Кирило Розумовський		1750 (Hlukhiv)	22 February 1750	17 November 1764	resigned
Collegium of Little Russia 1764–1786 (Pyotr Rumyantsev)

Notes

Flag of Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Bohdan (Б) Khmelnytsky (Х), hetman (Г) of Host (В) of Zaporozhia (З) and of His (Е) Royal (К) Majesty (МЛС) of Rzecz Pospolita.

Further information: The Ruin (Ukrainian history)

Some historians, including Mykola Arkas,[2] question the legitimacy of the Teteria's elections, accusing him of corruption.[3] Some sources claim that the election of Teteria took place in January 1663.[4] The election of Teteria led to the Povoloch Regiment Uprising in 1663, followed by greater

unrest in the modern region of Kirovohrad Oblast, as well as Polesie (all in the Right-bank Ukraine).[5] Moreover, the political crisis that followed the Pushkar–Barabash Uprising divided the Cossack Hetmanate completely on both banks of the Dnieper River.[5] Coincidentally, on 10 January 1663 the Tsardom of Muscovy created the new Little Russian Office (Prikaz) within its Ambassadorial Office.

Vouched for by Charles Marie François Olier, marquis de Nointel, Yuriy Khmelnytsky was freed from Ottoman captivity and, along with Pasha Ibragim, was sent to Ukraine to fight the Moscow forces of Samoilovych and Romadanovsky. In 1681, Mehmed IV appointed George Ducas hetman of Ukraine, replacing Khmelnytsky.

Following the anathema on Mazepa and the election of Ivan Skoropadsky, the Cossack Hetmanate was included in the Russian Government of Kiev in December 1708. Upon the death of Skoropadsky, the elections oh hetmans were discontinued and were awarded as a gift and a type of princely title, first to Moldavian noblemen and, later, to the Russian Empress's favorites.

On 5 April 1710, the council of cossacks, veterans of the battle at Poltava, elected Pylyp Orlyk as the Hetman of Ukraine in exile. Orlyk waged a guerrilla war at the southern borders of the Russian Empire with support from the Ottoman and Swedish empires.

• List of leaders of Ukraine
• Hetmans of Zaporizhian Cossacks
• Hetman of Ukraine

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