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Briukhovetsky (Брюховецкий) Ivan Martinovich
(d. 1668)

Ivan Briukhovetsky was a pro-Russian hetman of Left-Bank Ukraine. He was a registered Cossack, belonging to the Chyhyryn Company. Early in his career he served as Bohdan Khmelnytsky's courier and diplomatic emissary. He was elected Kosh otaman (1661–3) of the Zaporozhian Sich, and in 1633 he succeeded Ivan Vyhovsky as Hetman of Ukraine, with the... More...

Ukraine, 2002, Ivan Briukhovetsky