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Pavlo Mikhnovych


Pavlo Pavliuk, or Pavlo Mikhnovych (Ukrainian: Павлюк Павло Михнович; Polish: Paweł Michnowicz or Paweł Pawluk; died 1638 in Warsaw) was a colonel in Registered Cossacks (Ukrainian: реєстрові козаки) аnd appointed by cossaks hetman, as well as a leader of a cossak-peasant uprising (the Pavlyuk Uprising) in Left-bank Ukraine and Zaporizhia.

The uprising against the abuses of the nobility and magnates of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was sparked by several Cossacks expelled from the Cossack Registry. Mikhnovych ordered the captured commanders of the Registered Cossacks to be executed and issued a declaration, in which he proclaimed a fight against the masters. Defeated by the forces of in the Battle of Kumeyki in 1637.

After the capitulation of Registered near Borovytsia December 20 Pavlyuk fell into the hands of the Polish Crown Hetman Mikołaj Potocki "Bear Elbe" after the Cossacks rebels agreed to give assurances the leaders after a representative of King Adam Kisiel. The latter claimed that the King of mercy, and trusted authority insurgents A. Kisiel. However, in February 1638 the General sejm nobility despised as the King and A. Kysil, who during his speech reminded that otherwise would have fought rebels to death. In particular, the head of Pavliuk offering hot to wear the crown, to give up a red-hot scepter. Reminder A. Kysil voluntary surrender not taken into account. King abolished the slapstick death penalty.

Than he was brought to Warsaw, tried and executed. The remnants of his forces capitulated near Borovytsia soon afterwards. He was succeeded in his command of Registered Cossacks by colonel Ilyash Karaimovich.


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