Yurii Khmelnytsky
| Yuri Khmelnytsky | |
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| Hetman of Zaporizhian Host | |
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In office August 27, 1657 – October 21, 1657 |
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| Preceded by | Bohdan Khmelnytsky |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Vyhovsky |
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In office October 17, 1659 – 1663 |
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| Preceded by | Ivan Vyhovsky |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Briukhovetsky |
| Hetman of Ottoman Ukraine | |
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In office 1678–1681 |
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| Preceded by | Petro Doroshenko |
| Succeeded by | George Ducas |
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| Born | 1641 Subotiv, near Chyhyryn, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth |
| Died | 1685 Kamianets-Podilskyi, Podolia Eyalet, Ottoman Empire |
| Religion | Greek Orthodox Church |
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| Noble family | Khmelnytsky family |
Yuri Khmelnytsky (Ukrainian: Юрій Хмельницький, Polish: Jerzy Chmielnicki, Russian: Юрий Хмельницкий) (1641–1685), younger son of the famous Ukrainian Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky and brother of Tymofiy Khmelnytsky, was a Zaporozhian Cossack political and military leader. Although he spent half of his adult life as a monk, he also was Hetman of Ukraine on several occasions — in 1659-1660 and 1678–1681 and starost of Hadiach. For background see The Ruin (Ukrainian history).
Yuri Khmelnytsky was born in 1641 in Subotiv near Chyhyryn in central Ukraine. In 1659 the Cossack Rada elected the 17-year-old Yurii as their hetman in Bila Tserkva, replacing the deposed Ivan Vyhovsky. The young hetman faced problems: the uneasy alliance with the Tsardom of Russia and the ongoing wars against Poland-Lithuania and against the Crimean Khanate.
In 1659 the parliament (sejm walny) of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth granted him nobility. On 24 March 1661 he became starost of Hadiach.
During the latter conflict, Yuri Khmelnytsky's Cossacks were defeated near the town of Korsun, he was captured by the Poles and later pledged loyalty to king Jan II Kazimierz of Poland-Lithuania (reigned 1648-1668). This provoked a civil war within Ukraine in 1661, when the new ataman Yakym Somko led the pro-Moscow Cossacks against Yuri and his new Polish allies. At the battle near the town of Pereiaslav in the summer of 1662 Somko's Cossacks and the Russians under Grigory Romodanovsky defeated Yuri Khmelnytsky.
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