Provisions organizing this group into a 30,000 strong army and promising a select share of them nobility grants in exchange for loyalty to the Commonwealth were included in the Treaty of Hadiach, which they refused to honor, even though their leader Vyhovsky had signed it.
Provisions organizing this group into a 30,000 strong army and promising a select share of them nobility grants in exchange for loyalty to the Commonwealth were included in the Treaty of Hadiach, which they refused to honor, even though their leader Vyhovsky had signed it. They had earlier pledged allegiance to a rival nation with the Pereyaslev Agreement, which ended their uprising under Bohdan Chmielnicki and organized them into an autonomous hetmanate. A forced resettlement near the Kuban River marked the end of the dominance of the aforementioned Zaporozhian ones, while another group of them went on a series of revolts under Stenka Razin and were based around the Don River. FTP, Yevgeny Pugachev also led a rebellion by what group of primarily Ukrainian peasants often remembered as cavalrymen?
Provisions organizing this group into a 30,000 strong army and promising a select share of them nobility grants in exchange for loyalty to the Commonwealth were included in the Treaty of Hadiach, which they refused to honor, even though their leader Vyhovsky had signed it.
{Cossack}s (I suppose you could prompt early on “Ukrainians,” although the terms of the treaty in the leadin specifically refer to Cossacks)