# Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host

The Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host (Ukrainian: Гетьман Війська Запорозького, Latin: Cosaccorum Zaporoviesium Supremus Belli Dux) was the head of state of the Cossack Hetmanate. The office was abolished by the Russian government in 1764.

## Brief history

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 Pereiaslav Agreement of 1654, several senior cossacks sided with the Tsardom of Russia and, in 1663, they convened the Black Council of 1663 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 Zaporozhian Host. The administration was moved to Hlukhiv where Mazepa was publicly executed in effigy and anathema was declared upon him by the Russian Orthodox Church.
By an edict of the Russian Governing Senate of 17 November 1764, the office was disestablished in the course of the expansion of Russian territory towards the Black Sea coast.

## List of hetmans

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 | Notes |
| 1 | Bohdan Khmelnytsky Зиновій-Богдан Хмельницький | (1596–1657) | 1648 (Sich) | 26 January 1648 | 6 August 1657 | Pereiaslav Agreement, Moscow's military union with the 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 |
| 4 | Yurii Khmelnytsky Юрій Хмельницький | (1641–1685) | 1659 (Hermanivka) | 11 September 1659 | October 1662 | First vassalage to Muscovy, later agreed to autonomy within Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth |
| 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 the Ottomans |
| (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) |||||||||