death_place religion death_date birth_place successor article_title
kyiv , polish-lithuanian commonwealth eastern orthodox 20 march 1622 kulchytsi , polish-lithuanian commonwealth olifer holub petro konashevych-sahaidachny

petro konashevych-sahaidachny

petro konashevych-sahaidachnyi , -lrb- ; ; -rrb- -lrb- born near 1582 in kulchytsy -- march 20 , 1622 in kyiv -rrb- - ukrainian political and civic leader , hetman of ukrainian zaporozhian cossacks from 1616 -- 1622 , a brilliant military leader both on land and sea .
while being a cossack hetman , he transformed the cossack host from the erratic military formation into regular army .
under his leadership the cossacks , the orthodox clergy and peasants had been begun to emerge as the united nation .
his troops played a significant role in the battle of khotyn against the turks in 1621 and prince władysław 's attempt to gain the moscovy throne in 1618 .
