Martyn Pushkar (; died 1 June 1658) was a

Ukrainian Cossack The Cossacks , es, cosaco , et, Kasakad, cazacii , fi, Kasakat, cazacii , french: cosaques , hu, kozákok, cazacii , it, cosacchi , orv, коза́ки, pl, Kozacy , pt, cossacos , ro, cazaci , russian: казаки́ or ...

military leader. From 1648 he was

polkovnik ''Polkovnik'' (russian: полковник, lit=regimentary; pl, pułkownik) is a military rank used mostly in Slavic-speaking countries which corresponds to a colonel in English-speaking states and oberst in several German-speaking and Scandin ...

Poltava regiment The Poltava Regiment ( uk, Полтавський полк) was one of ten territorial-administrative subdivisions of the Cossack Hetmanate. The regiment's capital was the city of Poltava, now in Poltava Oblast of central Ukraine. The Poltava Re ...

. After Bohdan Khmelnytsky's death, Pushkar, being one of the senior colonels in the Hetman State, was considered a candidate for the hetmancy, but

Ivan Vyhovsky Ivan Vyhovsky ( uk, Іван Виговський; pl, Iwan Wyhowski / Jan Wyhowski; date of birth unknown, died 1664), a Ukrainian military and political figure and statesman, served as hetman of the Zaporizhian Host and of the Cossack Hetma ...

was elected instead. Together with

Iakiv Barabash Yakiv Federovych Barabash ( uk, Яків Федорович Барабаш) died in September 1658) was a Zaporozhian Cossack Otaman (1657–58) who opposed Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky. In 1657 he and Poltava polkovnyk Martyn Pushkar led a pro- Muscovy ...

Pushkar led an uprising against Vyhovsky in 1657. After inflicting several defeats on Vyhovsky's Cossacks and his Crimean allies, Martyn Pushkar was killed in a battle near his native Poltava on 1 June 1658. His rebellion ended in failure. He founded the Exaltation of the Cross Monastery, which was built in a

Cossack Baroque Ukrainian Baroque, or Cossack Baroque or Mazepa Baroque ( uk, Українське бароко або Козацьке бароко), is an architectural style that was widespread in the Ukrainian lands in the 17th and 18th centuries. It was th ...

style in Poltava, to commemorate a victory over the Poles.

References

Martyn Pushkar
in Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine

Literature

* Кривошея В. «Еліти нації і еліта суспільства»: (або деякі питання української генеалогії) / Розбудова держави — 1997 — No. 11. — С. 48-55 * Горобець В. Мартин Пушкар / «Історія України в особах: козаччина». — К. : Україна, 2000. — С. 84-92 * Мокляк В. «Полтавщина козацька (від Люблінської унії до Коломацької ради» / 2008. — 264 с. * Енциклопедія українознавства : Словникова частина : в 11 т. / Наукове Товариство ім. Шевченка ; гол. ред. проф., д-р Володимир Кубійович. — Париж ; Нью-Йорк ; Львів : Молоде життя, 1954–2003. Cossack rebels Zaporozhian Cossack military personnel of the Khmelnytsky Uprising 1658 deaths 17th-century Ukrainian people Year of birth unknown Military personnel killed in action Colonels of the Cossack Hetmanate {{Ukraine-bio-stub