Pavlo Andriyovych Holovaty ( ua, Павло Андрійович Головатий; 1715–1795) was a
Ukrainian
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military figure, a Kosh Otoman of the
Zaporozhian Sich
The Zaporozhian Sich ( ua, Запорозька Січ, ; also uk, Вольностi Вiйська Запорозького Низового, ; Free lands of the Zaporozhian Host the Lower) was a semi-autonomous polity and proto-state of Co ...
and last military judge of the
Zaporozhian Cossack Host. He is often confused with his younger brother, the leader of the Zaporozahian Host's successor the
Black Sea Cossack Host Antin Holovaty
Antin Holovaty ( ua, Антiн Андрійович Головатий) or Anton Golovaty (russian: Антон Андреевич Головатый) ; between 1732 and 1744 – January 28, 1797 was a prominent Zaporozhian Cossack leader who ...
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Biography
Pavlo Holovaty was born in
Kiev and educated together with his younger brother at the
Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
With the destruction of the
Zaporozhian Sich
The Zaporozhian Sich ( ua, Запорозька Січ, ; also uk, Вольностi Вiйська Запорозького Низового, ; Free lands of the Zaporozhian Host the Lower) was a semi-autonomous polity and proto-state of Co ...
in 1775, many of the more senior Cossacks were repressed by the Russian government. Pavlo was one of those arrested with the last Zaporozhian koshovy
Petro Kalnyshevsky
Petro Kalnyshevsky (20 June 1690? – 31 October 1803) was the last Koshovyi Otaman of the Zaporozhian Host, serving in 1762 and from 1765 to 1775. Kalnyshevsky was a hero in the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774 for which he was awarded the Gold ...
. Both Holovaty and Kalnyshevsky spent a year incarcerated in Moscow, and were given death sentences which were later commuted to lifetime incarceration.
He was sent to
Toblosk and incarcerated at the Znamensky monastery until his death.
[Encyclopedia of the Ukrainian Cossacks - Kyiv, 2006, p. 132]
Notes
Sources
*(In Ukrainian) H. Kvitka-Osnovianenko - Holovatyi in: Zaporozhtsi. Istoriyi Kozatskoyi kultury Kyiv, 1993. p.`130-140
*A. Kaschenko - Opovidannia pro Slavne vijsko zaporoz'ke nyzove - Kyiv, 1992. (The story about the Glory of the army of lower Zaporizhzhia)
Encyclopedia of the Ukrainian Cossacks - Published by the Zaporizhia State University* Encyclopedia of the Ukrainian Cossacks - Kyiv, 2006,
See also
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Zaporozhian Host
Zaporozhian Host (or Zaporizhian Sich) is a term for a military force inhabiting or originating from Zaporizhzhia, the territory beyond the rapids of the Dnieper River in what is Central Ukraine today, from the 15th to the 18th centuries.
These i ...
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Zaporizhian Sich
The Zaporozhian Sich ( ua, Запорозька Січ, ; also uk, Вольностi Вiйська Запорозького Низового, ; Free lands of the Zaporozhian Host the Lower) was a semi-autonomous polity and proto-state of C ...
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History of the Cossacks
The history of the Cossacks spans several centuries.
Early history
Several theories speculate about the origins of the Cossacks. According to one theory, Cossacks have Slavic origins, while another theory states that the Constitution of Pyl ...
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1714 births
1757 deaths
Kosh Otamans