Severyn (Semeriy) Nalyvaiko (, , in older historiography also ''Semen Nalewajko'', died 21 April 1597) was a leader of the

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who became a hero of

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. He led the failed

Nalyvaiko Uprising The Nalyvaiko Uprising ( pl, powstanie Nalewajki, uk, повстання Наливайка) was a Cossack rebellion against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Headed by Severyn Nalyvaiko, it lasted from 1594 to 1596. The second in a series ...

for which he was tortured and executed in

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. The

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poet

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wrote a poem about him."Nalyvaiko, Severyn"
''Encyclopedia of Ukraine'', vol. 3 (1993).

Biography

Nalyvaiko was born in the town of

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not far from

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into a

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's family. After the killing of his father by the servants of the magnate Kalinowski he moved with his mother to

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where his elder brother was a seminary student. He later served with the registered Cossacks under Prince Kostiantyn Vasyl Ostrozky in the army of

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. In 1593 he fought against the rebellious

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led by Krzysztof Kosiński during the Kosiński Uprising. He left the service in 1594, and organized a paramilitary unit of unregistered cossacks in the vicinity of

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, and raided several

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n and Hungarian towns. The following year, Nalivaiko's Cossacks were joined by many run-away Ukrainian peasants and captured the town of

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where his men massacred

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, Catholic clergy and local Greek-Catholics. From

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Nalivaiko's Cossacks moved into

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, where they pillaged Mogilev. TimbreSeverynNalivaïko

Nalivaiko eventually offered peace to the Polish king

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, conditioned that the Poles cede the lands between

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and

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rivers south of

to the Cossacks in exchange for their military service and loyalty to the

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. Having refused these terms, the king recalled

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from Moldavia to quell the Nalivaiko Uprising, which had engulfed most of Polish crown lands in

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and

(that time called

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) by 1596. Nalivaiko joined his forces with the Cossack

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(Polish: Hryhor Łoboda) but was forced to retreat to the

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. In May 1596 the Cossack

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was surrounded by Poles near the town of Lubny. The Cossacks fought for two weeks before running out of food and water. Thereupon they handed over Severyn Nalivaiko to the Poles in exchange for their own lives. After Nalivaiko's surrender there came to unplanned fight between Polish and Cossack troops, which turned into massacre of those who didn't want to surrender. Nalivaiko was brought to

in a cage and publicly quartered. There were contemporary stories about him being crowned with a white-hot iron crown or boiled alive in a copper cauldron, but they are not verified by factual evidence. Сергій Леп'явко (1994) ''Северин Наливайко // Володарі гетьманської булави: Історичні портрети''. В. А. Смолій.(ed.) — К.: Варта. pp. 53–85.

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