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Melkhisedek (Znachko-Yavorsky)
Melkhisedek (Znachko-Yavorsky) () was a famous religious figure and Archimandrite of the Kyivan Rus-Ukraine. As a religious leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church in the area, he played a key role during the Cossack-Christian uprising of XVIII century on the banks of river Dnipro called Koliivshchyna. Melkhisedek was born as Matviy around 1716 to the Lubny sotnik Karp Kostysh with a Cossack's nickname Znachko who in 1766 received an official certificate of affiliation with a noble family of Yavorsky. In 1738 Melkhisedek graduated from the Kyiv Academy. Same year he entered the Motronyn Holy Trinity monastery near Chyhyryn (today a nunnery). In 1745 Melkhisedek received monastic vows. In 1753 – 1768 he was a hegumen of the monastery. In 1761 Melkhisedek was placed in charge of all Orthodox monasteries and churches in the right-bank Ukraine by Bishop Hevrasiy Lyntsevsky and was suffragan to the Bishop of Pereyaslav. He was expressing a negative attitude toward the 1596 Union of Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maksym Zalizniak
Maksym Zalizniak (), (born early 1740s in Medvedivka near Chyhyryn - date and place of death unknown, after 1768) was a Ukrainian Cossack and leader of the Koliivshchyna rebellion. History Zalizniak was born in a poor peasant family of Orthodox Christians in the Crown land in Polish Right-bank Ukraine about 1740. At a very young age he joined the Zaporozhian Host of Sich in 1753 as an agricultural employee, then a fishery one. By 1767 he had retired both from Sich and his canteen trade and became a lay brother at near Chyhyryn. He learnt that there was a lot of Russian money (false Chervonets#Dutch ducats of Russian coinage, Dutch ducats) in the monastery and in many parts of Ukraine to fund an uprising against the Bar confederation. Witnessing Bar confederation oppression of Ukrainian peasants in right-bank Ukraine Zalizniak decided to divide ducats among rank-and-file Ukrainians, left the monastery and led an uprising of over 1,000 cossacks and of many others throughout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From The Cossack Hetmanate
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
