Yakiv Yukhymovych Lyzohub () was a military and political figure of the

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and a member of a well known

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family of Lyzohub. He was born in a family of Chernihiv Colonel Yukhym Yakovych Lyzohub and Lyubov Petrivna Doroshenko. Yakiv Lyzohub was a grandson of Hetman Petro Doroshenko. He graduated from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy that in the 19th century was transformed into the Kyiv Theological Academy on the order of the Russian

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. In 1713-28 Lyzohub was a Bunchuk General. In 1723-24 he along with Colonel Danylo Apostol and Yesavul General Vasyl Zhurakovsky was imprisoned by Peter the Great in the

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as a members of Pavlo Polubotok's party. After the release Lyzohub was forced to live for sometime in

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. During the hetman rule of Danylo Apostol, in 1728 he was promoted to the rank of Quartermaster General. After the death of Danylo Apostol in 1734, Lyzohub was placed as an Appointed Hetman in the Governing Council of the Hetman Office which was controlled by Russian residents in Ukraine Prince Alexei Shakhovskiy at first and later - Prince Ivan Baryatinskiy, Alexander Rumyantsev and others. Lyzohub at that time commanded corps of Ukrainian Cossacks, performed functions as hetman and participated in number of military campaigns along with the Russian field marshal

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(

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and raid of

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in 1736–37). After couple of "palace coup d'etat", Lyzohub vouched for reinstating the institute of Hetman of Ukrainian Cossacks. Lyzohub had two brothers Andriy and Semen.

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Lyzohubs
at the Institute of History of Ukraine website.

at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lyzohub, Yakiv Acting Hetmans (Ukrainian Cossacks) Year of birth missing 1749 deaths People from Cherkasy Oblast People from the Cossack Hetmanate Yakiv Doroshenko family Obozni General of the Cossack Hetmanate Burials at Lazarevskoe Cemetery (Saint Petersburg)

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