Dmytro Vyshnevetsky
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Dmytro Vyshnevetsky | |
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| Дмитро Вишневецький | |
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| Died | 1563 |
| Cause of death | Torture |
| Other names | Байда (Baida) |
| Title | Starosta of Cherkasy and Kaniv Prince of Belyov |
| Father | Ivan Wiśniowiecki |
| Relatives | Andrzej Wiśniowiecki (brother) Zygmunt Wiśniowiecki (brother) Konstanty Korybut-Wiśniowiecki (brother) Konstanty Wiśniowiecki (nephew) |
| Family | Wiśniowiecki (Vyshnevetsky) |
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Dmytro Ivanovych Vyshnevetsky (Ukrainian: Дмитро Іванович Вишневе́цький; Russian: Дмитрий Иванович Вишневе́цкий; Polish: Dymitr Wiśniowiecki) was a Ruthenian magnate of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He established the Zaporozhian Cossack stronghold on the Small Khortytsia Island. He was also known as Baida (Байда) in Ukrainian folk songs.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Dmytro Vyshnevetsky was born into the powerful family of Ruthenian magnate Ivan Wiśniowiecki (?-1542) (part of Gediminids bloodline and the youngest son of Michał Zbaraski) and Nastazja Olizarowicz (?-1536), daughter of Semen Olizarowicz.[1][better source needed]
At first Dmytro Vyshnevetsky lived in the town of Vyshnivets of the Kremenets Powiat (county). In 1550–1553, Vyshnevetsky became a starosta of the Cherkasy and the Kaniv Powiats.[2] Vyshnevetsky has been called the first Cossack Hetman, although he is not mentioned with this title in the 16th-century sources.
Dmytro Baida Vyshnevetsky was an able leader, although somewhat of a reckless adventurer. He started organizing a Cossack army in 1550 against the Crimean Khanate. Displeased with the king Sigismund II Augustus's policy of Catholization and centralization of power, he was ready to go over to the Turks.[citation needed] However, he was appointed to fortify the island of Mala Khortytsia on the Dnipro beyond the rapids. According to Hrushevsky, Vyshnevetsky built the fortress out of his own pocket as both Sigismund II Augustus and Devlet I Giray refused to provide any assistance. Eventually he managed to develop it to the point that khan Devlet I Giray could not take it, and he deflected the khan's efforts to Russia.[citation needed]
In 1556 in service to Ivan the Terrible he helped lead two raids of Ukrainian Cossacks and Russians against the Crimean Tatars around Ochakiv.[3] In 1558 he raided around Perekop. In 1559 he raided down the Donets and Don. With the start of the Livonian War, Ivan turned his attention west and Vyshnevetsky, returned to the Lithuanian service with a great number of his Adyghe warriors. His Pyatigorsky detachments became the major military force of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in centuries to come. In 1561, at the request of the Lithuanian prince, he went back to fortifying Khortytsia.[citation needed]
In 1563 he was involved in Moldavian affairs, perhaps hoping to obtain the throne of Moldavia, but was defeated by the Turks, taken prisoner, and tortured to death in Constantinople.[4]
Vyshnevetsky's fortifications on Khortytsia, called sich, served as a prototype for later fortifications of the Zaporizhian Sich.
In popular culture
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He appears as an antagonist in The Ringed Castle, a 1971 novel by Dorothy Dunnett.
In the film Propala Hramota (The lost letter, 1972), a fragment of the famous old Ukrainian folk song about Baida was sung by Ivan Mykolaychuk:
Ой як стрілив - царя вцілив,
А царицю в потилицю...[5]
12th Operational Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine was given his Honorary name to honour his legacy.[6]
See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Wolff 1895, p. 563.
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Bibliography
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Arkadii Zhukovsky. Vyshnevetsky, Dmytro in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).
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