Posted on 04/21/2023 12:51:08 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1597, Cossack Severyn Nalyvaiko was publicly quartered in Warsaw.
Nalyvaiko organized “unregistered” Cossacks in Poland’s eastern realms, modern-day Belarus and Ukraine, into what became a significant rebellion. (Poland’s efforts to “register” and thereby control Cossacks would continue to cause tension in the years ahead.)
The Poles outmuscled him, and here he is.
However, because longer-term historical trends were not so favorable to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Nalyvaiko rates a place as an early independence martyr for (east) Slavic resistance to Warsaw’s Polish imperialism.
Not only does he get a spot on present-day Ukrainian coinage (as pictured); 19th century Russian poet Kondraty Ryleyev, who would himself be executed for his part in the Decembrist plot, lyricized Nalyvaiko’s death as heroic national sacrifice … and simultaneously elevated the poet’s own prophesied fate for himself....
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The third film adaptation of Sienkiewicz's trilogy depicting the war between the Cossacks, Ukrainians and Poles. Although it does point out that Bogdan Chiemlnicki was, in fact, another Polish nobleman. His father was in the Polish army that took Moscow in 1610. The movie couldn't be made under communism.
As usual, when Poles fight Ukrainians, the Russians move in.
I wonder if he’s on the Ukranian quarter.
What, no drawing before the quartering? He must've been somebody's nephew to get off so light.
I'll bet they didn't even put his head on a spike.
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