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Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa (Ukrainian: Іван Степанович Мазепа; Polish: Iwan Mazepa Kołodyński; 30 March [O.S. 20 March] 1639 – 2 October [O.S. 21 September] 1709) was a Ukrainian military, political, and civic leader who served as the Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host and the Left-bank Ukraine in 1687–1708.
Ivan Mazepa, hetman (leader) of Cossack-controlled Ukraine who turned against the Russians and joined the Swedes during the Second Northern War (1700–21). Mazepa was unable to inspire the Ukrainian population to revolt against the Russians and could not supply the Swedes with enough Cossacks to turn the tide of the war.
Mazepa quickly gained the confidence of Samoilovych and Tsar Peter I, was made a ‘courtier of the hetman,’ and was sent on numerous missions to Moscow. Mazepa participated in the Chyhyryn campaigns, 1677–8. In 1682 he was appointed Samoilovych’s general osaul.
MAZEPA, IVAN (c. 1639 – 1709; ruled 1687 – 1709), hetman of Ukraine. Born in the Kiev region into a noble Ukrainian family, Mazepa was educated at the Kievan Mohyla Academy and the Jesuit College in Warsaw, and he also studied military affairs in the Netherlands.
MAZEPA, HETMAN IVAN STEPANOVICH (c. 1639–1709), Hetman (Cossack military leader) of Left-Bank Ukraine, 1687 to 1708. Source for information on Mazepa, Hetman Ivan Stepanovich: Encyclopedia of Russian History dictionary.
Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa was a Ukrainian military, political, and civic leader who served as the Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host and the Left-bank Ukraine in 1687–1708. The historical events of Mazepa's life have inspired many literary, artistic and musical works.
Welcome to our latest video, "Ivan Mazepa"! Dive into the fascinating life of this influential Cossack leader and explore his role in shaping Ukrainian history.
Ivan Mazepa (ēvän´ məzyā´pə), c.1640–1709, Cossack hetman [leader] in the Russian Ukraine. He was made hetman (1687) on the insistence of Prince Gallitzin, adviser to the Russian regent, Sophia Alekseyevna, and he aided Gallitzin in his campaign against the Tatars (1689).
“I loved, and was beloved again,” says the Ukrainian hetman, Ivan Mazepa, to King Charles XII of Sweden in Byron’s poem Mazeppa, which first appeared in print in 1819. Although the king seems skeptical, the hetman remains hopeful of convincing him of the power of emotions over human destiny. “But all men are not born to reign,” declares Mazepa, “Or o’er their passions, or as you / Thus o’er themselves and nations too. Mazepa’s stories of forbidden love, like the one retold ...
Mazepa served as Hetman of Zaporizhian Host (head of state of a Cossack military territory) in 1687–1708. He played an important role in the Battle of Poltava (1709), where – after learning that the Russian Tsar, Peter the Great , intended to replace him with Alexander Menshikov – he deserted his army and sided with King Charles XII of ...
