Koliivshchyna

Koliivshchyna rebellion
Part of Bar Confederation and Haidamaky

Camp of Haidamakas by Juliusz Kossak
Date6 June [O.S. 26 May] 1768[1] — June 1769
Location
Right-bank Ukraine, (Kyiv and Braclaw voivodeships) Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Result Russian-Polish victory
Belligerents
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
 Russian Empire		 Haidamaks
Commanders and leaders
Jan Klemens Branicki
Mikhail Krechetnikov		 Melkhisedek Znachko-Yavorsky Surrendered
Maksym Zalizniak Executed
Ivan Gonta Executed
Casualties and losses
100,000 – 200,000 civilians killed
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The Koliivshchyna (Ukrainian: Коліївщина; Polish: koliszczyzna) was a major haidamaky rebellion that broke out in Right-bank Ukraine in June 1768,[1] caused by the dissatisfaction of peasants with the treatment of Orthodox Christians by the Bar Confederation and serfdom,[2] as well as by hostility of Cossacks and peasants to the local Polonized Ruthenian nobility and ethnic Poles.[3][4] The uprising was accompanied by pogroms against both real and imagined supporters of the Bar Confederation, particularly ethnic Poles, Jews, Roman Catholics, and especially Byzantine Catholic priests and laity. This culminated in the massacre of Uman.[5] The number of victims is estimated from 100,000[6] to 200,000. Many communities of national minorities (such as Old Believers, Armenians, Muslims and Greeks) completely disappeared in the areas devastated by the uprising.[5][7][8]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference koliyiv was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ P.R. Magocsi. A History of Ukraine. pp. 294, 296.
  3. ^ Franciszek Rawita-Gawroński (1914). Sprawy i rzeczy ukraińskie: materyały do dziejów kozaczyzny i hajdamaczyzny [Ukrainian matters and things: materials for the history of Cossacks and Haidamaks]. Lviv. pp. 146, 147.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ Korzon, Tadeusz (1897). Wewnętrzne dzieje Polski za Stanisława Augusta (1764–1794) [The internal history of Poland under Stanisław August (1764–1794)]. Cracow-Warsaw. p. 200.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ^ a b Kazimierz Karolczak, Franciszek Leśniak (1998). Wielka Historia Polski [The Great History of Poland]. Cracow. p. 111.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ^ Konopczyński, Władysław (1999). Dzieje Polski nowożytnej [History of modern Poland]. Instytut Wydawniczy Pax. p. 619.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference Davies was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ Stanisław Bogusław Lenard; Ireneusz Wywiał (2000). Historia Polski w datach [History of Poland in dates]. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. pp. 274–275.