Yurii Khmelnytsky

Yurii Khmelnytsky
Hetman of Zaporizhian Host
In office
27 August 1657 – 21 October 1657
Preceded byBohdan Khmelnytsky
Succeeded byIvan Vyhovsky
In office
17 October 1659 – 1663
Preceded byIvan Vyhovsky
Succeeded byIvan Briukhovetsky
Hetman of Ottoman Ukraine
In office
1678–1681
Preceded byPetro Doroshenko
Succeeded byGeorge Ducas
Personal details
Born1641
Subotiv, near Chyhyryn, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Died1685 (disputed)
Kamianets-Podilskyi, Podolia Eyalet, Ottoman Empire

Yurii Khmelnytsky ((monastic name: Hedeon), Ukrainian: Юрій Хмельницький, Polish: Jerzy Chmielnicki, Russian: Юрий Хмельницкий) (1641 – 1685(?)), younger son of the famous Ukrainian Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky and brother of Tymofiy Khmelnytsky, was a Zaporozhian Cossack political and military leader. Although he spent half of his adult life as a monk and archimandrite, he also was Hetman of Ukraine on several occasions — in 1659-1660 and 1678–1681 and starost of Hadiach, becoming one of the most well-known Ukrainian politicians of the "Ruin" period for the Cossack Hetmanate.