Pylyp Stepanovych Orlyk (born on October 11,
1672 in Kosuta, Ashmyany county, Grand Duchy of
Lithuania (today in Vileyka Raion,
Belarus), died on May 26, 1742 in Jassy, Principality of
Moldavia (today Iaşi,
Romania) was a Zaporozhian
Cossack starshyna, Hetman in exile, diplomat,
secretary and close associate of Hetman Ivan Mazepa.
After the Battle of Poltava in 1709, he escaped
together with Hetman Ivan Mazepa and king Charles XII of
Sweden to Bender in the Principality of Moldavia, where
Mazepa soon died. #Pylyp_Orlyk was then chosen as a Hetman in exile by the cossacks and the
Swedish king Charles XII. While
in Bender Orlyk wrote one of the
first state constitutions in Europe. ThisConstitution of
Pylyp Orlyk was confirmed by Charles XII and it also names him
as the
protector of Ukraine.
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