Ivan Samoylovych (died 1690) was the Hetman of Left-bank
Ukraine from 1672 to 1687. His term in
office was marked by further incorporation of the Cossack
Hetmanate into the Tsardom of Russia and by attempts to win
the Right-bank
Ukraine from Poland-Lithuania.
Samoylovych's
father was a priest in a village near Zhytomyr. Ivan first rose to prominence during Ivan Briukhovetsky's revolt against Tsardom of Russia.
After Briukhovetsky's execution he supported Demian Mnohohrishny as
a new hetman and swore allegiance to the Russian Tsar. Securing Mnohohrishny's
deposition, he was elected the Hetman of the Left-Bank Ukraine in Konotop on
June 17, 1672.
Samoylovych's
principal ambition was to control the Right-bank Ukraine, where two rival hetmans, Petro Doroshenko and Mykhailo Khanenko,
were active. In 1674 he joined his Cossacks with the Russian forces under Prince Grigory Romodanovsky against
Doroshenko.
In June 1687, Ivan Mazepa used the popular
discontent with Samoylovych's haughty manners and high taxes to accuse him of
separatism. Thereupon his youngest son, Hryhory Samoylovych, was incriminated
in slandering the Tsar and executed in Sevsk. The old
hetman and his family were arrested and exiled to Tobolsk in Siberia, where
he died in 1690.
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