Ostap Dashkevych
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Ostap Dashkevych (Ukrainian: Остап Дашкевич, also know as Dashkovych (Дашкович); b. ca. 1495 Ovruch - d. after 1535) was a commander of the Ukrainian Cossacks. He held the position of ataman in the early stages of the development of the cossacks, and is sometimes referred to as a hetman. Some sources as well as oral tradition claim that Dashkevych lived past the age of 80, at which he routed Tatars at Cherkassy.
Dashkevych served in the army of Muscovite grand prince Ivan III, though in 1515 and 1521, while in alliance with the Tatars, he orgainized campaigns against the Grand Duchy.
He took part in the 1507 uprising of Mykhailo Hlynsky against King Zygmunt I the Old. In 1514, he became the starosta of both Kaniv and Cherkasy.
Dashkevych was an effective leader, he took a major role in not only organizing Cossack forces to defend Ukraine, but also in organizing offensive campaigns against the Turks and Tatars. In Piotrków in 1533, he gave his plan to the Sejm, recommending that the government of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth organize the cossacks as a standing military force for the defense of Ukraine, which at the time made up the southern border of the Commonwealth. His plan was approved, but the Commonwealth provided no assistance. In the end, Dashkevych's efforts greatly aided the rise of the cossacks.
[edit] In literature
Dashkevych's successful rout of the Crimean Tatars' attempt to sack Cherkassy is commemorated in Tomasz Padura's ballad "Duma Rycerska".
[edit] References
- Ostafii Dashkevych at Encyclopedia of Ukraine
- Subtelny, Orest (1988). Ukraine: A History, 1st edition, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-8390-0.
- Chirovsky, Nicholas L. (1984). An Introduction to Ukrainian History. Volume II: the Polish Domination and the Cossack-Hetman State. New York: Philosophical Library. ISBN 0-8022-2407-5.
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