Ivan Bezpaly

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Ivan Bezpaly (Ukrainian Iван Безпалий, Russian Иван Беспалый died 1718)^[1] was a Cossack colonel of the Uman regiment, and the leader of the pro-Russian faction in the Eastern Ukraine. He briefly served as the acting Hetman of Ukraine, elected by a limited group of left-bank Ukraine Cossacks loyal to the Tsardom of Russia,^[2]^[3] his hetmanship lasting from November 1658 to October 1659.

He fought on the Russian side in the campaign of voyevodas Romodanovsky and Trubetskoy. Bezpaly took part in the Battle of Konotop (he commanded a regiment of around 7,000 Cossacks) in which the Russian forces and their allies were defeated. In the second Rada of Pereyaslav he voluntarily stepped down as Hetman to make place for Yuri Khmelnytsky who reached his majority age. Bezpalyi was elected as military judge. He became a monk in later life.

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v t e Hetmans of Ukrainian Cossacks

Registered Cossack Army	Przecław Lanckoroński Ostap Dashkevych Dmytro Vyshnevetsky Ivan Svyrhovsky Ivan Pidkova Ivan Oryshevsky Bohdan Mykoshynsky Krzysztof Kosiński Hryhoriy Loboda Severyn Nalyvaiko Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny Mykhailo Doroshenko Taras Fedorovych Ivan Sulyma Dmytro Hunia

Cossack Hetmanate	Bohdan Khmelnytsky Yuriy Khmelnytsky Ivan Vyhovsky Yuriy Khmelnytsky

Left-bank Ukraine	Ivan Bezpaly (acting hetman) Yakym Somko (acting hetman) Ivan Briukhovetsky Demian Mnohohrishny Ivan Samoylovych Ivan Mazepa Pylyp Orlyk Ivan Skoropadsky Pavlo Polubotok (acting hetman) Danylo Apostol Kyrylo Rozumovskyi

Right-bank Ukraine	Pavlo Teteria Petro Doroshenko Yuriy Khmelnytsky Mykhailo Khanenko

List of hetmans

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