Study Notes on Historical Ukrainian Figures

Established the Ostrog Academy in 1576 (or 1578).
The academy taught the "seven liberal arts": grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.
It was the first "Slavono-Greek-Latin" school in Ukraine.

Я. В. Боднарчук, М. М. Бендюк, "Portraits of princes Ostrozhsky of the 16th - first half of the 17th century."

Born in Kulychitsy near Sambir, Lviv region.
Studied at the Ostrog Academy.
Participated in numerous Cossack campaigns.
Led Cossack troops alongside Poles to Moscow in 1618. The campaign ended with the Deulino truce.
Initiated the restoration of the hierarchy of the Orthodox church in 1620, with Ioasaf Boretsky becoming the metropolitan.
Aided the Poles in the Battle of Khotyn in 1621 where he was mortally wounded.

В.Б.Антонович, В.А.Бец, "Historical figures of the southwest of Russia in biographies and portraits," 1885.

Born to Moldavian prince Simeon and Hungarian princess Margaret.
Studied at the Lviv Brotherhood School and Zamoyski Academy.
Participated in the Battle of Khotyn.
Became a monk and from early 17th century served as Archimandrite of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.
Served as Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych from 1632 to 1647.
Achieved royal recognition of the higher Orthodox church hierarchy in 1632.
Founded the Lavra School in autumn 1631, which later unified with the Kyiv Brotherhood School and became the Kyiv-Mohyla Collegium in 1632.
Author of the liturgical book "Trebnyk" (1646).

From 1648, he was the Hetman of the Zaporozhian Army.
Organized a revolt against the Polish nobility in Ukraine, leading to the National Liberation War.
Founder of the Cossack state in Central Ukraine, known as the Hetmanate.
In 1654 at Pereiaslav, concluded a military alliance with the Moscow Tsardom.
After signing the Vilnius Russian-Polish truce in 1656, he sought alliances with Sweden and the Ottoman Empire due to the perceived threat from Moscow.

Hetman of Right-Bank Ukraine.
In 1668 became the Hetman of both sides of the Dnipro.
Led a campaign into Galicia with the army of Sultan Muhammad IV in 1672, signing the Buchach Treaty the same year.
Attempted to secure the protection of Turkey in 1669.
Resigned from leadership in 1676.

О.Ковалевська, "Portraits of Petro Doroshenko: issues of identification, research, and use."

Studied at the Kyiv-Mohyla Collegium and a Jesuit college in Warsaw.
Lived in Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.
In 1687, signed the Kolomak Articles with Moscow.
Participated in the Second Crimean Campaign in 1689 with Prince Vasily Golitsyn.
Suppressed revolts led by Petro Ivanenko (Petryk) in 1692.
From 1702 to 1704 he quelled the uprising of Semen Palij in the Right Bank, maintaining control until 1709.
Formed the Cossack elite and funded churches and cathedrals.
The Kyiv-Mohyla Collegium achieved academy status in 1701.
Shifted allegiance to Swedish King Karl XII during the Great Northern War in 1708, prompting Peter I to view it as betrayal.
The capital, Batyrin, was razed, and Chortomlyk Sich was destroyed.
After the Battle of Poltava in 1709, he had to leave Ukraine, dying in Bender (Moldova) in 1710.

О.Ковалевська, "New approaches to finding reliable representations of Hetman Ivan Mazepa."

In 1750, confirmed by Empress Elizabeth as Hetman, officially assuming the role in 1751.
The hetmanate included Zaporizhzhia Sich and Kyiv.
From 1760 to 1763 implemented judicial reform aimed at transforming the Hetmanate from a military to a civil state.
Conducted military and educational reforms.
Planned the establishment of a university in Batyrin.
In 1763, Empress Catherine II received a request from the Cossack elite to keep the Hetmanate within the Rozumovsky family, a move leading to its liquidation in 1764.

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Ukrainian businessman, state, and political leader, fifth President of Ukraine (June 2014 - 2019).
Previously served as a people's deputy in several convocations, Minister of Economic Development and Trade, and Minister of Foreign Affairs (2009-2010).
During his presidency, halted Russian aggression in Eastern Ukraine and secured foreign political support from Western countries.
Achieved visa-free travel with the European Union (2017).
Facilitated the granting of autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (2018-2019).
Owner of the Roshen confectionery corporation, as well as several automobile and bus factories.