Kost Hordiyenko

Kost Hordiyenko
Кость Гордієнко
Kosh otaman of the Zaporozhian Cossack
In office
1703–1728
Preceded by Petro Sorochynskyi
Succeeded by Ivan Biletskyi
Personal details
Died 15 May 1733
Poltava region, Hetmanate
Nationality Ukrainian
Religion Eastern Orthodox

Kost Hordiyenko (Ukrainian: Кость Гордієнко) (unknown - 15 May 1733) was a Zaporozhian Cossack Kosh otaman. After 1709 he allied with Ivan Mazepa, and co-authored the Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk.

Hordiyenko was born in the Poltava region, Hetmanate. He studied at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy.[1] Later he joined the Zaporizhian Sich, headed the Cossack troops (1702-1706, 1707-1709, 1710—1728). As an allied of Mazepa fought in the Battle of Poltava.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Kashchenko, Adrian (1991). Opovidannia Pro Slavne Viisko Zaporozke Nyzove. Dnipropetrovsk: Sich. pp. 167–168. ISBN 978-5-7775-0301-5.
  2. ↑ Subtelny, Orest (1981). The Mazepists: Ukrainian Separatism in the Early Eighteenth Century. Columbia University Press. pp. 47–49. ISBN 0-914710-81-8.

Literature

  • Kashchenko, Adrian (1919). Kost Hordiyenko-Holovko ostanniy lytsar Zaporozhzhya. Vienna-Katerynoslav: Мелантрих.


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