Kost Hordiyenko

Kost Hordiyenko
Кость Гордієнко
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

Kashchenko, Adrian (1991). Opovidannia Pro Slavne Viisko Zaporozke Nyzove. Dnipropetrovsk: Sich. pp. 167–168. ISBN 978-5-7775-0301-5.
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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[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.