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- Sirko changed his political orientation several times. In 1654 he came to the Zaporozhian Sich, became polkovnyk (colonel), and in 1659 together with Russian prince Aleksei Trubetskoi fought against the Crimean Khanate.
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Sirko changed his political orientation several times. In 1654 he came to the Zaporozhian Sich, became polkovnyk (colonel), and in 1659 together with Russian prince Aleksei Trubetskoi fought against the Crimean Khanate.
He served as colonel of Vinnytsia regiment (1658–60) and was elected Kish otaman of the Zaporozhian Host eight times in the 1660s and 1670s. Sirko participated in the Cossack-Polish War (1648–57), campaigned against the Tatars in the lower Dnipro River region and the Perekop Isthmus in the late 1650s, and joined the Varenytsia Uprising ...
Ivan Sirko was a Ukrainian Cossack military leader and Koshovyi Otaman of the Zaporozhian Host, born around 1610 and died around 1680. He is believed to have co-authored the famous Cossack letter to the Ottoman sultan, which inspired the painting Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks by artist Ilya Repin.
Dec 22, 2022 · He started out as a lieutenant in the National Guard. Now he's a senior lieutenant in the army's 92nd Mechanized Brigade, which is named after Ivan Sirko, a 17th-Century Cossack military...
Mar 17, 2022 · Sirko settled in Paris and said he would not go anywhere until he was paid for his work. The French Guards rebuked Sirko for they fight for honor and glory, and the Cossacks — for money.
However, Mytsyik also points out that in 1658-1660 Sirko was a colonel of the Kalnyk Polk (a military and administrative division of Cossack Hetmanate) in Podilia, a position that usually was awarded to the representative of a local population.
Ivan Sirko was a Ukrainian Cossack military leader, Koshovyi Otaman of the Zaporozhian Host and putative co-author of the famous semi-legendary Cossack letter to the Ottoman sultan that inspired the major painting Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks by the 19th-century artist Ilya Repin.
