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At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.
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Battle of Konotop
1659 Russo-Cossack-Tatar battle
The Battle of Konotop or Battle of Sosnivka was fought between a coalition led by the Hetman of Zaporizhian Cossacks Ivan Vyhovsky and cavalry units of the Russian Tsardom under the command of Semyon Pozharsky and Semyon Lvov, supported by Cossacks of Ivan Bezpaly, on 29 June…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Ivan Vyhovsky
Hetman (ruler) of the Zaporizhian Host from 1657 to 1659
Ivan Vyhovsky, a Ukrainian military and political figure and statesman, served as hetman of the Zaporizhian Host and of the Cossack Hetmanate for three years (1657–1659) during the Russo-Polish War (1654–1667). He succeeded the famous hetman and rebel leader Bohdan Khmelnytsky.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Aleksey Trubetskoy
17th-century Russian Army officer and voivode
Prince Aleksey Nikitich Trubetskoy was the last voivode of the Trubetskoy family and a diplomat who was active in negotiations with Poland and Sweden in 1647 and with the ambassadors of Bohdan Khmelnytsky in 1654. He was the godfather of Peter I of Russia.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)