Ivan Mazepa biography

Іван Мазепа

Contributed by Olga Kovalevska

Milestone dates of Ivan Mazepa life and activity

March 20, 1639		I. Mazepa date of birth

1646—1656		studies at Kyiv-Mohyla College

1657—1659		studies abroad

1659/60—1663		service to King of Poland John Casimir (Jan Kazimierz)

1668		marriage with Hanna Frydkevych

1669—1674		service to the Right-bank Ukraine’s hetman P. Doroshenko

1674		change to service to the Left-bank Ukraine’s hetman І. Samoylovych

1682		election to the post of the General Osaul (Cossack’s captain)

July 25, 1687		election as the Hetman at the military council on the river Kolomak

1689		journey to Moscow

1690		participation in the first campaign to Kyzykermen fortress

1691—1692		Petryk uprising

1693—1694		participation in military campaigns to the south

1695		seizure of Kyzykermen fortress by І. Mazepa troops

1696		participation in Azov campaigns and seizure of Azov fortress

February 8, 1700		conferment of the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called

1701		І. Mazepa campaign to Livland, restitution of Pereyaslavs’ka episcopacy and Trahtemyrivs’kyi monastery on the Right-bank Ukraine, granting academy status to Kyiv-Mohyla College

1702—1704		uprising at the Right-bank Ukraine

1703		construction of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy building

1705		hetman’s campaign to Poland, seizure of Zamość

1707		awarding of the Order of the White Eagle (Order Orła Białego)

September 1, 1707		pursuant to the order of the Emperor of Austria Joseph І, І. Mazepa was honourably titled as the Duke of the Holy Roman Empire

November 2, 1708		downfall of Baturyn

November 5, 1708		forfeiture of the Order of St. Andrew

June 27, 1709		Poltava disaster

September 22, 1709		death of hetman in the village Varnytsya near Bendery

October 1709		making of so-called “Judas order” in order to execrate hetman as “betrayer and venal mercenary”

March 18, 1710		re-interment of hetman in Galatz (Romania)

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