Danila Nechay (Ukrainian: Danilo Nechay ; circa 1612 - February 10, 1651, Krasnoe , Podillia ) - Ukrainian commander, participant in the uprising of Bohdan Khmelnytsky , the national ideal of the Cossack knight.
| Danila Nechay | |
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| Danilo Nechay | |
 Shlakhetsky coat of arms Nechaev | |
| Date of Birth | November 1, 1612 |
| Place of Birth | |
| Date of death | February 10, 1651 (38 years old) |
| Place of death | Krasnoe , now Tyvrovsky district , Vinnytsia region |
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Biography
Nechay came from the old Ukrainian Orthodox gentry surname of the coat of arms New Pobog (in Ukrainian: “Pobud vіdmіnny”) [1] , dating back to the turn of the XV - XVI centuries . He was born, apparently, in the city of Bar , in Podolia. Had three brothers. Matvey Nechay was a centurion , and then a punished colonel of the Uman regiment . Ivan Nechay was a Mogilev colonel. Yuri Nechay was a centurion in the Mogilev regiment ...
Some historians claim that Nechai studied at the Kiev-Mohyla Academy, which he graduated in 1647, that is, at the age of 35. According to other sources, in his youth, traces of Danila Nechay were seen in the Zaporizhzhya Sich and even among the Don Cossacks, where he comprehended military art. According to Cossack legends, Danila Nechai was a comrade -in- arms of Pavel Pavlyuk-But , Yakov Ostryanin , a twin of Ivan Bogun .
In 1647, Nechai accompanied Bogdan Khmelnitsky to the Nikitinsky (Mikitinsky) Sich . He participated in the capture of the Kodak fortress by the Cossacks, in the battles under the Yellow Waters , near Korsun . Organized by the Bratslav regiment . Then he became one of the associates of Maxim Krivonos , distinguished himself in battles in the Vinnitsa , near Medzhibozh . As a Bratslav colonel, he participated in the battles of Starokonstantinov , near Pilyavtsy . The Polish memoirist S. Auschwitz in his Diariush calls the Cossack leader Nechai " one of the most important rebels among the rebels, to whom the Cossacks themselves gave first place after Khmelnytsky ." Contemporaries respectfully recognized his "extreme courage and intelligence" ...
Colonel Danila Nechai participated in the campaign of the Cossack army in Galicia, where, on behalf of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, he captured the castle in Brody and besieged other Lvov commanders and stormed Zamost . After the liberation of Kiev , from December 1648 he was in the rank of Kiev colonel. [2] . In the winter of 1649 - 1650 Danilo Nechay in Kiev "repaired the military trial of the Poles." Then the detachment headed by him overtook a detachment of Polish gentry near Fastov , who fled with the looted property, and dealt with them ... In Kiev and Pereyaslav, Nechai negotiated with diplomats of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth .
Nechai opposed the compromise Zborowski agreement of 1649 ... Together with Matvey Gladky , Colonel Nechai took Magpies and the then capital of Moldova - Iasi , forcing the Moldavian ruler Vasil Lupul to an alliance with Khmelnitsky.
Colonel Nechai was killed in a battle with the army of the Polish hetman M. Kalinovsky , in the town of Krasnoe in Podolia . Cossacks celebrated Shrovetide and did not expect an attack.
1651. Krim Khan, having been persuaded by Khmelnitsky’s cunning, declared war on the Poles, and at that time, King Kazimar ordered the entire Polish ruin to be ready for war. Then, in 1651, Khmelnitsky ordered a large number of registers to register the Cossack army and Lyakhov again from Ukraine to drive out and kill. Then Nechay Braslavsky drunk on the run in the Krasnoye hetman, the full Kal'novskiy killed.
- Chronicle of the Self-Viewer on Newly-Opened Lists , Ed. O. I. Levitsky. - К., 1878. - p. 211-319.
About the heroic deeds of D. Nechay, the Ukrainian people composed numerous songs and thoughts .
Notes
- ↑ see the works of Vyacheslav Kazimirovich Lipinsky and Natalia Nikolaevna Yakovenko
- ↑ See the work of M. A. Maksimovich , “Review of the city regiments and hundreds that have been in Ukraine since the time of Bogdan Khmelnitsky”, Kiev, 1856
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Literature
- N.V. Ogarkov. Nothing, Danila // Soviet Military Encyclopedia. - M: military publishing house, 1978. - T. 5. - S. 573. - 583 p. - 105,000 copies.
- Petrovsky M.N. Vizvolna vіyna of the Ukrainian people against the oppression of Polish nobility and admission of Ukraine to Russia (1648-1654) , Kiev 1939.
- Lipinsky V.K. The fate of the gentry of the great Ukrainian rebel with the wire of Hetman Bogdan Khmelnitsky , Philadelphia 1980.
- Yakovenko N.N. Ukrainian gentry with kіntsya XIV to the middle of the XVII century. Volyn i Central Ukraine , Kyiv 2008.
- Kovalenko Sergiy. Nechay Danilo // Ukraine with the mace of Bohdan Khmelnitsky. Encyclopedia in 3 volumes. Volume 1., Kyiv, "Styx", 2007.
- Ukrainian cossacks . Mala encyclopedia. Kiev, 2006.
- Mikitin T. Danilo Nechay (Historical story). Artist L. Priyma. Lviv, Kamenyar, 1983.
- Nechay, Daniel - The New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron, vol. 28