Lizogub, Yakov Kondratievich

His father was a Cossack of the town of Helmyaz of the Pereyaslavsky regiment . Lizogub took a lively part in the feuds that began with the death of Khmelnitsky, and in 1662 Somko appointed him Kanev colonel. In 1665, Lizogub, being the general Yesul, defeated the hetman Yablunovsky in the battle of the White Church and went against the Cossacks. In 1667 he traveled as an envoy from the hetman to Moscow, where he was granted by the tsar the nobility “for many services”.

After the death of Bryukhovetsky, Lizogub became an ardent supporter of Doroshenko and was sent by him to the left bank of the Dnieper to persuade people to join the right-bank hetman. Having occupied the colonel’s detachment for a long time, Lizogub became very popular; this inspired fears of Doroshenko, who removed Lizogub from colonelism and appointed him general yesul. Dissatisfied with this, Lizogub began to lean towards Samoilovich’s side and in 1674, having surrendered to him and Prince Grigory Romodanovsky Kanev, he crossed to the left bank of the Dnieper. But Samoilovich could not deliver Lizogub Kanev colonel, which he really wanted, and he, having remained without a post, began to organize his farm, occupying empty lands for him near Konotop. His neighbor here was the future hetman Mazepa.

In 1687, Lizogub was in the Crimean campaign, in which Samoilovich was deposed at Kolomak and Mazepa was elected in his place, and among the persons who signed the accusations against Samoilovich was Lizogub. The new hetman immediately put Lizogub a Chernigov colonel in the place of Samoylovich’s son Grigory. For participating in the second Crimean campaign (1689), Lizogub was generously awarded Mazepa, receiving from him two large villages. In 1694 he went after the hetman with twenty thousand Cossacks to Budzhak and in 1695 he wintered on the Dnieper "to protect himself from the Tatars." Lizogub was especially distinguished when he captured Azov in 1696 , when he was a punished hetman. This participation of Lizogub made him known to Peter, who, reporting on the capture of Azov to the patriarch, praised Lizogub, "a husband in virtue and skilled in military works." The “Chernigov Chronicle” ascribes the capture of this city to Lizogub alone. Chernigov colonel Lizogub stayed until his death. He was buried in the Chernigov Yelets Monastery near and to the left of the altar of the Assumption Cathedral, and his son Euthymius was buried nearby.

• Modzalevsky V. L. Lizogub, Yakov Kondratievich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.

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