Golota, Ilya

Probably came from the Cossacks . His brother Grigory (Grisha, Grishko) acted with him, and after the death of Ilya he became a Bragin colonel .

At the beginning of the Cossack-peasant war in Ukraine, under the leadership of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, Ilya Golota joined the rebels. It is possible that Ilya Golota acted in Severshchina .

At the end of May 1649, Ilya Golota with a large detachment of Cossacks arrived from Sich to the Cossack Council in Maslov Stav (now the village of Maslovka , Mironovsky district , Kiev region ). Here Bogdan Khmelnitsky appointed him a punitive hetman . Ilya Golota led the vanguard of the Cossack army, which was supposed to advance on Zagall , Rechitsa , Vilna , and then go on the banks of the Vistula.

At the head of the 10,000-strong army, Ilya Golota crossed the Pripyat River and defeated the army of the Hetman of the full Lithuanian Janusz Radziwill , which violated the plans of the feudal lords of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the south of Belarus to strike the rear of the Ukrainian army of Bohdan Khmelnitsky , contributed to the growth of a peasant uprising in the south of Belarus. Golota squad grew to 30 thousand rebels. He divided his forces into several units, which for about 3 months acted with varying success. In June 1649, near Zagalya in Pripyat, Janush Radziwill surrounded his detachment (about 7 thousand hours), but the hetman Ilya Golota sent the rebels out of the encirclement.

The Cossacks of Golota, as well as the Ukrainian and Belarusian peasants and petty bourgeoisie (about three thousand in all) on the night of June 17, 1649, attempted to storm Zagalle , but were defeated. During the battle, the army was pushed into the swamps, Golota himself was seriously wounded and captured. The Poles condemned him to death and put him on a stake. According to other sources, Ilya Golota died in battle.

Ilya Golota was buried near Zagal in one of the seven mass graves of the rebels.

• Probably, Ilya Golota is the hero of the People's Duma about the Cossack Golota .
• Maria Prigara in 1966 wrote the book Cossack Golota.

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