Draft:Barabash Uprising

The Barabash Uprising was a rebellion of Left-Bank Ukraine of the civil war era of 1657-1687 (The Ruin) against the pro-Polish hetman of the Zaporizhian Army Ivan Vyhovsky.

On 27 August 1657 Ivan Vyhovsky was elected Hetman of the Zaporizhian Army. This event immediately split the Cossacks.

The Greek Metropolitan Michael of Colossi, who travelled through Ukraine in 1657, said that "Hetman Ivan Vygovsky is loved by the Cherkasses of the Back Dnepr. And those on the other side of the Dnieper, and those Cherkasses and all the nobility do not like him, but are afraid that he is a Pole, and that there was no counselling between him and the Poles" . The contradictory personality of the new hetman caused strong opposition. Not a "natural Cossack", but a "lakh" bought from the Tatars for a horse, married to the daughter of a Polish magnate, caused distrust and outright dislike among many of Bohdan Khmelnytsky's closest associates.