Talk:Mykhailo Krychevsky

Polish or Cossack
Sources are not very clear on whether he was a Polish noble or a Cossack... seems to me like he was a noble who sided with the Cossacks? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 01:24, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Subtelny says he was a Ukrainian nobleman. Ostap 01:35, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, was there such a thing? There were Ruthenian nobles who became polonized and joined the ranks of szlachta (technically, they joined it even before they became polonized). Krychevsky might have been one of them. But currently, we categorize them as Category:Polish nobility (which is a decent, but not perfect, category for members of szlachta). PS. My point is that if he was a noble, he must have been a member of szlachta. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 01:51, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Age
Year of birth unknown. What about estimates? Was the late Polish-Swedish war (late 1620s) the first war he fought in (which would indicate he was born somewhere around 1600s or 1610s), or (as one source I found may suggest) did he fight in the Polish-Muscovite war (late 1600s-1610s) which would make him a contemporary of Khmelnytsky (born in 1590s)? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 01:53, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Name
I do wonder, given that he came from a polonized szlachta family, and that he was named Mykhailo only a year or so before his death, if we shouldn't move this article to Stanisław Krzyczowski (the name preferred by PSB)? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 18:18, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Mykhailo Krychevsky seems more common in an english google book search. Ostap 03:24, 6 February 2009 (UTC)