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Ivan Mazepa

1639–1709 · 17th century

Ivan Mazepa was hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate from 1687 to 1708 and a generous patron of Orthodox churches, learning and the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. During the Great Northern War he broke with Peter the Great and joined Charles XII of Sweden in 1708, hoping to free the Hetmanate from Russian control. After their defeat at Poltava in 1709 he fled to Ottoman territory, where he died at Bender.

Ivan Mazepa
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