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Osyp Hladky

1789–1866 · 19th century

Osyp Hladky was the last kish otaman of the Danubian Sich, the community of Zaporozhian Cossacks who settled in the Ottoman Danube delta after 1775. During the Russo-Turkish War of 1828 he defected to Russia with part of the Host, after which the Ottomans destroyed the Sich. The Russians settled his followers as the Azov Cossack Host, which he led for many years.

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