Matvii Hladkii

Matvii Hladkyi (* ? — 1610 — † early May 1652) was a Myrhorod colonel of the Zaporizhzhya Army, diplomat, leader of the anti-Polish uprising on the Left Bank, suppressed by Lisovets. Executed by order of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi.

A centurion of the Stayatka Hundred of the registered Kaniv regiment (1638 — ?), later a colonel of Myrhorod (? — 1649.04. — 1652.05.). Carried out diplomatic assignments of B. Khmelnytskyi. He was part of the embassy that supported the candidate for the royal throne Jan II Casimir at the election sejm in the fall of 1648 in Warsaw.

Participant in the battles of Korsun and Pylyavets, campaigns on Lviv and Zamoste. He led the Cossack corps, which operated in the territory of Belarus in the winter and spring of 1649. He headed the delegation at the negotiations with the Poles near Berestechko (June 1651). During the Battle of Berestei, after the hetman left the army, he was elected acting hetman, succeeding Jalaliya. Subsequently, he signed the Belotserki treatise.

In 1652, Matvii Hladkyi led the resistance against the Poles, who, despite the truce, attacked the lands of the Myrhorod regiment, which eventually turned into an uprising on the Left Bank. During the Polish-Ukrainian Korsun Commission, Khmelnytskyi used this reason to destroy a competitor who had gained great authority among the Cossacks. Hetman Hladky was shot by order. He was buried on May 7, 1652 in the village of Myrhorodtsi not far from Myrhorod, in the church he was the founder of during his lifetime.

Commemoration

In the city of Myrhorod, there is Matvyi Hladky's lane.