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Sahaidachny. He:
1) established discipline in Cossack
environment and strengthened its status by
compromise with the Polish government;
2) was an organizer of the most powerful
marine campaigns against the Crimean
Khanate and Ottoman Empire including
Ochakiv, Perekop, Synop, Kafa, Trapezund;
3) together with the army of Zaporizhian Sich
joined the Kyiv Brotherhood (appeared in
1615); in 1618 carried out the campaign with
20, 000 strong army against Moscow to free
prince Vladyslav from the siege. Thanks to
the help of Cossacks Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth concluded Truce of Deulino
with Moscow in 1618;
4) in 1619 signed Rostavitsk treaty with
Poland, according to which, the register
increased to 3 thousand men; the registered
Cossacks received the payment of 40
thousand zlotys, the unregistered had to
return to their previous state;
5) in 1620 took advantage of the Patriarch
Teophanes’s III of Jerusalem visit to Kyiv
and got Iov Boretskyi to be appointed as a
Kyivan Metropolitan bishop and five new
Orthodox bishops for five eparchies. Thus,
the Orthodox Metropolitan system was
restored;
6) in 1621 in the battle under Khotyn
supported the Polish army (30 thousand) with
40,000 strong Cossack army to withstand the
army of Turkey (160 thousand). The Turkish

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