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Yakiv Yukhymovych Lyzohub
(
Ukrainian
:
Як?в Юхимович Лизогуб
) was a military and political figure of the
Cossack Hetmanate
and a member of a well known
Cossacks
family of Lyzohub
.
He was born in a family of Chernihiv Colonel Yukhym Yakovych Lyzohub and Lyubov Petrivna Doroshenko. Yakiv Lyzohub was a grandson of Hetman
Petro Doroshenko
. He graduated from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy that in the 19th century was transformed into the
Kyiv Theological Academy
on the order of the Russian
Holy Synod
.
In 1713-28 Lyzohub was a Bunchuk General.
In 1723-24 he along with Colonel
Danylo Apostol
and Yesavul General
Vasyl Zhurakovsky
was imprisoned by Peter the Great in the
Peter and Paul Fortress
as a members of
Pavlo Polubotok
's party. After the release Lyzohub was forced to live for sometime in
Saint Petersburg
.
During the hetman rule of
Danylo Apostol
, in 1728 he was promoted to the rank of Quartermaster General. After the death of Danylo Apostol in 1734, Lyzohub was placed as an Appointed Hetman in the
Governing Council of the Hetman Office
which was controlled by Russian residents in Ukraine Prince Alexei Shakhovskiy at first and later - Prince
Ivan Baryatinskiy
,
Alexander Rumyantsev
and others. Lyzohub at that time commanded corps of Ukrainian Cossacks, performed functions as hetman and participated in number of military campaigns along with the Russian field marshal
Burkhard Christoph von Munnich
(
War of the Polish Succession
and raid of
Crimean Khanate
in 1736?37).
After couple of "palace coup d'etat", Lyzohub vouched for reinstating the institute of Hetman of Ukrainian Cossacks.
Lyzohub had two brothers Andriy and Semen.
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