Qualla: Battle of Konotop https://qualla.com/battle-of-konotop en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:40:50 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/9/p/e/battle-of-konotop-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Konotop https://qualla.com/battle-of-konotop Battle of Konotop: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-konotop/ Photo credit Tschubby, CC BY-SA 3.0. The decade after the death of Bohdan Khmelnytsky in 1657 has a name in Ukrainian history: the Ruin. It was an apt one. The hetmanate Khmelnytsky had wrested out of Polish rule was now caught between Moscow, Warsaw, the Crimean Khanate, and its own divided Cossack elite, and every faction was willing to invite a foreign army to settle a domestic quarrel. On 29 June 1659, near the small fortress town of Konotop in what is now northeastern Ukraine, the Cossack hetman Ivan Vyhovsky and the Crimean Khan Mehmed IV Giray sprang a trap on a Russian cavalry force under Prince Semyon Pozharsky. What happened on the field was a tactical victory. What happened to the prisoners afterward was something else, and it remains one of the most painful episodes in the long, tangled story of the eastern steppe.

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]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/9/p/e/battle-of-konotop-wp/u9pe-battle-of-konotop-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Konotop: A treaty no one liked https://qualla.com/battle-of-konotop/ Photo credit Own work, Public domain. Vyhovsky had inherited an impossible job. As Khmelnytsky's chancellor and successor, he was supposed to protect Cossack autonomy from Moscow's tightening grip - and from rival hetmans whom Moscow was openly funding to undermine him. In September 1658 he signed the Treaty of Hadia...

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]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/9/p/e/battle-of-konotop-wp/u9pe-battle-of-konotop-seventy-days-at-the-walls.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Konotop: The trap at Sosnivka https://qualla.com/battle-of-konotop/ Photo credit Wacław Pawliszak, Public domain. By late June, Vyhovsky had concentrated his Cossack regiments alongside thirty thousand Crimean Tatar horsemen under Khan Mehmed IV Giray and a four-thousand-man Polish detachment with Serbian, Moldavian, and German mercenaries. The plan was simple and old. On 28 June, the hetman...

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]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/9/p/e/battle-of-konotop-wp/u9pe-battle-of-konotop-the-trap-at-sosnivka.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Konotop: What followed, and what should be remembered https://qualla.com/battle-of-konotop/ Photo credit HenrichB, CC BY-SA 3.0. After the battle the Tatars took their prisoners and, by the accounts of multiple sources, killed several thousand of them - some sold into slavery, some executed outright. It was an atrocity by the standards of any century, and it was not committed in the heat of fighting but in...

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