Pavlo Teteria

Pavlo Teteria (Ukrainian: Павло Тетеря; Polish: Paweł Morzkowski herbu Ślepowron; c. 1620 – 1671)[1] was Hetman of Right-bank Ukraine (1663–1665).

He was part of the delegation that accompanied Tymofiy Khmelnytsky to Iaşi to marry Ruxandra the daughter of the Moldavian Voivode Vasile Lupu.

In April 1654, Teteria and Samiilo Bohdanovych-Zarudny were part of the Ukrainian delegation sent to Moscow to conduct the Treaty of Pereyaslav with the Tsardom of Russia.

He participated in the negotiations of the Treaty of Hadiach, which would restore Ukraine back into the Commonwealth, as a third and autonomous state, under the ultimate sovereignty of the King of Poland.

The treaty led to a civil war known as The Ruin, when he openly supported pro-Polish policy and pressured the young, and inexperienced Yuri Khmelnytsky to abdicate.

Unable to gain any sufficient support from the Polish Sejm, he left for Adrianopolis, where he died plotting an invasion of Poland.

Illustrius Dominus Paulus Tetera Morzkowski, Capitaneus Braclaviensis et Nizrnensis, Magnus Dux Cossacorum, Fundator Collegii Varsoviensis Societatis Jesu
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