Samiylo Kishka

[2] Hetman Samiylo Kishka is famous for leading the Cossacks in successful naval expeditions against the Turks.

[3][2] In 1599 Samiylo Kishka helped the Polish king in a war with the Walachians in Moldavia, where he organized land raids.

[4] In 1600 Samiylo Kishka started negotiations with King Sigismund III Vaza and managed to reach Poland's recognition of the Cossacks as a social status.

[5] There are some historical songs and Dumas with moral and patriotic ideological subtext that are dedicated to Samiylo Kishka.

[6] Borys Yanovsky wrote the epic opera A Song Of The Black Sea about Hetman Samiylo Kishka and his Zaporogian Cossacks in Turkish captivity.