Samiilo Velychko

Samiilo Velychko
Memorial sign in honor of Samiilo Velychko, village Zhukyː ″Lifelong memory and honor famous countryman, patriot, the greatest chronicler of the heroic days of the Cossacks Samiylo Velychko″
Born11 February 1670
Zhuky, Poltava Regiment, Cossack Hetmanate (now part of Poltava urban hromada, Ukraine)
Diedafter 1728
in the same place
Occupationchronicler
Known forthe author of the first systematic presentation of the history of the Ukrainian Cossack state
Notable work"Chronicle of Samiilo Velychko"

Samiilo Vasyliovych Velychko (Ukrainian: Самі́йло Васи́льович Вели́чко; 11 February 1670 – after 1728) was a Cossack nobleman and chronicler who wrote the first systematic presentation of the history of the Cossack Hetmanate.

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