Ivan Briukhovetsky (died 18 June 1668) was a pro-Russian

Tsardom of Russia

The Tsardom of Russia was the name of the centralized Russian state from Ivan IV's assumption of the title of Tsar in 1547 till Peter the Great's foundation of the Russian Empire in 1721.From 1550 to 1700, Russia grew 35,000 km2 a year...

 hetman

Hetman

Hetman was the title of the second-highest military commander in 15th- to 18th-century Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which together, from 1569 to 1795, comprised the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, or Rzeczpospolita....

 of Left-Bank Ukraine

Left-bank Ukraine

Left-bank Ukraine is a historic name of the part of Ukraine on the left bank of the Dnieper River, comprising the modern-day oblasts of Chernihiv, Poltava and Sumy as well as the eastern parts of the Kiev and Cherkasy....

 from 1663 to 1668. For background see The Ruin (Ukrainian history)

The Ruin (Ukrainian history)

The Ruin is a period of Ukrainian history from the death of hetman Bohdan Khmelnitsky in 1657 and until ascension of hetman Ivan Mazepa in 1687. This period is characterised by continuous strife, civil war, and foreign intervention of Ukraine's neighbours...

He was a registered Cossack

Registered Cossacks

Registered Cossacks is the term used for Cossacks formations of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth armies.-Establishing:The registered cossacks were created on the King's edict of Sigismund II Augustus on June 5, 1572 confirming the orders of the Crown Hetman Jerzy Jazłowiecki. The first senior ...

, belonging to the Chyhyryn Company. Early in his career he served as Bohdan Khmelnytsky

Bohdan Khmelnytsky

Bohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky was a hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossack Hetmanate of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth . He led an uprising against the Commonwealth and its magnates which resulted in the creation of a Cossack state...

's courier and diplomatic emissary. He was elected Kosh otaman (1661–3) of the Zaporozhian Sich. At the Chorna rada of 1663

Chorna rada of 1663

The Chorna rada of 1663 was a Cossack Rada meeting on 17-18 June, 1663 till near Nizhyn, Ukraine. Where thousands of common cossacks, Zaporozhians, Ukrainian peasants, and including the Cossack starshyna where assembled to elect a new Hetman of Left-bank Ukraine...

 he was elected Hetman of the Left Bank with the support of Moscow.

However Briukhovetsky reign and cruelty worked against him, early on he arrested and executed his opponents namely polkovnyks Samko and Vasili Zolotarenko, for support he signed the Moscow Articles of 1665

Moscow Articles of 1665

The Moscow Articles of 1665 was an agreement signed on 11 October 1665 between the Left-Bank Ukrainian Hetman Ivan Briukhovetsky and the Tsardom of Russia.The treaty put Left-Bank Ukraine under the control of the Russian Tsar...

, which placed Left Bank Ukraine under direct control of the Tsar

Tsar

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. In return, Briukhovetsky acquired the title of Boyar

Boyar

A boyar, or bolyar , was a member of the highest rank of the feudal Moscovian, Kievan Rus'ian, Bulgarian, Wallachian, and Moldavian aristocracies, second only to the ruling princes , from the 10th century through the 17th century....

, properties, marriage to Prince Dolgoruky

Prince Vasili Vladimirovich Dolgorukov

Prince Vasili Vladimirovich Dolgorukov was a Russian commander and politician, promoted Field Marshal in 1728...

's daughter. This treaty went on to be called the "Briukhovetsky treaty" and caused massive rebellion in Ukraine. His popularity among the Clergy fell when he suggested that Moscow to appoint and send a metropolitan

Metropolitan bishop

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 to the Kievan Metropolia.

As his domestic policies failed Briukhovetsky put the blame on the Russian authorities and with the Cossacks rebelled in an attempt to save his reputation, but it was too late. Faced with his failures as hetman, in 1668 in the town of Budyshchi, a cossack mob killed him by chaining him to a cannon and beating him to death.