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Taras Fedorowicz was a hetman of the Cossacks.
He became the leader of non-registered Cossacks in 1629; immediatly afterwards he led a Cossack expedition to loot Crimea. In 1630 he became the leader of Cossack uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, whose szlachta (nobility) tried to turn militant Cossacks into serfs. He defeated the Commonwealth forces in two battles: at Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi and at Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi which forced the Commonwealth to accept the treaty of Pereiaslav. Hetman Stanisław Koniecpolski demanded that Fedorowicz should be turned over to the Commonwealth for a trial but Cossacks starshina (elders) refused; they however replaced Fedorowicz as a hetman with Timofiej Orendarenka. Fedorowicz, unhappy with such a turn of events, tried to raise more Cossacks against the Commonwealth but failed.
He took part in the Smolensk War between the Commonwelath and Muscovy (1632-1634), in 1634 and 1635 he yet again tried to convince the cossacks to turn against the Poles, without success. In 1635 he negotiated with Muscovites about resettlement of some Cossacks in Muscovy, and in 1636 in negotations about creating a Muscovite Cossack regiment; his propositions were discarded by Muscovites which did not want to antagonize their relations with the Commownealth at that time.
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