The Bohun Uprising of 1659 was a popular uprising in Right Bank Ukraine against Ivan Vyhovsky, led by Ivan Bohun.

Bohun's Uprising
Part of
The Ruin (Ukrainian history)
Date1658–1658
Location
Right-Bank Ukraine
Result Rebel victory
Belligerents
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Zaporozhian Cossacks
Commanders and leaders

John II Casimir Vasa

border=no Ivan Vyhovskyi

border=no Ivan Bohun

border=no Ivan Sirko

It broke out in connection with the signing of the Treaty of Gadyach with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by Vyhovsky in September 1658. In 1659, the combined forces of the Russian army of Grigory Romodanovsky and the Cossack regiments of Ivan Bohun, Ivan Bespaly and the Zaporozhian Cossacks of Ivan Sirko defeated the army led by Vyhovsky near Lubny and Lokhvitsa . After the defeat, Vyhovsky began negotiations on accepting Ukraine into Turkish citizenship and turned to the Crimean Tatars for help . Ivan Bohun and Ivan Sirko defeated the Tatars and moved on the hetman's capital of Chigirin . Vyhovsky fled to territory under Polish control, where he was subsequently shot (March 17, 1664 in the village of Rokytnoye, Kiev Voivodeship).

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