6. The Rise of Severin Nalyvaiko Nalyvaiko, having driven the Tatars out of Podolia, sent envoys to Zaporozhye. Arriving in the Sich on July 1, 1594, they appealed to the Cossacks to take up arms against the gentry rule in Ukraine. The Cossacks were very sympathetic to the idea of a popular military uprising. Only the petty officer was against participating in it. However, when she learned that part of the Registrovtsy who were stationed in Zaporozhye had joined the Sicheviks, she changed her tactics and, in an effort to maintain her influence among the Cossacks, agreed to participate in the campaign. Its representative Grigory Loboda was placed at the head of the army going to Nalyvaiko. Before the Cossacks reached Bratslav, an uprising broke out there: on the night of October 16, the Cossacks, led by Nalyvaiko, killed the gentry who had gathered in Bratslav. The Cossacks who came up increased the forces of the rebels. On the 20th of November, the rebels captured the town of Bar. Here the Cossack Rada was convened, which decided to appeal to the Ukrainian people with generalists-to call them to revolt against the magnates and gentry, and also to take measures to provide the troops with weapons and food. The population quickly responded to the call of the rebels. The wave of revolt soon reached Vinnytsia. Describing the mood of the gentry, terebovlyansky starosta Ya. Pretvich wrote to Ya. Zamoysky on November 25: "What a horror it is there (in Vinnytsia - V. G.), how people (nobles - V. G.) run away from their homes, I can't even describe it." 1 Pretwich asked the Chancellor's permission to leave Terebovlya. In the spring of 1595, the rebel army was divided: one part of it, led by Nalyvaiko, moved to Volhynia, captured Lutsk, turned north to Belarus, and took Mogilev. The fall of this strong fortress was a signal for a mass uprising of the Belarusian peasantry. Another part of the rebel army, led by Loboda and Shaula, marched on Belaya Tserkva. From here it was supp ... Читать далее