Historical memory of Bohdan Khmelnytsky.

So here we have the Ukrainian karbovanets, nominal – 200.000. The year of issue of this coin is 1995, mint: National Bank of Ukraine, Kiev. Total circulation – 250.000. The coin was issued in honor of the 400th anniversary of the birth of Bogdan Khmelnytsky.

Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ukrainian in full Bohdan Zinoviy Mykhaylovych Khmelnytsky, Polish Bohdan Chmielnicki, Russian Bogdan Khmelnitsky who was born 1595, Chigirin, Ukraine — died Aug. 6 [Aug. 16, New Style], 1657, Chigirin.

Bohdan Khmelnytsky is the leader of the Zaporozhian Cossacks from 1648 - 1657 who organized a rebellion against Polish rule in Ukraine that ultimately led to the transfer of the Ukrainian lands east of the Dnieper River from Polish to Russian control.

Although he had been educated in Poland and had served with Polish military forces against the Turks, Khmelnytsky, who had become chief of the Cossacks at Czyhryn, quarreled with the Polish governor of that region and was forced to flee in December 1647 to the fortress of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, a semimilitary community that had developed from runaway serfs, bandits, and traders who had settled along the Dnieper River.

He then organized a rebellion among the Zaporozhian Cossacks and, with the support of the Crimean Tatars, marched against the Poles in April 1648. His victorious advance won him additional support from the dissatisfied peasants, townspeople, and clergy of Ukraine, who joined him in a mass uprising that enabled him to enter Poland proper and seize Lwów in October 1648.