UKRAINIAN SPARTACUS — SAMIYLO KISHKA
The time of Cossack Hetman Samiylo Kishka coincided with the period of Ukrainian Cossack development that needs further research by historians. Therefore, his biography features some inaccuracies, and different researchers do not agree about the dates of his birth and death. However, most scholars tend to believe that Samiylo Kishka was born in 1530 into a family of Ukrainian noblemen from Bratslav. Having acquired quite decent education for the time, Samiylo Kishka began to live as a Cossack since the age of twenty. He took part in several campaigns headed by Dmytro Vyshnevetskyi, and in the Za-porizhzhian forces he confronted Tatar attacks on the Ukrainian lands.
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In the late 1560s, having gained vast military experience and re
