TRIUMPH ARRIVAL OF BOGDAN KHMELNYTSKYI IN KYIV
The successful military campaign in 1648 of the Cossack-peasant army headed by B. Khmelnytskyi, was over. The Ukrainians declared their rights decisively victoriously moving from Mykytyn Rih to Zamostia. Their commander, who had hidden in Sich a year before from the prosecution of Chaplynka submonitor, turned into a real threat for the existence of Rzeczpospolita the way the Polish authorities viewed it. It was the time of Khmelnytskyi's triumph and Kyiv, a cradle of the Ukrainian state, was chosen as the place for that.
Some events preceded Hetman Khmelnytskyi's formal arrival in Kyiv.
Jan II Kazimierz Waza (portrait by Daniel Shultz)
It is known that king Wladyslaw IV died on May 20, 1648. Only at the end of the year the Seim elected a n
