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Orlyk (Орлик) Pylyp Stepanovich
(1672—1742)

Pylyp Orlyk was a Zaporozhian Cossack starshyna, Hetman in exile, diplomat, secretary and close associate of Hetman Ivan Mazepa. Pylyp Orlyk was born in the village of Kosuta, Ashmyany county, (Vileyka district of modern day Belarus), in a family of Czech origin. Orlyk first studied at the Jesuit college in Vilnius and until 1694 at Kyiv Mohyla... More...

Ukraine, 1997, Pylyp Orlyk

Ukraine, 2010, Pylyp Orlyk