Siege of Pereiaslav | |||||||
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Part of Russo-Polish War (1654–1667) | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Cossack hetmanate Crimean Khanate |
Russia Cossack hetmanate | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Yuri Khmelnitsky |
Prince Vasily Bogdanovich Yakym Somko | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
First siege: Unknown Second Siege: 14,000 | 3,519 |
The Sieges of Pereiaslav in 1661–1662 are episodes of the Ruin and the Russo-Polish War of 1654–1667.Yuri Khmelnitsky, the Hetman of Right-Bank Ukraine, who went over to the side of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, twice attempted to take Pereiaslav , which was defended by his uncle, Yakym Somko, who led the Left-Bank opposition to Khmelnitsky, and a garrison of tsarist troops led by Prince Volkonsky-Verigin.[1]