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Khmelnytsky, Tymish [Хмельницький, Тиміш;

Xmel’nyc’kyj, Tymiš], b 1632, d 15 September 1653. The
eldest son of Bohdan Khmelnytsky; brother of Yurii
Khmelnytsky. In February–March 1648, his father left him as
a hostage with the Crimean khan, Islam-Girei III, to
guarantee their alliance. Later, as captain of Chyhyryn
company, he distinguished himself as a capable commander
in the Cossack-Polish War. In 1650 he led a large
Cossack-Tatar army against Moldavia, forcing the hospodar
of Moldavia, Vasile Lupu, to abandon his co-operation with
the Poles and form an alliance with the Cossacks instead. To
strengthen this alliance, Lupu promised his daughter,
Roksana Lupu, in marriage to Khmelnytsky, who led (in
1652) another army into Moldavia and married Roksana.
During this campaign his army participated in the Battle of
Batih, where the Cossacks scored a decisive victory over the
Poles. These developments made Moldavia's neighbors
uneasy; Prince György II Rákóczi of Transylvania and
hospodar Matei Basarab of Wallachia, fearing the growth of
Cossack influence in the region, supported a revolt by
Moldavian boyars against Lupu. Khmelnytsky led another Cossack army to Lupu's defense.
In May 1653, after early victories at Iaşi and Focśani, his army was defeated at Finta (17
May). That autumn Khmelnytsky came a second time to help his father-in-law; however, this
time he was killed in the Battle of Suceava. His death ended his father's attempts to develop
a Cossack-Moldavian alliance as the cornerstone of his foreign policy.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Vengrzhenovskii, S. ‘Svad'ba Timosha Khmel’nitskago (epizod iz istorii malorussko-
moldavskikh otnoshenii),’ KS, 1897, nos 3 and 5

Arkadii Zhukovsky

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[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]

List of related links from Encyclopedia of Ukraine pointing to Khmelnytsky, Tymish entry:

1 Basarab, Matei
2 Bessarabia
3 Bukovyna
4 Chernivtsi
5 Cossack-Polish War

6 History of Ukraine
7 Iaşi
8 Khmelnytsky, Bohdan
9 Khmelnytsky, Yurii
10 Khotyn

11 Kosach, Yurii
12 Lupu, Roksana
13 Lupu, Vasile
14 Moldavia
15 Nechai, Danylo

16 Romania
17 Subotiv
18 Suceava
19 Suceava, Battle of

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