Hanna Zolotarenko

Hanna Zolotarenko (Ukrainian: Ганна Золотаренко; also Anna, Ruthenian: Анна Богдановая Хмелницкая;[1] died after 1671), was the Hetmana of the Cossack Hetmanate by marriage to Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Hetman of Ukraine (r. 1648–1657).[2][3][4]

Originally from Korsun from bourgeois, jeweler family. In fact, she was the sister of the two colonels (Vasyl and Ivan Zolotarenko). Her first marriage was to a colonel Pylyp, who died, leaving her a widow.[3][4] With her first husband, the brother of Petro Doroshenko's mother, Anna Zolotarenko had a son, Kindrat.

After that she married with colonel Martyn Pylypenko and had a sons Danylo Pylypenko (the founder of the Datsenkos clan), Stefan, who lived in Korsun, and Osyp. All of them later were adopted by the hetman.

In 1651 she married Bohdan Khmelnytsky, as his third wife (his first wife, and mother of his children, had died young, while his second wife, Motrona, had been executed for supposed adultery and conspiracy by Bohdan's son, Tymish, earlier in 1651).[3]

Hanna Zolotarenko had political influence, had Universial (act) made in her own name, and took responsibility of the treasury. In 1671 she joined a monastery, taking the name Anastasiia.[3]

References

  1. ^ Універсали Богдана Хмельницького. 1998. p. 269. ISBN 9667217531.
  2. ^ Кривошея В. В. Козацька еліта Гетьманщини. К.: ІПіЕНД імені І. Ф. Кураса НАН України, 2008. — 452 с. — ISBN 978966024850
  3. ^ a b c d Kubijovyc, Volodymyr (1988-12-15). Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Volume II: G-K. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4426-5118-0.
  4. ^ a b Basilevsky, Alexander (2016-04-11). Early Ukraine: A Military and Social History to the Mid-19th Century. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-9714-0.
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