| Siege of Pereiaslav | |||||||
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| Part of Russo-Polish War (1654–1667) | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth  Cossack hetmanate.svg){kind=small} Crimean Khanate |
.svg){kind=small} Russia Cossack hetmanate | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Yuri Khmelnitsky |
Prince Vasily Bogdanovich Yakym Somko | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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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]
- ^ Pavlishchev, Nikolaĭ Ivanovich (1887). Польская анархия при Янѣ Казимирѣ и война за Украину [Polish anarchy under Jan Kazimierz and the war for Ukraine] (in Russian). 2. изд. В.С. Балашева. p. 289.