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Ivan Mazepa

1639 - 1709

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Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa (Ukrainian: Іван Степанович Мазепа; Polish: Jan Mazepa-Kołodyński; 30 March [O.S. 20 March] 1639 – 2 October [O.S. 21 September] 1709) was the Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host and the Left-bank Ukraine in 1687–1708. The historical events of Mazepa's life have inspired many literary, artistic and musical works. He was famous as a patron of the arts. Mazepa played an important role in the Battle of Poltava (1709), where after learning that Tsar Peter I intended to relieve him as acting hetman of Zaporozhian Host and to replace him with Alexander Menshikov, he defected from his army and sided with King Charles XII of Sweden. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ivan Mazepa is the 820th most popular politician (up from 920th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 34th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Ivan Mazepa was a Ukrainian Cossack Hetman who led a rebellion against Peter the Great in 1708.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ivan Mazepa ranks 820 out of 19,576. Before him are Michael VI Bringas, Feodor I of Russia, Robert Mugabe, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, Christian IV of Denmark, and Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria. After him are Æthelstan, Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Tamar of Georgia, Stefan Dušan, Bongbong Marcos, and Princess Ludovika of Bavaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1639, Ivan Mazepa ranks 2. Before him is Jean Racine. After him are Dom Pérignon, Marie Mancini, Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, Éléonore Desmier d'Olbreuse, Gottfried Kirch, Laura Martinozzi, Caspar Netscher, and Metacomet. Among people deceased in 1709, Ivan Mazepa ranks 1. After him are Andrea Pozzo, Giuseppe Torelli, Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Meindert Hobbema, François Louis, Prince of Conti, Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Henri Jules, Prince of Condé, François de la Chaise, Frederick VII, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, and Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Ivan Mazepa ranks 26 out of 1,365. Before him are Helena Blavatsky (1831), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Stanisław Lem (1921), Viktor Yushchenko (1954), Leonid Kuchma (1938), and Élie Metchnikoff (1845). After him are Stanisław Leszczyński (1677), Anna Akhmatova (1889), Yulia Tymoshenko (1960), Leonid Kravchuk (1934), Kliment Voroshilov (1881), and Nestor Makhno (1888).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Ivan Mazepa ranks 12. Before him are John III Sobieski (1629), Stepan Bandera (1909), Volodymyr Zelensky (1978), Hafsa Sultan (1479), Viktor Yushchenko (1954), and Leonid Kuchma (1938). After him are Stanisław Leszczyński (1677), Yulia Tymoshenko (1960), Leonid Kravchuk (1934), Kliment Voroshilov (1881), Sviatoslav I of Kiev (942), and Petro Poroshenko (1965).

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