APOSTLE Danylo

Apostol, Daniel P., malorossiysky Hetman (1654 - 1734). His father, Paul Yefremovich was Mirgorod Colonel (1659, 1660, 1671 - 1673, 1676 - 1678 years). A. in 1682 also consisted Mirgorod Colonel. Mazeppa, on achieving Hetman, pursued a. as adherent Samoilovych and stripped of his rank, but not for long: in 1693 he again was Mirgorod Colonel. Sent along with the other colonels pursue Petrik - troop clerk, who fled to the Crimea and declared himself hetman - A. fought it successfully for three years and not once broke his. During the first Azov campaign mastered the Turkish forts near the mouth of the Dnieper.

In 1696, a. and Gadyach Colonel Borukhovich smashed on the Vorskla Crimean Khan, again swept in Ukraine together with Petrik, who in this battle was killed. In 1701, as nakaznym hetman, A. under the command of Sheremeteva participated in the campaign against Livonia and in the victory at Erestfere. In 1704 A. sent to Poland from 3000 Cossacks to help King Augustus; worked there successfully, but soon returned to the Ukraine illegally, because they do not tolerate severities Patkul.

In 1706 A. was defeated by the Swedes under Kletsk. Attracted to the case Kochubei and Sparks, A. acquitted Mazepa, who wrote about it to Peter: "And. Wallachian breed, a man from his father honored in the army, the warrior kind, from all the colonels of the long-standing, old, honorable, he earned the honor and love from all the regiments ". When Mazepa joined the Swedish king, A. was with him, but then wrote a greeting the new hetman, Skoropadsky, asking him to intercede for him before the king. In 1722 A. sent to 10000 Cossacks in Persia, but after a year. was instructed to guard the border against the Tartars and the Cossacks.

On his return he was summoned to Petersburg, where judged Polubotok and Ukrainian elders, protesting against the new order imposed by Peter the Ukraine. Catherine I forgave the elders, but told them, including the AA, to live in St. Petersburg. When Peter II restored the right to elect Cossacks hetman, A. Rada was elected to this position in Glukhov October 1, 1727. A. pleaded old age (70 years), but then agreed to be hetman.

Its selection, apparently, was held at the request of the Government. Son of A., Paul, was sent to a hostage in Russia. Sam A. was graciously accepted by Peter II of Moscow and brought the Emperor approved items for which restored the former elected administration, the court, the army treasury, destroyed the taxes imposed malorossiyskoy College. Anna of Russia also belonged to a. and Ukraine favorably.

Died A. in with. Sorochintsy, where he spent his last years, engaged in cultivation of gardens. - U A. had two sons: 1) Pavel, who was elected Colonel Mirgorod day of election of his father in the hetman, and 2) Peter Lubenskiy colonel in 1728, highly educated, he was among the MPs, greeted the Empress Elizabeth's ascension to the throne. The daughter of Hetman, Martha Danilovna, was married to the son Kochubei Vasily, Colonel Poltava.