Bohdan chmielnicki biography for kids

Bohdan Zinovoy Mykhaylovych Khmemelnytsky (that being his Ukrainian name; he was known in Polish as Bohdan Zenobi Chmielnicki, and in Russian as Bogdan Khmelnitsky) (c.1595 - August 6, 1657) was a Zaporizhzhya (Zaporozhian) Cossackhetman of Ukraine, noted for his revolt against Poland which began in 1648, and for instigating a massacre of the Jews.

He was born in Chigirin[?], in the Ukraine, and educated by Jesuits. However, unlike many of their other pupils, Chmielnicki did not embrace Roman Catholicism, but early in life became a champion of the Greek Orthodox faith, to which most of the Cossacks and the Little-Russian peasants belonged.

While still in the subordinate position of a "sotski" (an officer over a hundred) of the Cossacks, subject to the Polish magnate Koniecpolski, he was deprived by Chaplinski, the bailiff of Chigirin, of his estate of Subotovo. Chaplinski availed himself of Chmielnicki's absence to make a raid on the place, during whic