Starodub Regiment
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| Starodub Regiment | |||||||||
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| Regiment of Cossack Hetmanate | |||||||||
| 1663–1782 | |||||||||
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| Capital | Starodub | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1663 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1782 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Russia | ||||||||
Starodub Regiment (Ukrainian: Стародубський полк, Russian: Стародубский полк) was an administrative unit of the Cossack Hetmanate centered in Starodub and encompassing the northernmost part of Left-bank Ukraine.[1] Its former territory currently belongs to Bryansk Oblast of Russia.[2]
Starodub became a regimental town of the Cossack Hetmanate in 1648. Between 1654 and 1663 the regiment's territory was subordinate to Nizhyn Regiment, after which it became a separate administrative unit. In different periods it consisted of 7 to 11 sotnias.[3]
In 1669, under the influence of archbishop Lazar Baranovych, Cossack starshyna of Starodub Regiment supported the candidacy of Demian Mnohohrishny as "hetman of Siveria" along with their counterparts from Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi Regiments.[4] During the Great Northern War the regiment's territory was devastated by troops of the Tsardom of Russia.[5]
In the 18th century it was one of 10 Cossack regiments into which the Hetmanate was administratively divided.[6] During the middle and latter part of the 18th century the regiment was engulfed by peasant revolts directed against enserfment of the local population.[7][8] In 1782 the regiment's territory was incorporated into Novgorod-Seversky Viceroyalty.[3]
