Petro Mukha

Petro Mukha (fl. 1490) was a Ukrainian rebel, military leader and Ukrainian national hero, best known as the leader of the eponymous Mukha Rebellion against Polish and Moldavian magnates and noblemen in Galicia and Bukovina.[1] This uprising was one of the largest of the 15th and 16th century in the area, together with Severyn Nalyvaiko's.[2]

Petro Mukha
Born15th century
Bukovina or Pokuttia
Diedc. 1492
Kraków, Kingdom of Poland
AllegianceCossacks
Ukrainian and Moldavian peasants
Rankcommander
UnitMukha's 10,000
Battles/warsBattle of Rohatyn

Biography

Between 1490 and 1492 he led an army of 10,000 people, both Ukrainians and Moldavians, as well as a number of other people and Orthodox petty nobles, in an attempt to overthrow the Polish in Galicia.[3][2][4] The revolt erupted in Pokuttia, quickly spreading to other parts of Galicia. The rebellious army proceeded through the territory, taking the cities of Halych, Sniatyn, and Kolomyia.[5][2]

Mukha and his army were blocked by a combined force of Polish Royal army, a levée en masse summoned by Galician noblemen, and Prussian mercenaries. Many of the rebellious army's warriors died in the Battle of Rohatyn, near Rohatyn. Mukha and the survivors fled back to Moldavia. They returned to Galicia in 1492, in an attempt to stir up another rebellion.[5][6]

Mukha was captured near Kolomyia, and died in the dungeons of a prison in Kraków.[5]

Volodymyr Hrabovetsky wrote a book about Mukha's rebellion, which was published in Kyiv in 1979.[5]

References
  1. "Bukovyna". Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 22 June 2021. From 1387 to 1497 Moldavia recognized the nominal supremacy of Poland. In this period the people of Bukovyna took part in the Mukha rebellion against the Polish and Moldavian nobles (1490–2)
  2. Ivan Katchanovski, Zenon E. Kohut, Bohdan Y. Nebesio, Myroslav Yurkevich (2013). Historical Dictionary of Ukraine. Scarecrow Press. pp. 64–66. ISBN 9780810878471.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  3. Paul R. Magocsi (2010). A History of Ukraine The Land and Its Peoples. University of Toronto Press. p. 140. ISBN 9781442610217.
  4. Krystian Heffner, Marek Sobczyński, ed. (2009). Historical Regions Divided by the Borders: Cultural heritage and multicultural cities. University of Łódź, Department of Political Geography and Regional Studies. p. 147. ISBN 9788371262524.
  5. "Mukha Rebellion". Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  6. "Bukovyna". Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
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