The list includes only hetmans who belonged to the Cossack Hetmanate. For a full list of all Hetmans of Ukrainian Cossacks, see
Hetmans of Ukrainian Cossacks.
Notes . Some historians, including
Mykola Arkas, question the legitimacy of the Teteria's elections, accusing him of corruption. Some sources claim that the election of Teteria took place in January 1663. The election of Teteria led to the Povoloch Regiment Uprising in 1663, followed by greater unrest in the modern region of
Kirovohrad Oblast, as well as
Polesie (all in the
Right-bank Ukraine). Coincidentally, on 10 January 1663 the
Tsardom of Muscovy created the new
Little Russian Office (
Prikaz) within its Ambassadorial Office. Vouched for by
Charles Marie François Olier, marquis de Nointel,
Yurii Khmelnytsky was freed from Ottoman captivity and, along with Pasha Ibragim, was sent to Ukraine to fight the Moscow forces of Samoilovych and Romadanovsky. In 1681,
Mehmed IV appointed
George Ducas hetman of Ukraine, replacing Khmelnytsky. Following the
anathema on Mazepa and the election of
Ivan Skoropadsky, the Cossack Hetmanate was included in the Russian
Government of Kiev in December 1708. Upon the death of Skoropadsky, the elections oh hetmans were discontinued and were awarded as a gift and a type of princely title, first to Moldavian noblemen and, later, to the Russian Empress's favorites. On 5 April 1710, the council of cossacks, veterans of the Battle at Poltava, elected
Pylyp Orlyk as the Hetman of Ukraine in exile. Orlyk waged a
guerrilla war at the southern borders of the
Russian Empire with support from the Ottoman and Swedish empires. ==See also==