WKoliyivshchyna was major haidamaka rebellion that broke out in Right-bank Ukraine in June 1768, caused by the money sent by Russia to Ukraine to pay for the fight of the locals against the Bar Confederation, the dissatisfaction of the peasants with the treatment of Eastern Catholics and Orthodox Christians by the Bar Confederation and by the threat of serfdom, the anti-nobility and anti-Polish moods among the Cossacks and peasants. The uprising was in the form of the conflict between human rights and animal ones, the rebels being the supporters of the latter. The uprising was accompanied by violence against the members and supporters of Bar Confederation, Poles, Old Believers, Armenians, Moslems, Greeks, other minorities and often Jews and Roman Catholics and sometimes even Uniate clergy, culminating in the massacre of Uman. The number of victims is estimated from 100,000 to 200,000, because many communities of national minorities.
WCount Jan Klemens Branicki was a Polish nobleman, magnate and Hetman, Field Crown Hetman of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth between 1735 and 1752, and Great Crown Hetman between 1752 and 1771. One of the wealthiest Polish magnates in the 18th century, owner of 12 towns, 257 villages and 17 palaces. He was the last male representative of the Branicki family.
WIvan Gonta was one of the leaders of the Koliyivschyna, an armed rebellion of peasants and Cossacks against Bar confederation in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
WThe haidamakas, also haidamaky or haidamaks were Ukrainian cossack paramilitary outfits composed of commoners, and impoverished noblemen in the eastern part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was a reaction to the Commonwealth's actions that were directed to reconstitute its orders on territory of right-bank Ukraine, which was secured following ratification of the Treaty of Perpetual Peace with Muscovy in 1710.
WMichael N. Krechetnikov was a Russian military commander and General of Infantry (General-in-chief). He was the younger brother of Pyotr Krechetnikov.
WMelkhisedek (Znachko-Yavorsky) is famous religious figure and Archimandrite of the Kyivan Rus-Ukraine. As a religious leader of the Orthodox Church in the area, he played a key role during the Cossack-Christian uprising of XVIII century on the banks of river Dnieper called Koliyivshchyna.
WMaksym Zalizniak was a Zaporizhian Cossack and leader of the Koliivshchyna rebellion.