After this person had him arrested, Jan Chryzostom Pasek (“yahn hree-ZO-stome PAH-sek”) possibly made up a story about this person being beaten up by his neighbor after he had an affair with his wife. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Cossack hetman and Ukrainian national hero. After he learned he was about to be replaced by Alexander Menshikov, this person defected during the Battle of Poltava.
ANSWER: Ivan Mazepa [or Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa]
[10e] Ivan Mazepa fought on both sides of this war’s Battle of Poltava. Charles XII was killed during this war that cemented the dominance of Peter the Great’s Russia.
ANSWER: Great Northern War
[10h] Mazepa’s primary military and political support came from a Zaporozhian one of these fortifications. These fortifications, which name several Cossack governments, come from the Ukrainian word “to chop.”
ANSWER: siches (“SEECH’s”) [or sich]
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