The Kropyvna Regiment (Ukrainian: Кропивнянський полк, romanized: Kropyvniantskyi polk) was one the territorial-administrative subdivisions of the Cossack Hetmanate. The regiment's capital was the city of Kropyvna, now a village in Cherkasy Oblast of central Ukraine.
Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky disbanded the regiment in 1658 after death of colonel Filon Dzhelaliy. The regiments sotnias were all transferred to recreated Irkliiv Regiment and Lubny Regiment.[1]
Structure
The regiment comprised 14 sotnias with 2010 cossacks: Zaruba and Kryvoshyia give the regiment 1992 cossacks in 1649.[4] Giving 3 Irkliiv companies 631 cossacks, the register lists them having 640. Also 2 Pyriatyn companies had 307, as opposed to registers 306. Other discrepancies are shown in ( ). In 1650 register sent by Bohdan Khmelnytsky to Alexis of Russia, strength of regiment is given at 2053.[5]
^ abcMaksimovich, Mikhail (1886). Собрание сочинений [Collected Works] (in Russian). Kyiv. pp. 712–714.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Gajecky, George (1978). The Cossack administration of the Hetmanate. Vol. II. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. pp. 633–634. ISBN0-916458-02-4.
^Адміністративно-територіальний поділ Полтавщини (1648–2012 рр.) [Administrative-territorial division of Poltava Oblast (1648–2012)] (in Ukrainian). Poltava: ТОВ «АСМІ». 2012. pp. 14–15. ISBN978-966-182-203-9.
^Krjvosheja, Volodymyr (2008). Козацька еліта Гетьманщини [Cossack elite of the Hetmanate] (in Ukrainian). Kyiv. p. 101. ISBN978-966-02-4850-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Levytsky, Orest (1878). Літопис Самовидця [Chronicle of Samovidets] (in Russian). Kyiv. p. 228.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Gajecky, George (1978). The Cossack administration of the Hetmanate. Vol. I. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. p. 338. ISBN0-916458-02-4.
Sources
Заруба, Віктор (2007), Адміністративно-територіальний устрій та адміністрація Війська Запорозького у 1648-1782 рр. [Administrative-territorial structure and administration of the Zaporizhzhya Army in 1648-1782.] (in Ukrainian), Dnipro: Lira, ISBN978-966-383-095-7
Hrushevsky, Mykhailo (2015), Том 10. Книга 1: Історичні студії та розвідки (1924— 1930) [Volume 10. Book 1: Historical studies and investigations (1924—1930)] (in Ukrainian), Lviv: Svit, ISBN978-966-603-223-5