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Ivan Yuryevich Serbin Іван Юрійович Серьбин; Novi Pazar, Ottoman Empire. c. 1620 — Uman', Slobozhanshchina, 1665) was an Uman Cossack colonel of the Zaporizhian Host and one of the associates of Bohdan Khmelnytsky[1].
Biography
[edit]By origin, Serb. Ivan Serbin joined the Cossack Army of Zaporizhia in 1653 and, thanks to his bravery and education, attracted the attention of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Serbin formed and headed the Serbian company (mercenary hussar cavalry) regiment, and in 1657 Bohdan Khmelnytsky appointed Serbin as a Bratslav colonel. Ivan Serbin remained in this position during the hetmanate of Ivan Vyhovsky. Serbin fought against the Muscovites under Vyhovsky's command, took part in suppressing the uprising of Martyn Pushkar and in Danilo Vyhovsky's attack on Kyiv in 1658. During the siege of Kyiv, he was captured by the voivode Vasily Borisovich Sheremetev and sent to Moscow. During interrogation in Moscow, Serbin said that he was a native of the Serbian city of Novi Pazar, a nobleman by origin and a relative of the Serbian Metropolitan Gavrilo [1].
The ambassadors of the new hetman Yuri Khmelnitsky in December 1659 "beat their foreheads so that the sovereign would order the release of the prisoners, Ivan Serbin and others" [2]. The tsar forgave Serbin and in 1660 he returned to Ukraine, settling in Korsun. After Ivan Bryukhovetsky was elected hetman, Ivan Serbin was again appointed a Bratslav colonel in 1663 and was one of the leaders of the uprising in Right-Bank Ukraine in 1663-1665.
In 1664-1665 he fought against the Poles and Hetman Pavlo Teteria:
“Ivan Serbin, by faithfully serving the tsar, smoothed over his former friendship with Ivan Vyhovsky: leaving Uman, he took three cities from the Poles: Babany, Kosenovka and Kislyak from the Poles there. The Poles followed him to Uman, but Serbin, having made a sortie, killed 120 people on the spot, and drove the others, alive, like sheep, into the city”[2]. Ivan Serbin died in that battle with the Poles near Uman' in 1665[1].