Vasyl Kochubey

Vasily Leontiyevich Kochubey (, , romanized: Vasyl Leontiiovych Kochubei) (c. 1640 – 15 July 1708) was a statesman of the Cossack Hetmanate of Crimean Tatar descent. His tenure was characterized by Pro-Moscow policies and was cut short by his execution on Hetman Ivan Mazepa's orders. Kochubey's great-grandson was the eminent Imperial Statesman Viktor Kochubey. The family name is also spelled Kotchoubey (French) and Kotschoubey (German, Almanach de Gotha). Biography The grandson of the Crimean Tatar Kuchuk-bey, who left for Ukraine in the middle of XVII century and was baptized Andrey. Until 1675  he was a military chancellor of Hetmans I. Briukhovetskyi and P. Doroshenko 1675   – P.Doroshenko'sEnvoy to Turkey. 1676   – Envoy of Archbishop Lazar Baranovych to Moscow, 1676 – 1681   – a military chancellor under I. Samoilovych. 1681 – 1687   – he was a regent of the General Military Chancellery (1681 ) underI. Samoilovych, and also was in charge of hetman’s diplomatic relations with moscow tsars 1687 – 1699   – Secretary General. 1700 – 1708   – General Judge. Denunciation of Ivan Mazepa and execution The first document accusing Hetman Ivan Mazepa in betrayal and Hetman's negotiations with Poland was submitted by V. Kochubeyto Moscow in August 1707 from Baturyn through Nykanor, the monk of the Sevskyi Savior Monastery, who was interrogated in Preobrazhenskyi Prykaz, but at that time the case was suspended. Then, on September 16, 1707, Nykanor reported on what he had heard from the Kochubeys topantler, Duke F. Romodanovskyi. However, Peter I have checked the materials of the oral denunciation only in December 1707 and even after that he did not take it into account and did not believe the denunciation. The next informer from the judge general was Petro Yatsenko (Yakovlev). In January 1708, in Moscow he presented the main points of the denunciation to Tsarevych Oleksii, and accused Hetman Mazepa of having relations with Polish King Stanislaw Leszczynski and attempts to arrest Peter I. On 17 February 1708 the denunciation, written from the words of Kochubey and his relative Ivan Iskra was sent to Moscow by Okhtyrka Colonel Fedor Osypovwith the help of his clerk V. Kobeliatskyi. On March 1, 1708, Peter I wrote about the crime of Kochubey and Iskra to his bedchamber count Golovkin and secret secretary Shafirov, who were investigating the denunciation materials by his order. Mazepa was asked to arrest the informers.