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Colonel of the Zaporozhian Host: The Right to Free Elections in Light of Cossack Traditions, Prescribed Regulations, and Political Realities

Viktor Horobets · In Eighteenth-Century Ukraine (McGill-Queen's University Press), pp. 219–246 · 2023

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Type: Article
Author: Viktor Horobets
Identifier: DOI 10.1515/9780228017431-012
Accessed: 2026-09-01

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EstablishedThe Zaporozhian Host was governed by a general assembly (rada) that elected and could depose its senior officers, including the kish otaman, while Cossacks lived in kurins that elected their own otamans.EstablishedBy the eighteenth century, Cossack elections coexisted with imperial restrictions and the dominance of a wealthy officer group, so that the formal right of free election was constrained in practice.