Kyrylo Rozumovskyi

Who was Kyrylo Rozumovskyi?

Count Kyrylo Grygorovych Rozumovsky was a Ukrainian Registered Cossack from the Kozelets regiment in north-eastern Ukraine, who served as the last Hetman of Left- and Right-Bank Ukraine until 1764; Rozumovsky was subsequently elected Hetman of the sovereign Zaporozhian Host in 1759, a position that he managed to nominally preserve until 1769, even though he had lost all power to exercise this office and abdicated in November 1764.

Kyrylo Rozum was appointed President of the Russian Academy of Sciences when he just turned 18 years old due to the influence of his brother, Oleksiy Grygorovych Rozumovsky, the morganatic husband of Empress Elisabeth.

In 1750, he was elected and subsequently appointed Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks, a title he held until Catherine II of Russia forced him to abdicate in 1764. During his reign, Baturyn was re-established as capital of the Hetmanate and Rozumovsky had opulent baroque palaces erected both in Baturyn as well as in Hlukhiv by the imperial architect Andrey Kvasov and Charles Cameron. He also planned to open a Ukrainian university in Baturyn.