Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski
Noble person
1526 – 1608
Who was Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski?
Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski was a magnate of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, a prince, starost of Volodymyr-Volynskyi, marshal of Volhynia and voivode of the Kiev Voivodeship. Ostrogski refused to help False Dmitriy I and supported Jan Zamoyski.
In 1570s he waged a war against another magnate, Stanisław Tarnowski, about disputed possession of estates in the area of Tarnów, in Lesser Poland.
Prince Ostrogski was of Eastern Orthodox faith and he was active in protecting the rights of the Orthodox Church and promoting the culture of the Christian Orthodox religion in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1576 he established the Ostroh Academy, a highly regarded humanist educational and scholarship institution, with the instruction in Greek, Latin and Old Church Slavonic languages. In 1581 the Academy produced and published the Ostrog Bible, the fundamental Orthodox Bible.
Ostrogski's huge latifundium, or landed estate in the eastern Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, consisted of 100 towns and 1300 villages. It was Ostrogski who built Starokostiantyniv Castle.
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- Born
- Feb 12, 1526
Ostroh - Also known as
- Knyaz Konstantin Konstantinovich Ostrozhskiy
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- Nationality
- Ukraine
- Died
- Feb 13, 1608
Ostroh
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on July 23, 2013
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