UKRDOUG Castle Tours - Zbarazh Castle Traditional Cache
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UKRDOUG Castle Tours - Zbarazh Castle
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Zbarazh Castle If you are feeling adventurous, you can drive to the nearby village of Stary (Old) Zbarazh to see the ruins of a Gediminid castle.
NOTE: Please put the cache back exactly how you found it. Wedge it into its hideaway so that it does not fall down and become visibly exposed. The last two brothers of the Zbaraski family moved their residence from nearby Stary (Old) Zbarazh to the hill overlooking the new town of Zbarazh in the early 17th century. Krzysztof was the older brother and was Master of the Stables of the Crown within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He also served as the Commonwealth ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1622-1624. His brother, Jerzy, served first as the Crown Carver and later became the Crown Cupbearer. Both died without an heir and when Jerzy died in 1631, the Zbaraski estate was passed to their closest male relative Jeremi Wisniowiecki who was Crown Equerry. Jeremi would build an empire that would encompass 38,000 homesteads inhabited by 230,000 of his subjects. He would be the Prince of Ruthenia and the father of the future Polish King Michal I. Zbarazh Castle became famous during the Cossack rebellion led by Bogdan Khmelnitsky from 1648-1654. A Cossack detachment led by Maksym Kryvonis captured the Zbarazh Castle without much of a fight in 1648 when Jeremi Wisniowiecki was away on another campaign. The Cossacks sacked the castle and left. The Cossack troops returned a year later, but this time Jeremi Wisniowiecki was home and a one-month siege began. Sixteen battles were fought and several prominent Cossacks were killed. Eventually Bogdan Khmelnitsky had to lift the siege because his Tatar allies had deserted him and the Polish army was approaching. Henryk Sienkiewicz immortalized the siege in his novel “With Fire And Sword”. The Polish director Jerzy Hoffman later turned the novel into a film. The Turks captured the castle in their invasion of 1675. Later Russian Czar Peter the Great and the Cossack Hetman Ivan Mazepa met together in the castle in 1707 during the Great Northern War between Russia and Sweden. The castle belonged briefly to the wealthy Potocki family in the 18th century until it was taken by Russia. The Russians took it again in 1914 and it sustained much damage. It is currently being renovated and parts of it serve as an ethnographic and national art museum. The castle in Stary Zbarazh was built around 1211 by the Gediminid Dynasty, monarchs of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The last owners were the Zbaraski family before building their New Castle in the modern town of Zbarazh.
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