Council of Officers (Hetmanate)

General offiers (Template:Lang-uk, Heneralna starshyna) of Zaporizhian Host was the highest state administration of Cossack Hetmanate. General officers took part in the General Military Council and along with colonels composed the Council of Officers (Template:Lang-uk). In a peacetime the general officers were acting as ministers.

Composition

• General Quartermaster (Template:Lang-uk, Heneralny Obozny)
• General Judge (Template:Lang-uk, Heneralny Suddya)
• General Secretary (Template:Lang-uk, Heneralny Pysar)
• General Lieutenant of Treasury (Template:Lang-uk, Heneralny Pidskarbiy)
• General of Banner (Template:Lang-uk, Heneralny Khorunzhy)
• General of Bunchuk (Template:Lang-uk, Heneralny Bunchuzhny)
• General Captain (Template:Lang-uk, Heneralny Osavul)

Council of Officers (Council of General Officers)

General officers were headed by the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host. During times of Kyrylo Rozumovsky (1750-64), the Council of Officers completely overtook all functions of the General Military Council.

After the death of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, the Council of Officers (Template:Lang-uk, Rada Starshyn) became the main state body that was electing the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host as well as other key administrative state posts. It reviewed decisions of the General Chancellery, and appellation to the decisions of the General Court and the General Chancellery. The council consisted of the most wealthy and influential representatives of officers' families. After the complete abolition of Hetman post, it was subordinated to the Collegiate of Little Russia for a short period.

Key roles

• Decision on the most important political, administration and military issues
• Conducting diplomatic relations
• Headed financial and judicial institutions as well as the Armed Forces

External links

• Handbook on history of Ukraine
• General officers at website of the Institute of History of Ukraine