Pavlo Polubotok was born around 1660 in Borzna (according to another version, at his family's khutor-farm Polubotivka, today part of Shramkivka) into a rich Cossack family and as a young man served under his relative Hetman Ivan Samoylovych.
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Pavel Polubotok was seen by many as a possible replacement for the disgraced Hetman, but the Russian Tsar Peter the Great distrusted Polubotok and supported Ivan Skoropadsky, who became the next Hetman.
Pavlo Skoropadskyi | Pavlo Tychyna | Pavlo Rebenok | Photo of Ukrainian Soviet newspaper article of the 1920s describing the circumstances of a fatal accident with Red Cossack, Kuzma Pavlo's son, Bublyk in 1925 in Izyaslav, Ukrainian Republic | photo of Ukrainian Soviet newspaper article of 1920s describing the circumstances of fatal accident with Red Cossack Kuzma Pavlo's son Bublyk in 1925 year in Izyaslav | Pavlo Lapshyn |