Hanna Zolotarenko

Hanna Zolotarenko (Ukrainian: Ганна Золотаренко) (also Anna) (?–later than 1671), was the Hetmana of the Cossack Hetmanate by marriage to Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Hetman of Ukraine (r. 1648–1657).^[1][2][3] Originally from Korsun - in fact, she was the sister of the colonel of the Korsun regiment - her first marriage was to a Colonel Pylyp, who died, leaving her a widow.^[2][3] In 1651 she married Bohdan Khmelnytsky, as his third wife (his first wife, and mother of his children, had died young, while his second wife, Matrona, had been executed for supposed adultery and conspiracy by Bohdan's son, Tymish, earlier in 1651).^[2]

Hanna Zolotarenko

Hanna Zolotarenko had political influence, had Universial (act) made in her own name, and took responsibility of the treasury. In 1671 she joined a monastery, taking the name Anastasiia.^[2]