Word: poltava
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leadership among them. When Charles XII began his invasion of Russia, Mazepa, to the disgust of most of his Cossacks, seemed to be loyal to Czar Peter the Great. Later he switched his allegiance, thereby thoroughly confusing nearly everybody. Defeated with his Swedish allies at the battle of Poltava, Mazepa fled into Turkey where he soon died of exhaustion...