Hetman Sahaidachnyi’s sword will be temporarily brought to Ukraine for exhibition

Hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachnyi's sword, which is kept in Krakow, will be temporarily brought to Ukraine for display.

Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko stated this, the UP reports.

According to him, the sword should be brought in in 2022, on the 400th anniversary of the hetman's death.

"After the success of Pylyp Orlyk's exhibition of the Constitution, we continue this successful practice. It is important that Ukrainians can see invaluable monuments to the history of Ukraine. The decision to bring the sword of Petro Sahaidachnyi to Ukraine has already been by mouth approved by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland Piotr Gliński. The organization of this process is ahead," Oleksandr Tkachenko said.

Petro Sahaidachnyi's sword is kept in the armory of the Wawel Royal Castle in Krakow. In 1621, the future king of the Polish and Lithuanian Commonwealth, King Wladyslaw IV Vaz, presented it to Sahaidachnyi for the Cossacks' contribution to the victory in the Battle of Khotyn with the army of the Ottoman Empire.

To recap, for the 30th anniversary of Ukraine's independence, the original of Pylyp Orlyk's Constitution stored in Sweden was brought to the country for the first time.