| Wedding campaign of Tymofiy Khmelnytsky | |||||||
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| Part ofKhmelnytsky Uprising | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Moldavia |  Cossack Hetmanate | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Vasile Lupu | Tymofiy KhmelnytskyOsip Glukh | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| Unknown | 6,000[1] | ||||||
TheWedding campaign of Tymofiy Khmelnytskyin 1652 was a campaign in Moldavia byBohdan Khmelnytsky'seldest son to force the Moldavian voivode to marry off his daughterRuxandra Lupu to him, as had been arranged in 1650 after Khmelnytsky's first campaign into Moldavia.
Vasile Lupu, the ruler of the principality, maintained friendly relations withBohdan Khmelnytsky from October 1648, but he also sent information about the state of theZaporozhian Army to Warsaw and lent the royal government money to hire soldiers. TheHetman decided to wage a campaign to further tieMoldavia to theHetmanate Khmelnytsky convinced his ally, the khanİslâm III Giray to accompany him on a campaign to Moldavia, mentioning the Moldavian attacks onTatar detachments returning from thePolish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1648.[2]
Having crossed theDniester with the Tatars, the hetman occupiedIași in September 1650, and then demanded an alliance in an ultimatum, which was to be secured by the marriage of the voivode's daughterRuxandra to Khmelnytsky's sonTymofiy. While tying Moldavia toUkraine, this marriage would tie the Cossack leader to the various noble and royal families of eastern Europe.[2]
In the aftermath of theBattle of Berestechko, Vasile Lupu refused to fullfil his obligations to the Cossacks.[3][2] Following theBattle of Batih, the Cossacks were once again in a position to invade Moldavia.
In the aftermath of Batih, theUman Regiment led by Tymofiy, which took part in the battle, headed towardsKamianets-Podilskyi and besieged it. After the failure of the siege, Tymofiy crossed the border into Moldavia and set off with the regiment to the Moldavian capital ofIași,[4] forcingVasile Lupu to go through with the 1650 arrangement. TheMoldavian voivode was impressed with the regiment's performance and attempted to enlist the support of Colonel Osip Glukh in difficult circumstances for himself.[5] The wedding took place inIași on either the 21[6] or the 31[4] of August 1652, and in early September Tymofiy returned to Ukraine with his wife.[1]
The marriage did not bring theHetman the expected benefits. In the spring of 1653, another dynastic rebellion broke out in Moldova, in which the pretender to the throne,Gheorghe Ștefan, was supported byTransylvania andWallachia. The Zaporozhian army led byTymofiy Khmelnytsky once againinvaded Moldavia. This campaign would prove to be a failure, and fatal for Tymofiy.[1]