the younger brother of IvanZolotarenko, and his sister Hanna Zolotarenko married hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky. He opposed hetman Ivan Vyhovsky's Treaty of
1655, it was seized and devastated by Cossacks under the command of IvanZolotarenko during the Russo-Polish war. It was then passed to another set of owners
ISBN 978-9986-39-520-1. Stone, David R. (2006). A military history of Russia: From Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 37. ISBN 0-275-98502-4