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Mykhailo Tchaikovsky (September 29, 1804, Galchyn, Zhytomyr County, Volyn Province - January 4, 1886, Birky, Kozeletsky District, Chernihiv Province), aka Mehmet Sadyk Pasha. Ukrainian nobleman, a descendant of Hetman Ivan Bryukhovetskyi. Participant of the November Uprising of 1830-1831, after which he was forced to fight his way through the then border of the Russian Empire.
During his emigration, he plunged into literary creativity and the world of adventures and intrigues. He was the initiator and participant in the coup d'état in Serbia to eliminate Russian influence in that country. Tried to organize an uprising in Bulgaria. He became a friend of the Bosnian and Montenegrin elites and acted as their intermediary in relations with the High Porte. He emigrated to Istanbul. He gained influence at the Sultan's court and used it to create the Ottoman Cossack Corps. Fought against Russian troops during the Crimean War. He was the commandant of Bucharest. He pushed for the redeployment of his Cossacks to the Caucasus to enter into contacts with the Kubans and open a new front.
Mikhail Tchaikovsky left memories of such an adventurous life in Polish in two books - "Memoirs of Sadik Pasha" and "Campaign over the Danube and in Muntenia during the Crimean War 1854-1855". They are being published in Ukrainian for the first time, and the translation of the second part was made from the author's manuscripts that had not been published before.