Biography of Zakhary Chepga

The version is known that Z. Chepig comes from an old Cossack family of Kulishi. But the employees of the State Archive of the Krasnodar Territory, preparing for the publication of the biography of the atamans, discovered a document indicating that the sister of Z. Chepigi - Daria was married to the fortress peasant Kulish, belonging to the landowner of the Poltava province, Major Levents.

More recently, a version of the Albanian origin of Z. Chepigi appeared, but the source needs to be tested. I have not received an education. At the age of 24, Chepga arrived in Zaporozhye. In October, during the First Russian-Turkish war, the Cossack flotilla in the Danube ensured the capture of the important fortress of Kiliya, the castle of Tulch and the fortress of Isakch.

Thanks to the skillful actions of the Cossack flotilla, almost the entire one hundred fruit Turkish fleet, defending the besieged Ishmael from the side of the Danube, went to the bottom. By the time of the elimination of the Zaporizhzhya Sich, Zakhary Chepiga was a colonel of the Protovchanskaya Palanca. In the manifesto on behalf of Catherine II it was said that Sich is destroyed forever, as the very name of the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks, for their daring acts and disobedience to the royal decrees.

The Cherpet did not know the letters of the case, others were signed for him. Taking advantage of the trip of the empress in the south of Russia in Kremenchug, a petition, where on behalf of the former Zaporizhzhya Cossacks they expressed a desire to take part in the upcoming war. The petition was accepted.

The Cossacks took a new name - the "army of faithful Cossacks", unlike the "infidels" who went to the Danube to Turkey. Catherine II granted the "army of faithful Cossacks" a large white banner with a black eagle and the inscription "For faith and fidelity", small banners for smokers, an Ataman mace, small chicken seals and a seal with the inscription "The seal of the faithful Cossacks." Ataman of the newly created troops of the faithful Cossacks became Sidor Bely, the commander of the cavalry - Zakhary Chepiga.

Therefore, by decree of the court of January 5th, the Cossacks were invited to sign up "foot at the military ataman Sidor Belago on the Zburyevsky side, and the horse-owned by Colonel of the Army of the Second Major Zakhary Chepig on Gromkl. With the city of the Danube Cossack flotilla did not allow the Turks to the Danube. Under Izmail, they raised the Cossacks in the Duna itself. unexpected place.

The army of faithful Cossacks began to be called the Black Sea to commemorate the victories. Golodnoye in the post of Cossack military judge. Potemkin, admiring the courage of the Chernomorets, gave them his own fishing places on the east coast of the Sea of ​​Azov. After the death of the chieftain S. Bely in a battle with the Turkish flotilla near Ochakov on June 11, Zakhary Alekseevich himself in the order A.

Golovatham on July 5, he further reported that he had an open sheet of July 3, and recommended notifying his appointment of all Cossacks. White - approx. White was mortally wounded by a Turkish bullet and soon died. The new ataman was Zakhary of Chepga. Small stature, stocky ... He enjoyed great respect among the Cossacks for prudence and courage. After lunch, in an hour in the 3rd, when I walked along the coast to Ochakov, I saw that many Zaporozhens were going in one heap.

Curiosity made him find out the reason. For Sim, it seemed somewhat more distant on one side of the circle, a newly elected and the brightest prince through an open sheet behind his own signing and the application of the coat of arms of his seal, approved by Kosheva, because their first Kosheva was mortally wounded on the Marine Battle of June and soon died later. This is their new Kosheva Z.

Tsebrikov R. around Ochakov. For the Turkish campaign of the chieftain, Chepug was awarded the rank of army foreman, awarded the orders of St. George of the 4th and 3rd degrees, St. Vladimir 3 tbsp. In the year, Zakhary Chepiga headed the resettlement of the Cossacks to the Kuban and determined the place for laying Yekaterinodar. During the Polish campaign, G. Chepga had a chance to command a brigade.

For participation in the attack of Prague, he received the Order of St. Vladimir 2nd degree. The Koshevoy Ataman of the Black Sea Cossack Army, Zahari Chepig, died, who had a week earlier by the “lung column”. The State Archive of the Krasnodar Territory contains a description of the funeral ceremony of the Koshevoy Ataman, compiled by the military clerk Timofei Kotlyarevsky.

The coffin of the chieftain was carried on a chariot drawn by six crow horses, on both sides of it walked along six foremen with lighted candles, they carried a lid in front, with a cross -shaped two sabers - tsarist and hetman, that is, with sabers donated by the Queen of Catherine II and Prince Permkin. Nearby led two beloved riding horses of Chepigi and his rewards were carried on a thin green cloth on the pads of thin green cloth.

All military regalia accompanied the Koshevye to the last journey ... The procession stopped twelve times, and twelve times the military priest read the Gospel, after which the foot and horse Cossacks fired from their rifles, and the gunner shot from a three -pound military gun. Under the cannon salute, the coffin was lowered into the grave. The military clerk T.

Kotlyarevsky reported A. After the construction of the cathedral, the grave of the chieftain was under his floor, and subsequently forgot about it as others.