Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski
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Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski (Template:Langx; Template:Langx; Template:Langx; 2 February 1526 – 13 or 23 February 1608) was a Ruthenian Orthodox magnate of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, a prince, starost of Volodymyr, marshal of Volhynia and voivode of the Kiev Voivodeship. Ostrogski refused to help False Dmitriy I and supported Jan Zamoyski.
BiographyEdit
The date of birth of Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski is disputed. According to some historians he was born around 1524/1525.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> He was born probably in Turów.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
He married in January 1553 in Tarnów.
In the 1570s he waged a war against another magnate, Stanisław Tarnowski, about disputed possession of estates in the area of Tarnów, in Lesser Poland.
Prince Ostrogski was of Eastern Orthodox faith and he was active in supporting the Orthodox Church (see Union of Brest). He was also a promoter of Eastern Christian culture in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Around 1576<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> he established the Ostroh Academy, a wellregarded humanist educational and scholarship institution, with the instruction in Greek, Latin and Old Church Slavonic languages. In 1581, the academy produced and published the Ostroh Bible, the first complete printed edition of the Bible in Old Church Slavonic.<ref>A Concise History of Poland, by Jerzy Lukowski and Hubert Zawadzki. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition 2006, Template:ISBN, p. 86-87</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> While Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski was the proponent of the Eastern Orthodox religion, his son Janusz Ostrogski converted to Roman Catholicism.
Ostrogski's huge latifundium, or landed estate in the eastern Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, consisted of 100 towns and 1300 villages.<ref name="Gierowski 193">Józef Andrzej Gierowski - Historia Polski 1505-1764 (History of Poland 1505-1764), p. 193, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe (Polish Scientific Publishers PWN), Warszawa 1986, Template:ISBN</ref> It was Ostrogski who built Starokostiantyniv Castle.
Ostroh boasted an Orthodox academy, a yeshiva, a mosque, and a Unitarian Church.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
He was canonized in the Orthodox Church of Ukraine as a Right-Believing prince.
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- Ostrozky, Kostiantyn Vasyl / Ostrozky in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993)
- a chapter of the "History of Rus" by Mykola Kostomarov devoted to "Knyaz Konstantin Konstantinovich Ostrozhskiy" Template:In lang