polish hedmann the end of poland fought with emelnitsky at the yellow waters, as a result his army fledthe end of polski and hetman pototsky were captured. khmelinsky sent the prisoner to kiev and moved on. the uprising swept both banks of the dnieper and took on the bloodiest forms. as a rule, the leader of the uprising. coming towards him. on september 9, 1648 , the battle of piliavtsy took place. the armies were separated by a forest, a river and a swamp. two roads led towards each other, one straight, through the area above the river, the second - around the forest. deciding to deceive the poles, khmelnitsky sent them supposedly defectors. these people understood that they were going to be tortured. promising support and offering to recognize his cossacks' interest. in return, khmelnitsky stopped hostilities. but in parallel with cunning maneuvers, he constantly sent letters to tsar alexei in moscow, begging him to accept little russia under the high hand of the white tsar. now in moscow there was no time for that, but the thought settled in the head of tsar alexei mikhalovich. jan