Ivan Sirko (Ukrainian: Іван Дмитрович Сірко, tr. Ivan Dmytrovych Sirko, Polish: Iwan Sierko, Russian: Иван Дмитриевич Серко, Ivan Dmitrievich Serko, c. 1610–1680) was a Ukrainian Cossack military leader, Koshovyi Otaman of the Zaporozhian Host and putative co-author of the famous semi-legendary Cossack letter to the Ottoman sultan that inspired the major painting Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks by the 19th-century artist Ilya Repin.
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1610 Murafa, Bracław Voivodeship
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1680 (aged 69) Hrushivka, Zaporizhian Host
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