Hanna Zolotarenko (; also Anna, Ruthenian: Анна Богдановая Хмелницкая; died after 1671), was the Hetmana of the Cossack Hetmanate by marriage to Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Hetman of Ukraine (r. 1648–1657).Кривошея В. В. Козацька еліта Гетьманщини. К.: ІПіЕНД імені І. Ф. Кураса НАН України, 2008. — 452 с. —
Originally from Korsun from bourgeois, jeweler family. In fact, she was the sister of the two colonels (Vasyl and Ivan Zolotarenko). Her first marriage was to a colonel Pylyp, who died, leaving her a widow. With her first husband, the brother of Petro Doroshenko's mother, Anna Zolotarenko had a son, Kindrat.
After that she married with colonel Martyn Pylypenko and had a sons Danylo Pylypenko (the founder of the Datsenkos clan), Stefan, who lived in Korsun, and Osyp. All of them later were adopted by the hetman.
In 1651 she married Bohdan Khmelnytsky, as his third wife (his first wife, and mother of his children, had died young, while his second wife, Motrona, had been executed for supposed adultery and conspiracy by Bohdan's son, Tymish, earlier in 1651).
Hanna Zolotarenko had political influence, had Universial (act) made in her own name, and took responsibility of the treasury. In 1671 she joined a monastery, taking the name Anastasiia.
Further reading Кривошея, Володимир Володимирович. Національна еліта Гетьманщини : персональний склад і генеалогія козацької старшини, 1648-1782 рр. [Національна Академія Наук України. Інститут Політичних і Етнонаціональних Досліджень], 1998.
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