and sang an Orthodox/Uniate religious song before his would-be assassination. He was not killed as the result. Illegitimate children could become only Uniate clergymen, not Roman Catholic ones. He then became a landlord, an influential Polish nobleman and the ancestor of Maksym Rylsky, who protected the memory of Zaliznyak and Khmelnitzky. In popular culture Taras Shevchenko's dedicated to haidamaks including Zalizniak his epic poem «Haidamaky». References Sources Great Soviet Encyclopedia 1740 births 1775 deaths Zaliznyak Zaliznyak Zaliznyak Koliivshchyna