Right-bank Ukraine Orthodox. In 1764, on the territory of the Zaporozhian Host and along the southern borders of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Russian Empire created the New Russia Governorate in place of the previously-existing New Serbia province and intensively militarised the region. Preparations for the uprising against the Bar Confederation and the initial raid of the Cossack detachment of Maksym Zalizniak started at the Motrynine Saint Trinity Monastery (now a covenant in Cherkasy Raion), a hegumen of which was Archimandrite Melkhisedek (Znachko-Yavorsky), who also served as the director of all Orthodox monasteries and churches in Right-bank Ukraine (in 1761–1768). The peasant rebellion quickly gained momentum and spread over the territory from the right bank of the Dnieper River to the river Sian (San). The Massacre of Uman had many Poles, Jews, and Uniates herded into their churches and synagogues and killed in cold blood, but Uniates were not the victims in other places: In three weeks of unbridled violence, the rebels slaughtered 20,000 people, according to numerous Polish sources. The leaders of the uprising were Zaporozhian Cossacks, mainly Maksym Zalizniak, and a commander of a private militia of the owner of Uman, Ivan Gonta. He was the commander of Potocki's private Uman city Cossack militia garrison, which later joined Zalizniak at Uman. The governor and other Polish nobles supporting the Bar Confederation capitulated since they knew that Gonta had been dispatched by Polish Count Franciszek Salezy Potocki to protect Uman by a secret mission. They mistakenly thought that the rebels supported the Polish king, as did Potocki. However, the insurgents were for the Zaporozhian Host of Right-Bank Ukraine. Eventually, the uprising was crushed by Russian troops, Ukrainian-registered Cossacks of Left-Bank Ukraine and the Zaporozhian Host, aided by Polish army. The two major leaders were arrested by Russian troops on 7 July 1768. Ivan Gonta was handed over to Polish authorities, who tortured him to death, and Maksym Zalizniak was exiled to Siberia. The rebellion was suppressed by the joint forces of Polish and Russian armies, with numerous hangings, decapitations, quarterings and impalings of Polish subjects and of the Russian subjects who were captured by governmental Polish forces themselves. In popular culture Taras Shevchenko's epic poem Haidamaky (The Haidamakas) chronicles the events of the Koliivshchyna. The event also inspired recent artwork during the latest Ukrainian unrest. Controversy On 17 May 2018 the Kyiv City Council voted to hold events marking 250