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Pavlo Polubotok (c. 1660 - 1724) - Ukrainian military and political figure. Colonel of Chernihiv, acting hetman of the Zaporozhian Army of Left-Bank Ukraine (1722-1724). Hetman of the Hlukhiv period in the history of Ukraine. During the Northern War, he sided with Peter I. Arrested for signing the Kolomatsky Petitions and opposing the activities of the Little Russian Collegium. Died in captivity on the territory of the Peter and Paul Fortress. The legend of "Polubotok's Gold" is a legend about a large amount of gold that in 1723 the Ukrainian hetman Pavlo Polubotok allegedly left for safekeeping in one of the English banks.