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Hryhoriy (Hrytsko) Savych Chorny (Ukrainian: Григорій (Грицько) Савич Чорний, Polish: Hryćko Czarny), died 1630, was a Hetman (Starshy) of the Registered Cossacks from 1628 to 1630. At the time, the larger bulk of unregistered Zaporizhian Cossacks elected Taras Fedorovych (Triasylo) as their popular leader.
In 1628 Chorny along with Mykhailo Doroshenko took part in the Crimean campaign against the Crimean Tatars. Following Doroshenko's death both Fedorovych and Chorny laid their claim to Hetmanship while only the latter's claim was recognized by the Polish Crown despite Fedorovych's unquestionably larger popular support.[citation needed]
In early 1630, hetman Chorny and government commissioner Adam Kisiel, due to instructions received from Field Crown Hetman Stanisław Koniecpolski, revised the Cossack register by excluding 300 Zaporizhian Cossacks. This action prompted the Fedorovych Uprising of unregistered Cossacks from the Bazavluk Sich against Chorny, who was captured by the rebels and had to stand trial before an unregistered Cossack military tribunal in Borovytsi (until 2020 a village in Chyhyryn Raion, now Cherkasy Raion, Cherkasy Oblast). He was found guilty and sentenced to death for the support of the Polish policies and the Union of Brest, a subtle attempt of Catholicization of unwilling traditionally Orthodox Ukrainians.[citation needed] Chorny was sentenced to death by beheading.[citation needed]
