Career
He was a registered Cossack, belonging to the Chyhyryn Company (Chyhyryn Regiment). Early in his career he served as Bohdan Khmelnytsky"s courier and diplomatic emissary. He was elected Kosh otaman (1661-1663) of the Zaporozhian Sich.
At the Chorna rada of 1663 he was elected Hetman of the Left Bank with the support of Moscow as an alternative to already elected Hetman Pavlo Teteria.
Briukhovetsky"s election was at the roots of the division of the Cossack State and is known in history as The Ruin (Ukrainian history). However, Briukhovetsky"s reign and cruelty worked against him.
To gain support he signed the Moscow Articles of 1665, which placed Left Bank Ukraine under direct control of the Tsar. This treaty went on to be called the "Briukhovetsky treaty" and caused massive rebellion in Ukraine.
His popularity among the Clergy fell when he suggested that Moscow appoint and send a metropolitan to the Kievan Metropolia.
As his domestic policies failed, Briukhovetsky put the blame on the Russian authorities and sided with the Cossacks" rebellion in an attempt to save his reputation, but it was too late. Faced with his failures as hetman, in 1668 in the town of Budyshchi, a cossack mob killed him by chaining him to a cannon and beating him to death. After him was named one of kurins of the Zaporizhian Host and later after resettlement of cossacks stanitsa Bryukhovetskaya.