Andrij Savka / Andrew Sawka | |
Birth Date: | 13 December 1619 |
Birth Place: | Stebník |
Death Place: | Muszyna |
Death Cause: | hanging (capital punishment) |
Other Names: | Robin Hood of the Lemko region |
Occupation: | bandit |
Years Active: | 1638-1661 |
Criminal Penalty: | hung |
Andrij Savka (Ukrainian: Андрій Савка; alternatively Andrew Sawka; 13 December 1619 - 1661), was a Lemko region bandit/"Robin Hood" and folk hero from Dukla. He was born in 1619 in Stebník. In 1651, he led 500 men as part of a peasant revolt known as the Kostka-Napierski Uprising.[1] He was the son of a church cantor, and had some education.