Vishnevetsky Explained

Vishnevetsky is a Ukrainian surname with the Polish equivalent as Wiśniowiecki.

Notable people with the surname include:

• Dmytro Vyshnevetsky (1516–1563), Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks
• Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (born 1986), Russian-born American film critic and essayist
• Igor Vishnevetsky (born 1964), Russian poet

History

• House of Wiśniowiecki, a Polish princely family of Ruthenian-Lithuanian origin

Places

• Vyshnivets, formerly known as Wiśniowiec, an urban-type settlement in the Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine

See also

• Vishnevsky, similar Russian surname
• Wiśniewski, similar Polish surname
• Vyšniauskas, similar Lithuanian surname