Kodak Fortress

Kodak fortress was a post worked in 1635 by the request of the Polish ruler Wladyslaw IV Vasa and the Sejm on the Dnieper River close what might turn into the town of Stari Kodaky now close to the city of Dnipro in Ukraine. In 1711 as per the Treaty of the Pruth the fortification was wrecked by the Muscovites. It was built by Stanislaw Koniecpolski to control Cossacks of the Zaporizhian Sich, to keep Ukrainian workers from uniting with the Cossacks and to protect the southeastern corner of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

The Poles attempted to build up arrange here, and authorized French military cartographer and architect William le Vasseur de Beauplan to develop the post. Building cost around 100,000 Polish zlotys. The dragoon army was directed by the French officer Jean de Marion. Not long after development was finished in July 1635, in the Sulima Uprising, the Cossack powers of Ivan Sulima caught the post in an unexpected assault the evening of August 11/12, 1635. The Cossacks executed the whole German soldier of fortune battalion numbering 200 men and obliterated the fortification.

The Poles employed the German architect Friedrich Getkant and reconstructed Kodak, three times bigger, in 1639. The fortification contained a Catholic church with cloister and an Orthodox church. Its battalion expanded to 600, with cannons bolster. Around two miles outside of the fortification was raised a tremendous watch tower. The legislative head of that stronghold progressed toward becoming Jan Zoltowski while its commandant moved toward becoming Adam Koniecpolski a nephew of Stanislaw.