# Old Barabash — With Fire and Sword character guide

> Old Barabash in With Fire and Sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Barabash

**First appearance:** 0005-vi

## Who they are

An old Cossack colonel who opposes Hmelnitski.

## In the story

### [Chapter II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/with_fire_and_sword_se/chapters/ii)

Warns of the rebellion and falls asleep during the discussion.

### [Chapter III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/with_fire_and_sword_se/chapters/iii)

Mentioned as a colonel whose power is feeble; Bogun exercises the power of colonel in his place.

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/with_fire_and_sword_se/chapters/viii)

Receives a sarcastic letter from Hmelnitski and laments that he taught Hmelnitski war.

### [Chapter XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/with_fire_and_sword_se/chapters/xi)

His nephew, young Barabash, is accused of treason and killed; Hmelnitski uses this to avenge himself on the old colonel.

### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/with_fire_and_sword_se/chapters/xiii)

Mentioned as one of the leaders of the Cossacks sailing down the Dnieper with the German infantry.

### [Chapter XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/with_fire_and_sword_se/chapters/xiv)

Old colonel of Cherkasi; refuses to betray the flag, resists the mutiny, and is killed by his own Cossacks.

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