Buturlin, Vasilii
Buturlin, Vasilii, ?–1656. Russian boyar. In January 1654 he headed the Muscovite delegation that negotiated the Pereiaslav Treaty of 1654 with Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky and theCossack starshyna. In 1655 he commanded the Russian forces that helped the Ukrainian army expel Polish troops from most of Ukraine.