Lupu, Roksana

Lupu, Roksana (Rozanda, Ruxandra), b ?, d 1686. Moldavian princess; daughter of Vasile Lupu. She married Tymish Khmelnytsky in 1652. After his death in 1653, she lived in Chyhyryn; later she moved to an estate given to her by Bohdan Khmelnytsky, in the town of Rashkiv, in Podilia. In 1666 she returned to Moldavia. The details of her marriage are discussed in A. Horbach's Tymish Khmel’nyts’kyi v rumuns’kii istoriohrafiï ta literaturi (Tymish Khmelnytsky in Romanian Historiography and Literature, 1969).