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It is one of the founders of the Black Sea Cossack Regiment. He came up with the initiative to relocate the Black Sea Cossacks to the Kuban. Children's and youth years, the future military judge was born on December 4 in Ukraine, in the village of New Sanzharas. The boy was provided with good home education. Then he studied in the Kyiv Bursa, where he shone with his unusual abilities to study languages ​​and sciences, and also during his creative abilities appeared - Anton created the texts of songs and poems, which he later performed, accompanying himself on Bandur.

In the year, Anton arrived in Zaporizhzhya Sich, where he enlisted in Kushchevsky Kuren. And after 5 years, the man was chosen by a smoked chieftain. This year became a landmark in the biography of Golovaty - it became part of the Council of the delegation of representatives of the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks who went to the city on the Neva to be represented by the empress.

The reason for this trip was the coronation of Catherine II, where the chieftain was honored to play the empress in Bandur. Anton Golovata outstanding intellectual and diplomatic abilities, the knowledge that the man could show off before his superiors became the reason that they began to entrust the proceedings of land and other judicial disputes. The man was entrusted with acting the duties of a military clerk, which in those days was equated with the rank of regimental commander.

Anton's career was faithful to the chosen path, therefore he gave a lot of effort to the construction of the fleet, actively participating in the sea campaigns of his military comrades during the Russian-Turkish war. When Anton was 42 years old, he, using many years of experience acquired with the participation of land disputes, he, as part of the delegation of the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks, led the S.

delegation, was instructed to ask the empress that the Cossacks were returned to their former Sich land and send new lands to their possession. However, in St. Petersburg the opinions of the Kozaks decided not to take seriously. After Sich was eliminated, the foremen of the Cossack detachments were offered to continue their service on the side of the Russian Cossacks. Golovaty, agreeing to the proposal, occupied various administrative posts in Yekaterinoslav’s governorship.

Potemkin, who experienced warm feelings for Kozak, organized military units from the former Cossacks. When Catherine went on a trip to the Crimea, the residence of the former Cossack chieftains performed in Kremenchug with a proposal that it was worth organizing the “army of faithful Cossacks”.

When Catherine the Great responded, the fees of those who wanted to be in this army in the foot and horse detachments began. Golovaty was appointed head of the foot, and a little later he was elected to the post of judge of the entire “newly made” troops. In the Cossack hierarchy, this is the second most important figure, inferior only to the military ataman. When Russian-Turkish battles started, the recently organized army became an effective participant in all military operations.

In the summer of the year, a detachment under the command of Golovaty, having at their disposal, Cossack "seagulls" successfully besiege Ochakovo. With their participation in the “Liman battle”, the Cossacks were able to help their people and defeat the enemy fleet. Then they decided to transform the Cossack boats, giving them the name “Black Sea Cossack Flotilla”.

Anton Andreevich was appointed commander. In winter, the Black Sea, as a rule, stood on the "apartments", which were located along the lower reaches of the Dniester River. In November of this year, the chieftain was raised to the rank of colonel. When the war was poured, the Cossack army received new Russian lands at their disposal. Since they conquered the territory along the Black Sea, the army received a new name and since then the Cossacks were listed as the Black Sea Cossack army.

But Golovaty was a Ukrainian, because he had little received the territory, and he again went to the empress to petition for new lands. He wanted to possess the territory in the Taman and "surroundings" area. As the head of the Chernomorets put it, it would be good compensation for the seich lands selected from them. According to Catherine’s decision, the Cossacks were given to their possession of the land in Taman and the Kuban and, as it listed in the contract, the Cossacks had the right to the eternal and hereditary possession of the territory they allocated.

Anton’s personal life may be familiar with the personal life of the chieftain successfully developed. He married in the year and marriage lasted more than 20 years. In this union, one daughter and six sons were born. Anton also became a foster father for three girls and three boys. In the year, Golovaty's wife died, due to the fact that she could not recover after pregnancy and childbirth, which turned out to be difficult and incompatible with life.

To honor her memory, the chieftain begins the construction of the church, which was located on the grave of his late wife. At that time, the military judge was busy with cases regarding this issue. He expected to obtain permission to build churches for all residents of the region, was engaged in the construction of military buildings and barracks, and wrote out clergymen.When the Synod wrote out permission to build the monastery and churches of the Orthodox religion, as well as the need to build military destruction buildings in the capital, as well as an educational institution for the Cossacks.

For this reason, Golovaty turned to Ukrainian teachers, pharmacists, honey for help. Ataman also planned to help the native mountain peoples adopt Christianity, because he tried to build peaceful and fair relations with the southern neighbors. Anton also stopped attempts at robberies and theft in the camp of representatives of the Cossack army. In the year, when Catherine died, Paul I informed the Cossacks that he would stop this military operation and decided to return the expedition to Russia.

However, the Winter climate of Transcaucasia negatively affected the health of the Cossacks, ailments flashed in the detachment that caused the mortality of the troops. Golovaty was chosen by the new ataman, the Cossacks entrusted him with leading and responsible for what was happening in the Black Sea Cossack army. However, Anton was not destined to find out about the decision of representatives of Cossack detachments.

Death when Anton Golovaty was returning from the Persian campaign, he had many plans for further life and development of the army, as well as the construction of new churches and assistance to the population and his subordinates, but these plans were never implemented. At the end of January, the life path of Golovaty ended on the island of Kamyshevan.