Cossack Hetmanate - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Cossack Hetmanate: Encyclopedia - Cossack Hetmanate
The Hetmanate was a semiautonomous Cossack suzerainty in Left-bank Ukraine, owing fealty to the tsar of Muscovy. It was established as a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Treaty Of Pereyaslav: Encyclopedia Ii - Treaty Of Pereyaslav - Historical Consequences
Whatever the nature of the treaty, the consequences were more clear over time. Major consequences of the treaty included the separation o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cossack: Encyclopedia - Cossack
For the ghost town in Western Australia, see Cossack, Western Australia. Cossack is the common name that has been independently shared b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bohdan Khmelnytsky: Encyclopedia - Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Bohdan Zynovii Mykhailovych Khmel'nyts'kyi (Богдан Зиновій Михайлович Хмельницький in Ukrainian, commo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zaporizhzhia: Encyclopedia - Zaporizhzhia
Zaporizhia (Ukrainian: Запоріжжя, Zaporizhzhia; Russian: Запорожье, Zaporozh'ye) is a city in south-eastern Ukraine, th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chernihiv: Encyclopedia - Chernihiv
Chernihiv or Chernigov is an ancient city in northern Ukraine, the capital of Chernihiv Oblast (province). The city population is 295,500...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ukraine: Encyclopedia - Ukraine
Ukraine (Ukrainian: Україна, Ukrayina, /ukraˈjina/) is a country in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the northeast, Belarus t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ataman: Encyclopedia - Ataman
Ataman (variants: wataman, vataman, otaman, Cyrillic: атаман (Russian), ватаман (Russian, regional), отаман (Ukrainian...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zaporozhian Host: Encyclopedia - Zaporozhian Host
The Zaporozhian Host or Zaporozhian Voisko (Ukrainian: Запорозьке Войсько, Zaporoz’ke Vois’ko, sometimes translated ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ukraine: Encyclopedia Ii - Ukraine - History
Human settlement in the territory of Ukraine has been documented into distant prehistory. The late neolithic Trypillian culture flourishe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muscovy: Encyclopedia Ii - Muscovy - Rise Of Muscovy
When the Mongols invaded the lands of Kievan Rus', Moscow was an insignificant trading outpost in the principality of Vladimir-Suzdal'. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baroque Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Baroque Architecture - In Central Europe
In Central Europe, the baroque period began somewhat later. Although the Augsburg architect Elias Holl (1573 - 1646) and some theoretists...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ivan Samoylovych: Encyclopedia Ii - Ivan Samoylovych - Rise To Power
Samoylovych's father was a priest in a village near Zhitomir. Ivan first rose to prominence during Ivan Briukhovetsky's revolt against Mu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ivan Mazepa: Encyclopedia Ii - Ivan Mazepa - Hetman
In 1687, Ivan Mazepa accused Samoylovych of conspiring to secede from Russia, secured his ouster and was elected the Hetman of the Left-b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chernihiv: Encyclopedia Ii - Chernihiv - History
Chernigov was first mentioned in chronicles in 907, but is considered to have existed at least in the ninth century, as uncovered by arch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zaporizhzhia Region: Encyclopedia Ii - Zaporizhzhia Region - History
Zaporizhzhia was the name of the territory of the Cossack state, the Zaporozhian Host, whose fortified capital was the Zaporizhian Sich. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cossack: Encyclopedia Ii - Cossack - Russian Cossacks
The native land of the Russian Cossacks is defined by a line of the Russian town-fortresses located on the border with the steppe and str...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cossack: Encyclopedia Ii - Cossack - History
Main article: History of the Cossacks Cossack - Origins. It is not clear when the Slavic people started settling in the lower reaches o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muscovy: Encyclopedia Ii - Muscovy - Rise Of Muscovy
When the Mongols invaded the lands of Kievan Rus', Moscow was an insignificant trading outpost in the principality of Vladimir-Suzdal'. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Romodanovsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Romodanovsky - Their Caesarean Majesties
The cadet line was continued by Yury's son Fyodor Yurievich Romodanovsky (Фёдор Юрьевич Ромодановский), who was ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bohdan Khmelnytsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Bohdan Khmelnytsky - Biography
Bohdan Khmelnytsky - Early life. Khmelnytsky was probably born in Chyhyryn, in Ukraine; it is unclear whether to a family of Ruthenian ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cossack: Encyclopedia Ii - Cossack - Terminology
Cossack - Ukrainian Cossacks. Hetman - a Ukrainian Cossack supreme military leader Bulava - a ceremonial mace, a symbol of Hetman's au...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cossack: Encyclopedia Ii - Cossack - History
Main article: Early History of the Cossacks It is not clear when the Slavic people started settling in the lower reaches of the Don and t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muscovy: Encyclopedia Ii - Muscovy - Romanovs
The immediate task of the new dynasty was to restore order. Fortunately for Russia, its major enemies, Poland and Sweden, were engaged in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muscovy: Encyclopedia Ii - Muscovy - Time Of Troubles
Ivan IV was succeeded by his son Fedor, who was mentally deficient. Actual power went to Fedor's brother-in-law, the boyar Boris Godunov....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muscovy: Encyclopedia Ii - Muscovy - Ivan Iv
The development of the tsar's autocratic powers reached a peak during the reign of Ivan IV, and he became known as the Terrible (his Russ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muscovy: Encyclopedia Ii - Muscovy - Evolution Of The Russian Aristocracy
Boyars were hereditary nobles of three categories: 1) Rurikid princes of Upper Oka towns, Suzdal, Rostov, Yaroslavl, etc. that lived in M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muscovy: Encyclopedia Ii - Muscovy - Expansion
Russia continued its territorial growth through the 17th century. In the south-west, it acquired eastern Ukraine, which had been under Po...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muscovy: Encyclopedia Ii - Muscovy - Evolution Of The Russian Autocracy
Internal consolidation accompanied outward expansion of the state. By the 15th century, the rulers of Muscovy considered the entire Russi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muscovy: Encyclopedia Ii - Muscovy - Early Imperial Russia
Main article: Imperial Russia. The following article in the series describes how in the 18th century, Russia was transformed from a stati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cossack: Encyclopedia Ii - Cossack - Russian Cossacks
The native land of the Russian Cossacks is defined by a line of the Russian town-fortresses located on the border with the steppe and str...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baroque Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Baroque Architecture - In Northern America: Mexico And California
Plateresque and Churrigueresque Baroque in Mexico: The baroque in Mexico derives from Plateresque and Churrigueresque architecture. Late ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Romodanovsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Romodanovsky - Early History
Among Vasily's sons, one was Ivan III's okolnichi, another sat in the Boyar Duma during Vasily III's reign. Their nephew was sent by Ivan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cossack: Encyclopedia Ii - Cossack - Cossack Organization
In early times, Cossack tribes were commanded by an ataman (later called hetman). He was elected by the tribe members at a Cossack rada, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cossack: Encyclopedia Ii - Cossack - Popular Image Of Cossacks
Cossacks have long appealed to romantics as idealizing freedom and resistance to external authority, and their military exploits against ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Romodanovsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Romodanovsky - Service To Tsar Alexis
The most important member of the senior branch was Prince Grigory Grigorievich Romodanovsky (Григорий Григорьевич Ро...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cossack: Encyclopedia Ii - Cossack - Terminology
Cossack - Ukrainian Cossacks. Hetman - a Ukrainian Cossack supreme military leader Bulava - a ceremonial mace, a symbol of Hetman's au...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muscovy: Encyclopedia Ii - Muscovy - Western European Knowledge Of Muscovy
Muscovy remained a fairly unknown society in western Europe until Baron Sigismund von Herberstein published his Rerum Moscoviticarum Comm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ukraine: Encyclopedia Ii - Ukraine - Subdivisions
Ukraine is subdivided into twenty-four oblasts (provinces) and one autonomous republic, Crimea. Additionally, two cities, Kiev and Sevast...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muscovy: Encyclopedia Ii - Muscovy - Evolution Of The Russian Aristocracy
Boyars were hereditary nobles of three categories: 1) Rurikid princes of Upper Oka towns, Suzdal, Rostov, Yaroslavl, etc. that lived in M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muscovy: Encyclopedia Ii - Muscovy - The Time Of Ivan Iv
The development of the tsar's autocratic powers reached a peak during the reign of Ivan IV, and he became known as the Terrible (his Russ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muscovy: Encyclopedia Ii - Muscovy - Time Of Troubles
Ivan IV was succeeded by his son Fedor, who was mentally deficient. Actual power went to Fedor's brother-in-law, the boyar Boris Godunov....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muscovy: Encyclopedia Ii - Muscovy - Romanovs
The immediate task of the new dynasty was to restore order. Fortunately for Russia, its major enemies, Poland and Sweden, were engaged in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muscovy: Encyclopedia Ii - Muscovy - Evolution Of The Russian Autocracy
Internal consolidation accompanied outward expansion of the state. By the 15th century, the rulers of Muscovy considered the entire Russi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cossack: Encyclopedia Ii - Cossack - Popular Image Of Cossacks
Cossacks have long appealed to romantics as idealizing freedom and resistance to external authority, and their military exploits against ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bohdan Khmelnytsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Bohdan Khmelnytsky - Khmelnytsky In Fiction
Sholem Asch wrote about Kmelnytsky's cossack war in his book Al Kiddush Hashem: A Novel of 1648 which describes the massacres of the Jews...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chernihiv: Encyclopedia Ii - Chernihiv - Downtown
Chernihiv's architectural monuments chronicle two most flourishing periods in the city's history - those of Kievan Rus (11th and 12th cen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cossack: Encyclopedia Ii - Cossack - Cossack Organization
In early times, Cossack tribes were commanded by an ataman (later called hetman). He was elected by the tribe members at a Cossack rada, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muscovy: Encyclopedia Ii - Muscovy - Expansion
Russia continued its territorial growth through the 17th century. In the south-west, it acquired eastern Ukraine, which had been under Po...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muscovy: Encyclopedia Ii - Muscovy - Western European Knowledge Of Muscovy
Muscovy remained a fairly unknown society in western Europe until Baron Sigismund von Herberstein published his Rerum Moscoviticarum Comm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ukraine: Encyclopedia Ii - Ukraine - Demographics
Ethnic Ukrainians make up 77.8% of the population. The minorities include significant groups of ethnic Russians (17.3%), Belarusians (0.6...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baroque Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Baroque Architecture - Precursors And Features Of Baroque Architecture
Michelangelo's late Roman buildings, particularly St. Peter's Basilica, may be considered precursors of baroque architecture, as the desi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baroque Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Baroque Architecture - In Italy And France
The sacred architecture of the baroque was mainly influenced by Italy, especially Rome and the paradigm of the basilica with crossed dome...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baroque Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Baroque Architecture - In Polish-lithuanian Commonwealth
The first baroque church in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was the Corpus Christi Church in Niasvizh, Belarus (1587). It also holds a dis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ukraine: Encyclopedia Ii - Ukraine - Economy
Formerly an important agricultural and industrial region of the Soviet Union, Ukraine now depends on Russia for most energy supplies, esp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ukraine: Encyclopedia Ii - Ukraine - Geography
The Ukrainian landscape consists mostly of fertile plains, or steppes, and plateaus, crossed by rivers such as the Dnieper, Seversky Done...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muscovy: Encyclopedia Ii - Muscovy - Early Imperial Russia
Main article: Imperial Russia. The following article in the series describes how in the 18th century, Russia was transformed from a stati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ukraine: Encyclopedia Ii - Ukraine - Name
The etymology of the Ukrainian name Ukrayina stems from the Old Slavic root *kraj-, meaning "cut". Opinions vary as to the immediate deri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ukraine: Encyclopedia Ii - Ukraine - Government And Politics
Ukraine is a democracy under a semi-presidential system with separate legislative, executive, and judicial branches. The President of Ukr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baroque Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Baroque Architecture - In England And Russia
In England the culmination of Baroque architecture comes with Sir Christopher Wren, Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor. Many exampl...   » Read the article