The Cossack elite in relations between Russia and the Left-Bank Ukraine during the ruling of the hetman em’ian Mongogreshnyĭ (1669–1672)

Abstract

The paper deals with the problem of participation of the Cossack elite in relationships between the Russian government and Dem’ian Mnogoreshnyĭ, the hetman of the Left-Bank Ukraine in the end of the 1660s and the beginning of the 1670s. The author has studied documents, concerning visits of hetman’s envoys to Moscow and trips of Russian couriers to Baturin, as well as other sources, such as reports of Russian voivodes in Ukrainian cities. All those materials show, that people from inner circle of Dem’ian Mnogogreshnyĭ mainly visited the Russian capital, and they didn’t have any privet negotiations, reporting only the information about the situation in and out of the Left-Bank Ukraine in such way, as they were instructed by the hetman. The negotiations between clerks of Little Russia office, who came Baturin were carried out in the same way, when chief clerk Karp Mokrievich met with them to speak officially about hetman’s policy. Even as the conflict between the hetman and Cossack elite of the Left-Bank Ukraine erupted, the latter didn’t ask any support in Moscow and eventually toppled and arrested Mnogogreshnyĭ without tsar’s order, not giving any information to the Russian government about the conspiracy.

Received: 17.07.2021.

Citation
Florya B. N. The Cossack elite in relations between Russia and the Left- Bank Ukraine during the ruling of the hetman Dem’ian Mongogreshnyĭ (1669–1672) // Slavic Almanac. 2021. No 1–2. P. 12–27 (in Russian). DOI: 10.31168/2073-5731.2021.3-4.1.01