Viktor Horobets

Viktor Mykolayovych Horobets is a Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor, and a leading research fellow at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the NAS of Ukraine. He specializes in the political history of early modern Ukraine, above all the era of the Hetmanate and Cossack–Muscovite and Cossack–Polish relations of the 17th century.

Contribution

He is the author of a number of monographs on the structure and foreign policy of the Hetmanate, in particular “The Elite of Cossack Ukraine in Search of Political Legitimation: Relations with Moscow and Warsaw, 1654–1655” (2001), a study of the status of the Zaporozhian Host immediately after the Pereyaslav Council. He is a member of the editorial board of the “Ukrainian Historical Journal.”

In Vox Veritatis materials

Horobets’s lecture “Ukraine After Pereyaslav 1654” (the “Historian Every Saturday” series) is used as a scholarly source in the article on Pereyaslav 1654: the contractual nature of the agreement, the status of political autonomy, and Moscow’s subsequent narrowing of the Hetmanate’s rights.