'Very Positively About History': a dialogue with an old acquaintance (09.12.2021)
A dialogue between Vitaliy Dribnytsia and an “old acquaintance” about the figure of Ivan Mazepa: his testament to be buried in Jerusalem and his lost grave in Galați, the vassal-seigneurial framing of “treason,” the role of the Cossack elder and the koshovyi Kost Hordienko, the phenomenon of the “Mazepa Baroque,” and the canonical baselessness of the anathema imposed by Peter’s Synod.
Key moments
- 22:11 Mazepa's testament to be buried in Jerusalem; death and symbolic burial
- 23:40 "Treason" as a change of lord in vassal-seigneurial relations
- 26:04 The state was run only by the szlachta; Kost Hordienko backed Mazepa despite their feud
- 26:35 "Mazepa Baroque": narrow churches as a visualization of sole rule
- 28:34 The canonical nullity of the anathema; abolition of the patriarchate and the Synod
- 32:20 Mazepa's lost grave; the Ukrainian-Moldovan expedition in Galați