With a Ukrainian from Nizhny Novgorod about the history of Ukraine (19.06.2023)
A street dialogue by the channel’s author with a Ukrainian from Nizhny Novgorod (his parents are from Skole and Zolochiv in the Lviv region). After testing the interlocutor’s Ukrainian, the conversation turns into an extended historical monologue: how Muscovy appropriated the name “Rus’” and became “Russia”, and why Ukraine and Russia were never historically one state (from the Treaty of Zboriv in 1649 to the Eternal Peace of 1686).
Key moments
- 00:30 Testing his Ukrainian: "kvartyrka", "firtochka", "khvirtka"
- 04:39 Book recommendation: Serhii Plokhy, "The Gates of Europe"
- 07:22 Why Moscow considered Kyiv its own: a consequence of the Mongol invasion
- 07:34 After the invasion the metropolitan of Kyiv flees to the Vladimir-Suzdal principality
- 08:08 The Greek equivalent of the word "Rus'" is "Rosiya" (Russia)
- 09:05 Ivan III is the first to bear "prince of Rus'" in his title; the legend of the Rurikid inheritance
- 10:19 Evolution of the title: Ivan the Terrible → Alexei Mikhailovich → Peter I (1721)
- 11:07 Ukraine and Russia were never united; the Zaporozhian Host as an autonomous state
- 11:36 The Treaty of Zboriv 1649; 1654 — a protectorate of the Muscovite Tsardom
- 11:53 The search for allies: Crimea, Moldova (the marriage of Tymish to Roxanda Lupu)
- 14:00 Sweden and Transylvania; the defeat of 1657; the death of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi
- 14:57 The Eternal Peace of 1686: the partition of Ukraine along the Dnipro, Kyiv to Moscow
- 15:22 The Lemkos and Operation Vistula 1947