And we never did get to Skovoroda: the 18th century in the history of Ukraine (24.06.2023)
A conversation between Vitaliy Dribnytsya and the host of a philosophy podcast about the 18th century in the history of Ukraine — a century of the gradual dismantling of the Hetmanate. The article draws on the segment about the Battle of Poltava in 1709 as the beginning of the end of autonomy (the clash of Peter I and Mazepa against the backdrop of a pan-European “fashion for absolutism”), the Eternal Peace of 1686 and the partition along the Dnipro, the “autumn of the Hetmanate” under Kyrylo Rozumovskyi, and the liquidation of the Zaporozhian Sich in 1775. A source for the section of the article on the dismantling of Cossack statehood in the 18th century.
Key moments
- 02:30 Poltava 1709 as the beginning of the end of autonomy: the clash of Peter I and Mazepa against the backdrop of the late-17th – early-18th-c. "fashion for absolutism"
- 04:30 Poltava — the collapse of the vassal-seigneurial relations of the early modern period and the rise of centralized states
- 12:42 The Eternal Peace of 1686: the border along the Dnipro, the left bank and Kyiv (though on the right bank) passed to the Muscovite Tsardom
- 23:37 The "autumn of the Hetmanate" under Kyrylo Rozumovskyi; with Catherine II's accession — either surrender hetman power or face execution
- 24:36 The liquidation of the Zaporozhian Sich in 1775; the Cossacks were enrolled into dragoon regiments of the regular army
- 36:00 The Cossack starshyna equated with the Russian nobility — part of the elite was integrated into the empire