From Kyivan Rus' to Peter I (13.06.2024)
A street dialogue on the continuity from Kyivan Rus’ to the era of Peter I, which turns into an analysis of the myth of Mazepa’s “betrayal”: the contractual nature of the Hetmanate’s relations with Moscow (the Kolomak Articles of 1687) and the reassessment of the “betrayal” in the works of historian Tetiana Tairova-Yakovleva.
Key moments
- 01:38 Definition: Rus' — a state of the 9th–13th centuries whose own name is unknown to us, centered on Kyiv
- 12:20 The theme of 'betrayal': and when, in what year, did Peter I betray Mazepa?
- 12:46 Reference to the Russian historian Tairova-Yakovleva and her work on Mazepa
- 13:15 Peter I was the first to break faith — he had promised to abide by the Kolomak Articles
- 13:26 The Kolomak Articles (1687), signed during the regency of Sophia; the autonomy of the Hetmanate
- 14:46 Mazepa did not betray his country: the state was the Zaporozhian Host (the Hetmanate), which acted under the Kolomak Articles