Historian Every Saturday: Viktor Horobets. Ukraine After Pereyaslav 1654 (02.11.2024)
An academic lecture by Doctor of Historical Sciences Viktor Horobets (the “Historian Every Saturday” series) on the status of the Zaporozhian Host after the Pereyaslav Council of 1654. It examines the contractual nature of the agreement (the March Articles), the divergence in how the Cossack and Muscovite sides interpreted the union, the status of political autonomy, and Moscow’s gradual narrowing of the Hetmanate’s rights up to the era of the Ruin. Expert support for the article on Pereyaslav 1654.
Key moments
- 07:26 The contemporary source of the 'one people' myth — Putin's 2021 article
- 29:45 Pereyaslav did not end Cossack statehood; incorporation was a process lasting centuries
- 34:34 The first misunderstandings over the oath of 8 January — each side understood the union in its own way
- 36:37 A 23-point draft was reduced in Moscow to an 11-point treaty (the March Articles)
- 42:54 Status of political autonomy: the tsar nominally, but its own administration and laws
- 51:15 1659: Moscow imposes a falsified, expanded version of 'Bohdan's Articles'
- 52:48 The Ruin: the disintegration of the Hetmanate into Right-Bank and Left-Bank