The Ruin (Ukrainian history)
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The Ruin is a historical term introduced by the Cossack chronicle writer Samiilo Velychko for the political situation in Ukrainian history during the second half of the 17th century.
Division of Ukrainian lands according to the Treaty of Andrusovo (1667)
Hetman Petro Doroshenko
Ivan Samoylovych
Mention of "Ukrainian State" (Polish: Ukrainskie Panstwo) in the text of the Treaty of Buchach
Ivan Mazepa
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Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa was a Ukrainian military, political and civic leader who served as hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate in 1687–1709. His long and stable rule was marked by economical and political
The Ruin (Ukrainian history)
…timeframe as 1657–1687, from the death of hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky in 1657, particularly the Pushkar-Barabash Mutiny, until the ascension of hetman Ivan Mazepa in 1687. The period was characterised by continuous strife, civil war, and foreign intervention by neighbours of Ukraine. A Ukrainian saying of the…
Mazepa in 1706
Maryna Mokiievska, later known as Mariia Mahdalena, Mazepa's mother
Mazepa's coat of arms, originally installed on the façade of Chernihiv Collegium
Mazeppa and the Wolves by Horace Vernet (1826) showing a naked Mazepa tied to a horse