The book “Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Search of the Pereiaslav Council” is a dynamic, almost detective-like, and very sharp historical reconstruction of magnificent and terrifying events in Ukrainian and European history of the century. It is built on detailed knowledge of those eras, yet it is not a boring documentary study packed with outdated and wordy quotes from the author’s copyists.
The book contains many lively Russian-Ukrainian-Polish traditionally-specific dialogues, making the text even more accessible for today’s mass reader. The book’s authors, who know Ukrainian and Polish, reconstructed many historical events and facts completely unknown to the Russian reader.
Contents:
Foreword
Chyhyryn, Subotiv, the victorious year of Bohdan the Great
The Cossack “dude/fife” game of 1648–1654
1595–1620: “Ukraine will never be a Polish backwater”
1620–1622: “Greetings to the Black Sea—don’t from the wrong end”
1622–1638: “Erase the Cossacks to the tenth generation”
1638–1645: “Hey, brothers-musketmen, accept a gift from Paris from Chyhyryn”
1645–1647—Accuse him of something and get rid of him, Royal provocation—or how to arrange a many-year massacre in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
1648–1654: “You yourselves wanted to get your own Cannae!”—Khmelnytsky spilled from the sack and brought trouble to the Poles
15–16 May 1648. Korsun. No place for honorable шляхта on earth!
Moscow and Ukraine at Pereiaslav in January 1654
1654–1657: “Don’t barge into our blessed land—we’ll trample and turn it upside down. May our Ukraine live forever!”
The sunset is often confused with dawn