Yaroslav Fedoruk

A collection of documents is the second volume of the manuscript no. 189 compiled by Marcin Goliński, a councilor of Kazimierz near Cracow. This book is preserved in the Manuscript Department of the Vasyl Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library. The documents concern the social, political, economic, cultural, and everyday history of Ukraine, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and other countries of Central and Eastern Europe in 1650–1653. The main events during this time were the ratification of the Treaty of Zboriv in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1650), Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s Moldavian policy in 1650 and 1652-1653, the Ukrainian-Polish war in early 1651, Berestechko campaign and the conclusion of the Treaty of Bila Tserkva (1651), the battle at Batih (1652), its consequences, Zhvanets campaign (1653), and so forth. The collection contains valuable sources on monetary reform in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1650–1651, the uprising of Aleksander Leon Kostka-Napierski in Poland (1651), the spread of the plague in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Ukraine in 1651–1652, diplomatic relations between Ukraine, Poland, Muscovy, Sweden, Transylvania, Moldavia, Wallachia, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Crimean Khanate, Ottoman Empire, Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, and other powers. The documents are divided into charters, edicts, letters of rulers and other officials, ambassadorial instructions, reports, international treaties, diaries or letters of participants in military campaigns, news from different parts of Europe and the Ottoman Empire, Goliński's notes who was the eyewitness of the time, astrological treatises as the evidence of social mentality of the epoch, and so forth.

1. ARCHEOGRAPHY, SOURCE STUDIES
Heorhii Papakin. Electronic (Digital) Archeography: Definition and Objectification in Modern Scholar Research
Svitlana Potapenko. Sources on the History of Advocacy in Sloboda Ukraine in the Eighteenth Century
Oksana Kovalchuk. Documents on the History of Local Authorities in the Publications of the Kyiv Archeographic Commission
Volodymyr Kovalchuk. Record-Keeping/Statistical Documents of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the Post-War Nationalist Underground of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Bandera’s Branch)
Yurii Cherchenko. Dmytro Andriievsky’s Fond in the Archives of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in Kyiv
Olena Romanova. Archive of Ahatanhel Krymsky in the A.Y. Krymsky Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine


2. MONUMENTS OF HISTORIOGRAPHY
Vitalii Telvak. Myron Korduba’s Last Paper on Mykhailo Hrushevsky
Myron Korduba. Mykhailo Hrushevsky as a Researcher of a Ducal Epoch in the History of Ukraine
Comments (Vitalii Telvak)


3. STUDIES
Volodymyr Polishchuk. The Unknown Vice-Palatine Semen Hrynkovych of Kyiv and Analysis of the Act of Sale of the Village of Hlevakha to St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery (1563)
Petro Kulakovsky. The Dietine of Kyiv Palatinate and the Diet (1645)
Aleksander Almazov. On the Biography of Colonel Ostap Zolotarenko of Nizhyn
Maryna Kravets, Victor Ostapchuk, Vera Tchentsova. An Additional Letter for “Doroshenko’s Archiveˮ
Anna Navrotska. Matrimonial Cases in the Practice of Spiritual Justice during the Reign of Yosyf Shumliansky: (Based on the Books of the Spiritual Court of the Lviv Diocese, 1667-1708)
Ihor Skochylias. An Unknown Description of the Acts of the Council of Zamość of the Uniate Church (1720): “Diary” of the Basilian Protoarchimandrite Antonii (Zavadsky)
Oleksii Kuraiev. The Issue of Authorship of the German Project of the Kingdom of Kyiv (1888): A Documentary and Historical Context
Ihor Hyrych. Ukrainian Populism (Narodnytstvo): On the Issue of Assessment of this Phenomenon
Viktoria Serhiienko. “Official History” for the Stateless Nation: Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s “The Illustrated History of Ukraine”
Nadia Myronets. Mykhailo Hrushevsky and Volodymyr Vynnychenko: Evolution of Relations
Arkadii Tretiakov. Kyivan Merchantesses (1816–1917)
Tetiana Sebta. The Borrowing of Artworks and Art Objects in the Kyiv Art Museums under Nazi Occupation
Anatolii Sinilo. Restituted and Not Returned: Works of Art of Belarusian and Ukrainian Museums Moved during the Second World War which are Preserved in Contemporary Collections
Volodymyr Potulnytsky. The Place of the Ottoman Porte in the History of Europe and Ukraine in Omeljan Pritsak’s Historical and Archival Heritage
Taissa Sydorchuk. Documents of Ukrainian Historical Association (USA) in the Archival Collection of Omeljan Pritsak: A Content, Classification, and Typological Analyses


4. SOURCE PUBLICATIONS
Bohdan Smereka. Demarcation of the Villages in the Ruthenian Land (1422)
Rev. Nazar Zatorsky. The Compilation of Prince Andrei Shuiski on the Basis of the Epistle of Misael
Rev. Yurii Mytsyk. Extracts from the Documentation of the Mhar Monastery during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century (Lubny, Lokhvytsia, and Snitin)
Mykola Krykun. Documents on the First Years of the Palatinate of Podilia as a Part of the Ottoman Empire: (According to the Surviving Materials of Kremenets City Books)
Volodymyr Aleksandrovych. About the Foremen of the Lviv Bricklayer Corporation during the Construction of the Missionary Church in Horodenka: On the Organization of Construction Artels on the Right-Bank Ukraine in the Eighteenth Century
Yurii Piskun. Painter Stepan Kotliarevsky as a Forgotten Figure in the History of Ukrainian and Belarusian Art in the Last Third of the Eighteenth Century
Volodymyr Moroz. “The Home History” (Istoriia domovna) of the Basilian Monastery in Mukachevo (1862–1878): Research on the Place, Context, and Significance of the Document
Inna Starovoitenko. Excerpts from the Memoir Heritage of Levko Chykalenko: Memoires of His Childhood and Student Years
Andrii Grechylo. Military Colors of the Third Iron Rifle Division of the Army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic
Yulia Horbach. Mykola Chyrsky as a Poet and Standard Bearer of the Army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic in Exile: (The Letters to Leonid Biletsky)
Inna Tarasenko. The Correspondence of Yevhen Bachynsky with Metropolitan Hilarion (Ohiienko)
Olha Hural. Yurii Borysov’s Investigation File (1930)
Dmytro Burim, Yaroslav Fedoruk. The Shevchenko Institute – a Little-Known Project in the History of Ukrainian Science during the German Occupation (1942)


5. REVIEW ARTICLES
Leonid Tymoshenko. Rev. Nazar Zatorsky. “Poslannia Mysaila do papy Syksta IVˮ 1476 roku: Rekonstruktsiia arkhetypu. 2d ed. (Lviv: UCU Publishing House, 2019). 560 p.+24 il. (Series “Kyivan Christianityˮ, vol. 15).
Yevhen Buket. Tetiana Tairova-Yakovleva. Koliivshchyna: Velyki iliuzii (Kyiv: “Clio”, 2019). Transl. from Russian by T. Kryshtalovska. 256 с.
Victor Korotky. Danylo Yanevsky’s “Ukraineˮ Project as a Pseudo-History of “Our Stateˮ without Ukrainians, Their State, and Statehood Aspirations
Ihor Hyrych. Vitalii Ponomariov. Zdobuttia identychnosti. Krytychni esei (Kyiv: “Stylosˮ, 2013). 167 p.; Vitalii Ponomariov. Istoriia na vlasnii shkiri (Kyiv: “Stylosˮ, 2018). 155 p.
Andrii Grechylo. Lvivska natsionalna naukova biblioteka Ukrainy imeni Vasylia Stefanyka: Peremishchennia i vtraty fondiv: Zbirnyk dokumentiv i materialiv. Ed. H. Svarnyk (chief editor), R. Dziuban, M. Kryvenko, L. Kusy, V. Muravsky; consult. ed. Ya. Dashkevych, H. Svarnyk (Lviv, 2019), vol. 2: (1646 – March, 1953). xxxii+622 p. (Series of Source Studies).
Andrii Grechylo. Ukrainskyi knyzhkovyi znak XIX – XX stolit. Kataloh kolektsii Stepana Davymuky. In 3 vols. Ed. Larysa Kupchynska (Lviv: “Aprioriˮ, 2017). Vol. I: A–D. 672 p., il.; vol. ІІ: Е–О. 598 p., il.; vol. ІІІ: P–Ya. 672 p., il.
Tamara Demchenko. Ihor Hyrych. Viacheslav Lypynsky: Khliborob i zhovnir: (Spivvidnoshennia demokratychnoho i konservatyvnoho v ioho filosofii) (Kyiv: Mykhailo Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies, National Academu of Sciences of Ukraine). 312 p.


6. MISCELLANEA
Register of Goods in Lviv in Early Sixteenth Century or Which Products Lviv Citizens Traded without Taxes (Myron Kapral)
The New Document on the History of Kyivan Land Chancellery in Early Seventeenth Century: (The Inscription Graffiti on the Wall of the Church of St. Cyril) (Viacheslav Kornienko)
Return to the Uniate Church as an Escape from the “Defendersˮ of the Orthodox Population of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 60s and 70s of the Eighteenth Century (Yevhen Buket)
Curriculum Vitae of Dmytro Andriievsky (Yurii Cherchenko)
A Traditional Element of the Game Culture in Podilia and Southern Ukraine in the Records in Early Twenty First Century (Valerii Staekov)

Vsevolod Ivanovych Naulko (1933–2018) (Valerii Starkov)
Dmytro Vasyliovych Malakov (1937–2019) (Hryhorii Savchenko)
Vitalii Serhiiovych Vlasov (1969–1919) (Ihor Hyrych)
Ivan Volodymyrovych Dyvny (1966–2020) (Dmytro Semko)

The paper considers the issue of the English periodicals and methods of how they solved the problem to publish reliable news taken from the abundance of diverse information circulating in Europe in the mid-seventeenth century. The author notes that the newspapers (or newsbooks as they were named at the time) would rather publish news from eyewitnesses or those that was confirmed in several sources received by the English agents in different countries. In this connection the publication of well grounded news, e. g., on signing of the international treaties between different countries, other diplomatic documents, and so forth was of great importance in the political perspective. Sensational information, which did not, however, have reliable confirmation, was often replicated in different issues of the same newsbook according to the new documents from the agents until the editors determined its final probability. This included news on the death, wound, imprison of monarchs, rulers, famous generals, infringement or persecution of traders, complicated relations in European diplomacy, especially if their consequences were essential for England’s foreign policy, etc. Individuals who used to cultivate false information could be prosecuted as it is known on the base of some evidences in 1650s and 1660s.
The influential source of information for newsbooks, which supported Cromwell’s foreign and internal policy, was the Council of State. The most important of them was “Mercurius Politicus”, founded in 1650 and edited during the next ten years by a talented polemist and journalist of the time, Marchamont Nedham (1620–1678). Comparing some information published in “Mercurius Politicus” with the diplomatic reports from Paris and London in 1655, the article provides documentary examples of the direct connection of this newspaper with Secretary of the Council John Thurloe’s office. However, apart from news received from the Council of State, Nedham worked on the development of his own network of informants in Europe.
The author discusses in more details one of the documents published in “Mercurius Politicus” in May 1656, i. e., the letter from a correspondent in Elbląg/Elbing to his friend in Gdańsk/Danzig. Nedham titled this document with his editorial comments and printed in toto because it was mainly about refutation of abundance of false political information sent from Gdańsk to Elbląg. The content and general tone of this letter were consonant with the problems which newsbook editors aimed to overcome in their everyday routine.

Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Epoch: The War on the Ruthenian Lands

The paper examines the main strategies of Hetman Khmelnytsky during his war against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1648-1657. At the beginning of 1649, the main goal of Hetman Khmelnytsky was to the reunion of all Ukrainian lands, including Red Rus' (i.e., Galicia), Kholm, and Halych, under the administration of the Zaporozhian Host according to the tradition of the Old Rus' state. Territories of Belarus were expected to be included in his political projects.

Vasyl Dubrovsky – A Scholar of Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s Relations with the Ottoman Empire and Crimean Khanate.
In 1944 an orientalist Vasyl Dubrovsky sent his article “Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Turkey: (On the Occasion of the Publication of Prof. Jan Rypka’s Articles)” (in Ukrainian) to print in the sixth volume of the Works of the Ukrainian Historical and Philological Society in Prague. Unfortunately, this volume has never been published and the collection of the articles was lost in 1945 during the war. The draft of Dubrovsky’s study is preserved, however, in the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine, Lviv, and has been published in the current volume of the Ukrainian Archeographic Year-Book as a monument of historiography.
The editor’s article discusses Dubrovsky’s assessment of the relations of the Ukrainian hetman with the Ottoman Empire and Crimean Khanate in 1648–1657. In the 1930s and early 1940s Dubrovsky evaluated to what extent Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s diplomacy towards the Black Sea region was a priority in his general foreign policy. Dubrovsky examined ideas that Hetman Khmelnytsky accepted the Ottoman protectorate in the early 1650s and later in the course of his hetmancy was a vassal of Sultan Mehmed IV. The draft of Dubrovsky’s article and textual criticism of its editing are analyzed in this article as well.

This article analyzes the record of the known title, given to Bohdan Khmelnytsky by Englishmen. This title is found in the Polish Noble Collections of the seventeenth century/ Beginning from the publication of the document by Oleksandr Lazrevsky in 1882 there is a statement in science, that this title is the beginning of the lost letter from Oliver Cromwell to Ukrainian hetman. The author studied how this point of view developed in researches of the nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries in Ukraine, Russia, and Poland and how it influenced the historical works in English, German, and French. In conclusion, the author confirms the statement, that this title is not the beginning of the authentic letter from Cromwell or some other figures of the English Revolution to Khmelnytsky, but it is a Polish apocryphon. This apocryphon caused the myth from the seventeenth century and is quite widespread up till today about correspondence between Cromwell and Khmelnytsky.

The article examines the foreign policy of the Crimean Khanate in the mid-seventeenth century. The main purpose of the research is to analyze the embassies of the Crimean Tartars to Charles X Gustavus of Sweden, Frederick III of Denmark, and Ferdinand III of the Holy Roman Empire in 1655. The author concluded that Khan Mehmed Giray IV developed such a political activity under the influence of the Polish king, John Casimir. This collaboration followed after the signed agreement between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Crimean Khanate (October, 1654).