Ivan Mazepa (1639-1709), hetman of the Zaporozhian Host in what is now Ukraine, is a controversial figure, famous for abandoning his allegiance to Tsar Peter I and joining Charles XII's Swedish army during the Battle of Poltava. Although he is discussed in almost every survey and major book on Russian and Ukrainian history, Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire is the first English-language biography of the hetman in sixty years. A translation and revision of Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva's 2007 Russian-language book, Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire presents an updated perspective on the famous Ukrainian hetman. This account is based on many new sources, including Mazepa's archive--thought lost for centuries before it was rediscovered by the author in 2004--and post-Soviet Russian and Ukrainian historiography. Focusing on this fresh material, Tairova-Yakovleva delivers a more nuanced and balanced account of the polarizing figure who has been simultaneously demonized in Russia as a traitor and revered in Ukraine as the defender of independence. Chapters on economic reform, Mazepa's impact on the rise to power of Peter I, his cultural achievements, and the reasons he switched his allegiance from Peter to Charles integrate a larger array of issues and personalities than have previously been explored. Setting a standard for the next generation of historians, Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire reveals an original picture of the Hetmanate during a moment of critical importance for the Russian Empire and Ukraine. --$cProvided by publisher.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2020.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 947/.05092
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- e-un---
- ISBN
- 9780228001744 0228003091 9780228003083
- LCCN
- DK508.752.M3
- LCCN Item number
- T3513 2020eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xii, 406 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00241421 (OCoLC)1151769040 (CaOOCEL)452980
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- NLC
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- IVAN MAZEPA AND THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE 2
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- Dedication 6
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Note on Sources and Transliteration 12
- Map 14
- Introduction: The Ukrainian Hetmanate in Mazepa’s Time 18
- 1 Ivan Mazepa and Ivan Samoilovych 28
- 2 Ivan Mazepa, Vasilii Golitsyn, and the Naryshkins 65
- 3 Mazepa’s Domestic Policy 96
- 4 Mazepa and the Foreign Policy of Peter the Great 138
- 5 Mazepa and Right Bank Ukraine 154
- 6 The Cossack Elite of Mazepa’s Time 197
- 7 Mazepa’s Baroque 213
- 8 Mazepa and “the Birds of Peter’s Nest” 231
- 9 A Sick Old Man 261
- 10 The Reforms of 1707 287
- 11 The Tragedy of Choice 309
- Notes 342
- Index 410
