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Allowed by censorship. Moscow, September 17, 1901
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This essay, without claiming the novelty of the sacred things reported in it, aims to give, in a simple and accessible presentation, a complete acquaintance with the history and life of the “Zaporozhye Sich.”
When compiling the essay, the main sources were the works, articles, monographs and descriptions of: D. Evarnitsky, N. Kostomarov, M. Maksimov, Boplan, Markevich, Mordovtsev, Shebalsky, Gogol, Shevchenko and others.
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CONTENTS:
Origin of the Cossacks. Zaporozhye
> The SBCs lived in the Morome campaign.
. Usha. Oppressed by the people. Rise up.......... Liberate Ukraine. Bogdan Khmelnytsyu.
. Padesh of the Zaporizhzhya Community. Trans-Danubian Cossacks.
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- “Get to work, kiddos, before the reservation!”
- “For Viru and Sich-mati!”
Almost 300 years ago, in the second half of the 18th century, the border of the Muscovite kingdom began in the west near Pskov, went to Smolensk, Orel, and then turned to the east, reaching approximately the city of Khvalynsk, which is on the Volga River.
To the west of Smolensk lay the Kingdom of Poland, and to the south were the beautiful lands of Ukraine (Little Russia); Crimea, the Caucasus and the entire Black Sea coast were under the rule of the primordial pragours: 'Turks and Tatars.
The vast steppes, lying to the south of Ukraine, extended all the way to the Black Sea; they were deserted and wild; only various animals and birds were found in them: the fear of the raids of the Tatars, who ravaged the villages and carried away their inhabitants, did not allow them to settle there and cultivate the rich land. Only on the islands of the Dnieper, below its rapids, was life in full swing: that was the famous “Zaporozhye Sich”
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Where did they come from (these were the ones who populated the deserted islands of the Dnieper and laid the foundation for “Sjchi”, the future thunderstorm of the Crimeans (Tatars) and Lyakhs (Poles)?
The first to settle there were people from Maloroseya, its true sons, flesh of its flesh, bone of its bone, and after them came the buffaloes from the Polish Ukraine.
In order to fully explain the reasons for the emergence of the Zaporozhye SFC, we must start from afar.
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Origin of the Cossacks. Zaporozhye.
“And then I’ll make friends
My dear friend is the one with the Great Meadow.
On Khotrici at my mother's
I will live well
U oksamity godyti Medy-vina go!“
(Shevchenko).
Since the time of Prince Vladim the Great, Russia has ruled the lands on the 06th side of the Dneir, having No. Mev as its capital (main) city; but the invasion of the Tatars, who overran Rosso in the 13th century and established themselves in the steppes of southern Rosaia, depopulated the once rich lands of Ukraine; No. Mev was ruined; Metropolitan Russian moved from it to Vladimr on the river. Klyazm, most of the Russian princes with their squads fled there or to the west. For too many years the Russian people endured the Tatar yoke and became so powerless that in 1320 the Lithuanians easily captured the entire Ukraine.
The Lithuanians were a poor and small people, living in the current Kovno and Grodno provinces, in at that time covered with dense forests and swamps; It was the forest and the swamps that saved the Lithuanians from the Tatars and gave them the opportunity to die.
The Lithuanians were at first pagans, but then gradually converted to Orthodoxy and adopted the language and customs of the Russians; The princes of Lithuania married Russian princesses, and therefore the Russian people got used to looking at them and their children as their own, and you, in turn, did not consider themselves strangers to the people. The Russians paid small tribute to the Lithuanians, they were judged and governed according to their customs; when the Tatars attacked, the Lithuanians and Russians fought off them together. In general, it was better for Russians to live under Lithuanian rule than under the yoke of the Tatars; but this did not last long: in 1386, the Grand Duke of Lithuania Jagiello married the Polish queen Jadwiga and accepted the Catholic faith; The Principality of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland united under one sovereignty.