Contents

Figures and Tables ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xiii

Maps follow page xiv

Introduction 3

Zenon E. Kohut, Volodymyr Sklokin, and Frank E. Sysyn

PART ONE

COSSACK AUTONOMIES AND THEIR DEMISE

1 Ukraine on Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-Century Maps: From the “Wild Field” to the “Country of the Cossacks” 27

Kyrylo Halushko

2 In Search of “Ukraine” in the Russian Empire (End of Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries) 57

Volodymyr Kravchenko

3 From the “Russian Jerusalem” to the “Slavic Pompeii” 97

Oleksii Tolochko

4 Catherine II, Evdokim Shcherbinin, and the Abolition of Sloboda Ukraine's Autonomy 115

Volodymyr Sklokin

5 “A Plague on Your Borders”: Disease Control and Administrative

Reforms in Late Eighteenth-Century Ukraine 144 Oksana Mykhed

6 Formation of the Imperial Russia Bureaucratic Class in Steppe Ukraine in the Late Eighteenth Century 173

Oleksandr Pankieiev

7 Identities of Little Russian Society through the Prism of Napoleon’s

Russian Campaign 202

Vadym Adadurov

PART TWO

SOCIETY, ECONOMY, AND DEMOGRAPHICS

8 Colonel of the Zaporozhian Host: The Right to Free Elections in

Light of Cossack Traditions, Prescribed Regulations, and Political

Realities 219

Viktor Horobets’

9 Military Reforms during the Hetmancy of Kyrylo Rozumovs'kyi,

1750-64 247

Oleksii Sokyrko

10 “For Deliveries to Tsargrad and Other Neighboring States” (Kyiv Reiters in the Eighteenth Century) 277

Vadym Nazarenko

11 The Cossack Starshyna of Sloboda Ukraine in the Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries: The “Family Clan” and Attainment of Social Status 298 Volodymyr Masliychuk

12 Regimental Cities of the Hetmanate in the Second Half of the

Eighteenth Century: Governance, Economy, Demography 325

Ihor Serdiuk

13 Population Distribution of the City of Poltava in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century by Age, Sex, and Marital Status 361 Iurii Voloshyn

PART THREE

CHURCH, CULTURE, AND EDUCATION

14 The Challenges of Unification and Disciplining Facing the Kyiv Orthodox Metropolitanate in the Eighteenth Century: The Case of Book Publishing 395

Maksym Iaremenko

15 The Uniate Church in Right-Bank Ukraine in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century: Paradoxes of Regional Adaptation 424 Ihor Skochylias

16 The Teaching of Philosophy at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy at the End of the Seventeenth to Eighteenth Century 455

Mykola Symchych

17 Orthodox Colleges in the Russian Empire (Second Half of the Eighteenth to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century): Between Traditions and Innovations 471

Liudmyla Posokhova

PART FOUR

POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL THOUGHT

18 “Rulers of the Fatherland”: The Hetmanate's Cossack and Church Elite's Concepts of the Nature, Representation, and Obligations of Authority (Up to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century) 499

Natalia Iakovenko

19 Fatherland in Early Eighteenth-Century Ukrainian Political Culture 528 Frank E. Sysyn

20 The Development of a Little Russian Identity and Ukrainian Nation­Building 542

Zenon E.

21 Constitutio Medievalis: The Politics of Language and the Language of Politics in the 1710 Constitution 560

Gary Marker

22 “In the Name of the Beloved Fatherland”: The Loyalty and Treason of Ivan Mazepa 579

Serhii Plokhy

23 Cossack Historiography: A Vision of the Past and the Construction of Identities in the Hetmanate in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 598

Andrii Bovgyria

Contributors 629

Index 637

Figures and Tables

Figures

12.1 Sex-age pyramid of the population of Pereiaslav 354

13.1 The main “ideal” types of age pyramids 371

13.2 Sex-age pyramid of Poltava according to the Rumiantsev Census 372

13.3 The sex-age pyramid of Poltava according to the confessional lists

for 1775 373

Tables

5.1 Expenditures of the Kyiv Chancellery on the construction of quarantine facilities, outpost, and custom complexes, 1771-72 156

10.1 Social background of the Kyiv Reiters according to the 1772 record

of service 283

10.2 Duties of Kyiv Reiters in the first half of 1778 according to a report by Unit Commander S.

12.1 Sex ratio of the population of the cities of the Hetmanate according

to the General Census of Little Russia of 1766 (percentage) 345

12.2 Percentage of widows and widowers of active age in the urban population 352

13.1 un standard for calculating Whipple's Index 364

13.2 Sex-age structure of the population of Poltava in 1765-66 according to the Rumiantsev Census 367

13.3 Sex-age structure of the population of Poltava in 1775 according

to data contained in the confessional lists 369

13.4 Population distribution of Poltava in the second half of the eighteenth century by biological and economic types 374

13.5 Population distribution of the city of Poltava by marital status in 1765-66 375

13.6 Population distribution of the city of Poltava by marital status in 1775 376

13.7 Distribution of the population of Poltava by marital status (percentage) 378

13.8 Age difference between husbands and wives 382

16.1 Philosophy classes of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy before 1751 459-61