![]() ![]() ![]() The religious elite of the Hetmanate became prominent in the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church already in the eighteenth century. The last traces of this autonomy (the Little Russian Collegium) disappeared in the early decades of the nineteenth century. ![]() The administrative autonomy of the Hetmanate was continuously restricted and, under Catherine the Great, formally abolished. In the course of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the Hetmanate and Sloboda Ukraine, which gradually acquired the name “Little Russia,” were incorporated ever more closely into the Russian Empire. The subsequent union between the Cossack Hetmanate and the Muscovite Tsarist Empire changed the relation of forces between Moscow and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and laid the foundation for a gradual westward expansion of the Russian Empire. The traditional ‘Little Russian’ patriotism was gradually giving way to the ideas of modern Ukrainian nationalism.Īn important milestone in East European history was the Cossack uprising of 1648 led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky. A pro- Tsentralna Rada demonstration in Sophia Square, Kiev, 1917. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |