Right bankrupt Ukraine

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Right bankrupt Ukraine

Right-bank Ukraine ( Ukrainian Правобережна Україна , Polish Ukraina Prawobrzeżna , Russian Правобережная Украина ) is the historical name of the right (west) of the Dnieper lying part of the Ukraine , who after the conclusion of the armistice with the Tsardom of Russia in 1667 as opposed to the left-bank Ukraine (except a strip of territory before Kiev ) remained with Poland-Lithuania until the Second Partition of Poland in 1793 .

The political split in the Ukrainian hetmanate arose in the course of the Russo-Polish War 1654–1667 and the accompanying inner-Ukrainian conflict, which is referred to as "the time of ruin". After Hetman Jurij Khmelnyzkyj, like his predecessor Ivan Wyhowskyj, allied himself with the Poles against Russia, the regiments on the left bank refused to give him allegiance and henceforth elected their own hetman, who adhered to the Treaty of Perejaslav with Russia. This division was officially sealed in 1667 by the Russian-Polish Treaty of Andrussowo .

After the Treaty of Buczacz in 1672, the southern part of the right bank of Ukraine, Podolia , became part of the Ottoman Empire , but then fell back to Poland-Lithuania in the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699 . Polish rule was characterized by religious and social discrimination as well as economic exploitation of the Ukrainians by the wealthy landed gentry , who repeatedly rose up in revolts against the exploitation by the serfdom system , especially in 1702, 1734, 1750 and 1768. The rebels went down in history as Hajdamaks . The bloody Koliivshchyna uprising of 1768 was suppressed with the support of Russian troops after the aristocratic revolt of the Bar Confederation against the pro-Russian King Stanislaus Poniatowski had broken out in central Poland .

In 1793 right-wing Ukraine was annexed to the Russian Empire in the course of the Third Partition of Poland . Serfdom in Russia was not abolished until 1861.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Large parts of the nobility in the Ukraine were originally dynastic high nobility (descendants of Rurik) of Ukrainian-Ruthenian origin.

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