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Hlukhiv served as the capital of the Cossack Hetmanate in 1708-64 and until 1773 the administrative center of the Little Russia Governorate. Under the last hetmans of Ukraine, the town was remodeled in the Baroque style.
Early years. Dmitry Bortniansky was born on 28 October 1751 in the city of Glukhov, [10][11][12] Cossack Hetmanate, Russian Empire (present-day Hlukhiv, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine). His father was Stefan Skurat (or Shkurat), a Lemko-Rusyn Orthodox religious refugee from the village of Bartne in the Małopolska region of Poland.
There emerged a palace designed according to the principles of Russian Classicism. While the façade of the mansion looked fairly modest, its interiors were notable for their resplendence. The interior decoration has partly survived till today. The façade however has changed much since its erection.
Jun 2, 2016 · The battles over the fate of Kyiv gave birth to one of the most influential texts of the premodern Russian Empire, the first printed “textbook” of Rus’ history, published at the Cave Monastery under Gizel’s supervision.
5 days ago · Following the abolition of autonomy in the Hetmanate and Sloboda Ukraine and the annexation of the Right Bank and Volhynia, Ukrainian lands in the Russian Empire formally lost all traces of their national distinctiveness.
Nov 22, 2023 · After Peter’s death in 1725, the Cossacks tried unsuccessfully to reinvigorate the Hetmanate, but it became fully integrated into the newly named Russian Empire even though Cossack culture...
Nov 25, 2013 · Equally fascinating is the reconstruction of family ties and relations within the Cossack milieu of the Hetmanate, where the History was created, as well as familial connections in the imperial capital and bureaucratic structures.
