Exhibition “Chronicles of the Cossack era”

9 October 2020 year in the Chernihiv Historical Museum VV. Tarnowski for the Day of the Ukrainian Cossacks and the Day of the Defender of Ukraine opened the exhibition "Chronicles of the Cossack era - an invaluable source of history".

As the senior researcher of the museum told, Candidate of Historical Sciences Igor Sityy presents "Chronicle of the Seer" in the list of the second half of the XVIII century. Probable author Roman Rakushka-Romanovsky. He came from the Nizhyn Cossacks, held the governments of the Nizhyn centurion, general treasure, Archpriest of Bratslav, the priest of the Nikolaev church of Starodub, where he wrote his work. The chronicle describes the events of 1648 to 1702 years. Written in the then Ukrainian literary language. He influenced the works of Hryhoriy Hrabyanka, Samuel Wieliczka, Якова Лизогуба, Vasily Ruban, Олександра Рігельмана. It was first published by Osip Bodyansky on the list of Panteleimon Kulish. There are seven lists, one of which is presented at the exhibition. This list comes from the collection of Vasyl Vasyliovych Tarnovsky Jr..

This is how the chronicler covers the reasons for the uprising of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky “Vera Russian had a great baggage from the Uniates and Ksenzev, more south not tilko union in Lithuania, Volyn, ale and in the Ukraine, brothers lost their mount: in Chernigov archimandrite one-one about another zostav al, Orthodox churches have been sealed in other cities, to what assistants to those gentry, the district and the xiondzas were ... ".

Here is how he describes the uprising of Hetman Ivan Bryukhovetsky against the Muscovites: «year 1668 At the beginning of the deification, all the colonels went to Gadecho and Hetman Bryukhovetsky consulted with the colonels., judges and scattered with foremen and pledged to themselves the same south of course to retreat his royal majesty and according to the Horde of the. And the governor and Moscow from the cities send the Albo with them bitis ... ". This is how the events of this performance affected Nizhyn and Chernihiv «the Zaporozhye Cossacks with the bourgeoisie beat the Usikh. Nizhyn Zas and Chernigov, and the places were rejected and scorched, and the castles caught the whole summer in taxation from the Cossacks and this postolstvo ... ".

"Chronicle of Grabianka" was created in 1710 Hryhoriy Hrabyanka, a Cossack of the Hadiach Regiment, which 1729 year led this regiment. He supported the speech of Pavel Polubotko, for which he was imprisoned. Do 1725 returned to Ukraine. The sources of the work were: annals, chronicles, diaries, works by Kokhovsky, Twardowski, official acts. He defended the postulate "History is a teacher of life". The original has not survived. More than forty lists are known. The exhibition presents a list of the second half of the XVIII century., which got to the Chernihiv Historical Museum. VV Tarnovsky from the collection of the Chernihiv Provincial Scientific Archival Commission, which was presented to him by Count Grigory Miloradovich.

The exhibition features a mortgage board of the Church of the Intercession in the town of Synyavka (нині, the village of Synyavka, Minsk district). It is dated 1706 year and on one side is decorated with oil painting of the plot of the Intercession of the Virgin, which is non-standard, because usually one side of the board was empty, and another contained a text about the foundation of the temple. There are assumptions, that among the characters of the plot depicts the Archbishop of Chernihiv Ioan Maksymovych.

Famous historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences Serhiy Lepyavko told about a unique Ukrainian historical work of the end of the XVIII century. - "History of the Rus". This work, according to the historian, created a holistic for the first time, consistent vision of Ukrainian national history. The significance of the work for Ukrainians and Ukrainian historical science is difficult to overestimate.

The exhibition will run for two weeks.

Сsenior researcher at the museum,

кандидат історичних наук Ігор Ситий