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Article: Preaching politics: anti-Muslim and pro-Muscovite rhetoric in the sermons of the Ukrainian Orthodox clergy (1660s-1670s).(Essay)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2009
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IN THE SEVENTEENTH century, Ukrainian-Cossack communities struggled to maintain a fragile autonomy in the face of Polish, Muscovite, and Ottoman attempts to encroach upon their Eastern European homelands. The 1654 Treaty of Periaslavl' between Hetman Bohdan Khmel'nyts'kyi (1595-1657) and Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich (1629-76) heralded the inevitable surrender of some of the Cossack freedoms in exchange for greater protection by one of these three rulers. When the Polish-Muscovite Treaty of Andrusovo transferred the lordship over Eastern Ukraine from the king to the tsar in 1667, the Muscovite tsar solidified his claim to be the sole patron of all Ukrainian Cossacks, who were ...