111) Arch, Mlrb. Col, ‘Le 1185, 0 = century of debts. - In 1738, another powerful, Avdrey Voitsekhovich, asked for the prevention of peasant transitions, for the sake of serving national duties; but the real meaning of the request is clear., In the Chernihiv regiment, in the sotnf of the city, writes Prince Voipekhovich. Baryatipsky, on the land purchased by the Dfdom Mopm Aeanathem Bogdan Voitsekhovich, at the farm nicknamed Pfvnevsky, according to the universal order of Hetman Skoropadsky, settling with a few people, serving the service befitting her imperial majesty and serving the nation's duty until now; And this year, 1738, when by decree it was commanded to enter the service of Her Majesty from every courtyard, to select and expel one person at a time, taking their movement, they went out from their huts and ran around the outlying villages, detracting from the service of Her Majesty and the national position. And that they testified in the audit of my possession and the status of their decree, for that, after they had left their home, to demand tbh debentures and all sorts of duties for them, from my other people, from the village of Dubrovnoye; Why, if for their released auxiliaries of the PBvnevskys, to collect duties in the village of Dubrovnoye, from my people, then they will go to the indecent end of ruin... For this reason, for the sake of your high-princely lordship, I slavishly ask your gracious command to institute a review and determination, so that they, my p%vsevsk subsofdki, from the service of Her Majesty and national duties, they no longer dared to repair, and others feared the impeys and abandoned them, because they would never be punished for such actions, then they took up gross savagery, not having their own home, offending our people and others to repair dare" +1?), I 112) Arch, Mlre Col, "Me 19°, thiie FATHER E VER cherry TO Otto - T - IE S On the other hand, Great Russian officials, having gained prominence in Little Russia, declared even greater claims on the peasant personality, acting in this case under the influence of a close acquaintance to them, according to the Great Russians, the law of fasting. Thus, in the decree of 1749 we read: “Her imperial majesty was outraged that the Great Russians of various ranks are stealing the Little Russians in various forms in complete servility, taking all kinds of letters from them, and involuntarily marrying them. screw your wives and girls, and screw them into eternal slavery in the Northern Military District.
In a word, the disorder of peasant life in the 18th century. has reached the highest degree of its development. Given the general disorganization of civil order in Little Russia at that time, the peasantry had nowhere to wait for improvement.
On the contrary, the outdated hetmavshchina, collapsing in its foundations, entailed. to the deterioration of all aspects of the people’s life, as soon as they were under the direct control of the hetman’s administration.