REGISTERS
TOTAL
AFTER
OF THE ZBORIV AGREEMENT
WITH THE KING OF POLISH
YANON KAZIMIRON
COMPLETED
OF THE YEAR 1649, OCTOBER 16th day
PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL
BY O. M. BODIANSKYI.
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PREFACE.
Returning from my five-year journey through the foreign Slavic lands in the summer of 1842, I stopped for a month in Warsaw, both to get acquainted with Polish writers and to examine the Archives there. Working mainly in the Main City Archive, I received an invitation to visit a Russian General, a lover of Russian and Slavic history and antiquity. It was at that time the Privy Councilor and Senator of the Warsaw Departments, Andrei Yakovlevich Storozhenko, as it turned out, my immediate fellow countryman by origin and ownership, the Little Russian of the Poltava Governor, a close neighbor and already known to me by name as a writer about various kinds of Little Russian sights and the like. I was received extremely cordially in his house and immediately received the invitation to visit him, without any hesitation, whenever I wanted. On one of these visits, while talking about our homeland, I learned from him that he now has at his disposal the original “Register of the Zaporozhye Army,” compiled under his Hetman, Vogdan Khmelnitsky, after the famous victory he won at Zborov (in present-day Galicia), in August 1649, by virtue of an agreement with the Polish King John Casimir, according to which the Hetman was supposed to have 40 thousand Cossacks included in the register, not to mention the hunting ones, and other rights and benefits recognized by the King of the South Russian people. To confirm his words, Andrei Yakovlevich immediately showed me the Register itself. This is a thick leaf, the root of which is in the palm of your hand,
PREFACE.
bound in reddish leather with leather clasps at the top and bottom, on ordinary paper of that time, a total of 190 folios, including blank ones: at the beginning 4 folios, at the end 2 folios, and after various regiments several blank half-folios and even folios (after the Cherkasy regiment 4, of which 1 is not crossed out; Kaniv 6½, of which the first two are crossed out; Bila Tserkva 8 columns, two crossed out; Uman 6 columns; Bratslav an incomplete column; Kalnyk ½ column, Kyiv a half-folio; Pereiaslav almost 3 columns; the same after Kropyvna; Myrhorod almost two columns; Poltava almost a folio; Pryluky two columns; Nizhyn ½ column, and Chernihiv, as already mentioned, two folios. The numbering of the folios at the top is double: on the left in the corner Church Slavonic, and on the right, at the end, Arabic. In this numbering everything goes correctly up to 209 inclusive (the beginning of the Kyiv regiment), but from the next half-folio suddenly 300, and so on until the very end 449; therefore, 91 half-folios are skipped, and 77 is skipped and 154 is marked twice, and therefore there will be a total of 259 and a half half-folio pages or 129 folios, on which these Cossack Registers were placed. Each half-folio is divided into two columns. The handwriting is beautiful, small, but clear, which can be seen on the 2nd lithographed facsimile of the last half-folio and on the 449th page with the verso. The ink for the most part is light reddish, the handwriting rarely becomes somewhat larger, but in some places pale ink is also encountered, especially on the first 8 half-folios, similar to the ink of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi's signature on the verso of the 449th, in Polish (along the entire page) and in Ruthenian (at the top of the 8th column), while the ink of everything else is similar in all respects to the ink of Vyhovskyi's Polish signature, at the bottom under the Hetman's Polish signature (see the facsimile itself). Both the handwriting of the signature of the General Scribe of the Zaporozhian Host, Ivan Vyhovskyi, and the ink indicate that all the "Registers" were written by the latter's hand, which is also confirmed by...
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