xxxx gay Mazepenko; 2) a regiment and hundreds of Belotserkovskys Miron Mazepa; 3) Uman regiment of hundreds of Romanovskaya Maxim Mazepa; 4) Kalnitsky regiment of hundreds of Omentovskaya is simply Mazepa; and beyond the Dnipro in the Poltava regiment and the hundred of Basil Mazepa, the Mirgorodsky hundred of Krasnopolskaya is also just Mazepa; secondly, there is a village there, Mazepintsi, of course, named after the ancestor Mazepa, as Sokolintsi, Turkovtsi, Savintsi, Popkovtsi, Ivanovtsi, Iskovtsi, etc., after Sokol, Turk, Sava, Popk, Ivan Isk. The village of Mazepintsi, Kyiv Province, near Bila Tserkva. One of the Little Russian Chronicles (Samovidtsa) directly says that Mazepa comes from the outskirts of Belotserkovskiye, where the village of Mazepintsi and according to the “Registers” of Kozak Miron Mazepa: “That same fate (1687) in the month of July, the army appointed Ivan Mazepa, a noble family, Povet, as Hetman of Asaul Troops Belotserkovsky, an old-time Ukrainian gentry and a member of the army" (p. 78)." And Mazepa's contemporary and fellow countryman, the glorious Feofan Prokopovich, a native of Kyiv, a graduate of the Kyiv Academy, its Teacher and Rector, speaks without further ado (in his History of Peter the Great, ch. IV, p. 156), that “Mazepa, who served at a young age in the Polish courts and was dishonestly expelled from there, was a native of Little Russia.” The testimony of Feofan agrees with the testimony of another contemporary of Mazepin, who should have known the Yeozatsky Hetman well: this is General Gordon, who believes that Mazepa was from the above-mentioned village of Mazepinets, therefore, from surroundings of Belotserkovskiye. The latest Little Russian notes (for example, Shafonsky and others) do not contradict these testimonies of Mazepa’s contemporaries and countrymen. His stay in the “Polish Courts” and his love affairs could give reason to later writers (Golikov, Simonovsky, Konisky and the French: Voltaire, Leclerc and Lesur) to consider him a Pole, some born in Poland, and others
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...from a Lithuanian family. It is clear, from the fact that he was a Russian nobleman, of an ancient and fairly numerous family, who lived for a long time with the Poles in Volhynia, Podillia and even in the Kingdom itself, perhaps (at the court of John Casimir), where he managed to acquire a modern education, the gloss of the secularism of that time and Jesuit manners. The abbacy of his mother (Mariia) in the Kyiv convent, as well as the marriage of his sisters, one to Obydovsky, the other to Myrovych (Yanelia, a diminutive in Polish from Yana, Ioanna, like Yanka (Anka) in Russian from Anna), and later to Voinarovsky, do not contradict our assumption. That Mazepa, "having abandoned the Tsar, wanting to reign on the throne himself," in the words of the Duma, is an understandable matter: "a family is not without a freak," but for a freak there is also a freakish memory, since "Eminet sola virtute potestas atque memoria bona;" [Power and a good memory stand out by virtue alone;] and this is because "Virtus omnibus rebus anteit" [Virtue precedes all things]. Therefore, it is very natural, if "Fama et vita pari passu ambulant," [Fame and life walk step by step,] if they reap what is sown.
I should, in conclusion, turn to the very names and titles included in the “Register,” which represent a rich subject for various historical, philological and ethnographic considerations and conclusions, but this would carry me further and further: this time, what I said about the “Registers of the Zaporozhian Army” at the first time of its appearance will be enough his famous and the entire South Russian people, Leader and Liberator “from the captivity of the Egyptian Lyatskaya”....
O. Bodyavdky.
REGIMENT CHIGIRINSKY.
His Grace Pan Hetman Khmelnitsky, Tomish Khmelnytsky, Ivan Chernyata, Obozny military, Mikhailo Luchchenko, Aoavul military, Demko, Asavul military, Ioan Ostafievich, military clerk.