12 documents on the history of Poltava region in the 17-18th centuries (from the fonds of the Institute of Manuscript of V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine)

Abstract

The publication presents previously unknown documents on the history of Poltava region in the 17-18th centuries found in the fonds of the Institute of Manuscript of V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine. The documents cover the past of Poltava region in hetman times, cities and villages of Hadiach, Lubny, Myrhorod and Poltava regiments, their socio-economic, political and ecclesiastic history. The documents include four conveyances of 1654-1699; a defence universal of 1707 of Lubny colonel Dmytro Zelenskyi to the Holy Protection Church in Lubny and its warden Vasyl Lekhnenko, by which they were released from local taxes and duties; a universal of hetman Danylo Apostol of 1729, by which he confirmed the handover to officer Ivan Lomykovsky of three villages located near Myrhorod on the West and South-West from it; a complaint of gunner Petro Tiuliupa to hetman Ivan Skoropadsky against Hadiach colonel Mykhailo Myloradovych; an excerpt from a list of nuns of Saint Flor and Lavr Monastery of Kyiv, native residents of Poltava region.

Keywords

• Poltava region, Hetmanshchyna, universals, conveyances, monasteries, local lore.