Рукописна та книжкова спадщина України (Jan 2023)
From documents of last third of 17th - first third of 18th centuries to history of Kyiv Region
Abstract
The purpose of the article is to bring into scientific circulation unknown historical sources that are important for the history of Ukraine, especially for the history of such a region as the Kyiv Region. Methodology. The work primarily uses biographical and historical-logical methods of studying historical sources with the involvement of special methods of archeography, source studies, document studies, archival studies, and paleography. The scientific novelty of the article is that it analyzes and publishes for the first time a number of documents from the last third of the 17th - the first third of the 18th centuries on the history of the Kyiv Region from the book repositories of Ukraine and Poland. These are, in particular, documents from the collection of Mykola Markevych from the fonds of the Institute of Manuscript of the V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine, which are contained in the collection of registries of documents of the 17th-18th centuries, organized by a Ukrainian historian, and documents from the act book of the 17th-18th centuries from the city of Kozelets from the collection of the Polish historian Maryan Gozhkowski, which is kept in the Manuscripts Department of the Library of the Polish Academy of Arts and Polish Academy of Sciences. Conclusions. This publication sheds additional light on the history of an important region of Hetman-era Ukraine. The article contains previously unknown documents relating to the past of Kyiv and the Kyiv Region, the Kyiv and Pereyaslav regiments, the cities of Pereyaslav and Kozelets, their socio-economic, church history, and some noble and noble families. In particular, acts of election of prominent church and cultural figures of Ukraine of the 17th century Sylvester Kosiv and Yosif Trizna as the Metropolitan of Kyiv and Archi mandrite of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, respectively, which were signed by prominent church and political figures Ignatius Oksenovych Starushych, Innokenty Gisel, Adam Kysil, Ostafy Vyhovskyi (father of the Hetman of Ukraine) and others, have been published. These documents are complemented by the letters of Kyiv Metropolitans Gedeon Chetvertynskyi and Gavriil Kremyanetskyi. Based on the analysis of the published documents, their informational potential has been determined, and the most important information from the history of the Kyiv Region during the Hetman period has been highlighted for each of them.
