The collection highlights I. Mazepa’s domestic and foreign policy, the 1700 – 1721 Great Northern War; it also includes studies related to Ukrainian cultural heritage (XVII – early XVIII); Mazepa’s and Palii’s folklore interpretations; documents with regard to I. Mazepa’s and P. Orlyk’s activities, as well as a Swedish officer’s diary on the 1709 events near Poltava. The publication is intended for researchers, postgraduates, anyone interested in Ukrainian history.

Table of contents:
². HISTORY
Chukhlib Taras. Ukrainian Hetmanate in the Great Northern War (1700 – 1721): Issues Respecting International, Military and Political Situation …7
Rakutis Valdas Hetmani litewscy w polityñå rosyjskiej podczas wojny polnocnej 1700-1721...43
Kresin O. Political and Legal Relations between I. Mazepa’s and P. Orlyk’s Governments and Crimean Khanate …48
Tairova-Yakovleva T. On I. Mazepa’s Domestic Policy …72
Sokyrko O. Once Again on Preconditions and Causes of I. Mazepa’s Rebellion (1708) …81
Korniienko Î. Sums’kyi Regiment and Sivers’ko-Slobozhans’kyi March Led by Charles XII …93
Bovhyria A. “Mazepa Is Dead, but Mazepa’s Followers Are Alive”: Hetmanate after Poltava Defeat …120
Strukevych O. Ivan Mazepa against Socio-Cultural Background of Those Times …131

II. HISTORIOGRAPHY, SOURCE STUDIES AND SPECIAL HISTORICAL SUBJECTS

Yas’ O. History as Myth. “Hetman-Apostate” in M. Kostomarov’s Review …145
Pavlenko S. I. Mazepa’s Agreements with S. Leshchyns’kyi and Charles XII: On Historical Falsifications …170
Stanislavs’kyi V. Zaporozhian Host in Military Confrontation and Peaceful Negotiations with Crimean Khanate in the Light of I. Mazepa’s New Documents (1691 – 1694) …185
Sytyi I. Starshyna Seals of Mazepa Times …209
Demydenko O. Immovable Historical and Cultural Monuments of Mazepa Times in Kyiv …242
Sytyi Yu. I. Mazepa’s Hetman Palaces and Their Interior in Baturin …257
Travkina O. Masterpiece of Plastic Arts of Mazepa Times (History of Royal Doors of Borysohlebs’kyi Cathedral in Chernihiv) …269
Ivannikova L. Folklore Interpretation with Regard to I. Mazepa and S. Palii …276
Kovalevs’ka O. Research on I. Mazepa’s Iconography (Based on Correspondence of T. Tsiavlovs’ka and S. Bilokon’) …289
Aleksandrovych V. “Epiphanies” as a New Kyiv Graphical Panegyric to Hetman I. Mazepa …301
Deluga Waldemar. Ukrainskie graficzne wyobrazenia cudownych ikon maryjnych z XVII ³ XVIII wieku...312
Mal’chenko O. Cannon Decorative Appearance of Mazepa Times ...336


²²². DOCUMENTARY PUBLICATIONS

Mytsyk Yu. New Documents and Materials Respecting I. Mazepa and P. Orlyk Times …367
Bezverkhnii O. Diary of Robert Petre, Swedish Fenrik, as Information Source of Great Northern War in Ukraine …378

BRIEF NOTES ON AUTHORS...397