Ivan Mazepa
Ivan Mazepa , c.1640-1709, Cossack hetman [leader] in the Russian Ukraine. He was made hetman (1687) on the insistence of Prince Gallitzin, adviser to the Russian regent, Sophia Alekseyevna, and he aided Gallitzin in his campaign against the Tatars (1689). Mazepa was able for some years to maintain Ukrainian autonomy while keeping good relations with Czar Peter I. Under Mazepa's direction, churches were built and libraries and educational institutions were established. He did not, however, attain his goal of uniting all Ukrainian lands (see Ukraine ) with his territory, which lay on the left bank of the Dnieper River. Eventually, Peter's harsh demands on Ukraine threatened Cossack autonomy. When the Northern War between Russia and Sweden began (1700), the hetman established secret contact with pro-Swedish elements in Poland. Peter, who trusted Mazepa, refused to believe reports of his treason. In 1708, however, Mazepa openly joined Charles XII of Sweden when the latter's army advanced into Ukraine. The hetman found himself with few enthusiastic followers in this venture; most Ukrainian Cossacks remained loyal to the czar. After the Swedish defeat at Poltava (1709), Mazepa and Charles fled to Bender, where Mazepa died. According to a legend, Mazepa, in his youth, was tied to the back of a wild horse and sent into the steppes by a jealous husband. This legend was described in Lord Byron's poem, Mazeppa.
Bibliography: See biography by C. A. Manning (1957); studies by H. F. Babinsky (1974), O. Subtelny (1981), and T. Mackiw (1983).
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The emergence of Ukraine: part one.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 3/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...rewriting and rediscovering their history which was for the most part banned in the former USSR. Today's heroes, such as Hetman Ivan Mazepa, leader of the Ukrainian Cossacks who signed an alliance with the Swedes against the Russians in the early eighteenth century...
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With Shakespeare's Eyes: Pushkin's Creative Appropriation of Shakespeare.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2005; ; 600 words
; ...the characters of Ibragim in The Moor of Peter the Great, and Mazepa in Poltava. The character of Desdemona in Othello also provided a model for Pushkin, for example in creating Mazepa's lover Maria. In her discussions of the works outlined above...
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Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre: Process to Performance.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...responses in various countries. In Chapter 6, on Dodin's staging of the operas Elektra, Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk District, and Mazepa, she shows how he brings to bear his experience of dramatic theatre and challenges traditional approaches. But in her final...
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Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/2005; ; 503 words
; ...found themselves after the Battle of Poltava when Peter I crushed the Swedes. Unfortunately for the Cossacks, their Hetman, Ivan Mazepa, had allied with the Swedes in the hope of using them to escape the suffocating embrace of Muscovy. This icon, Plokhy argues...
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Towards an Intellectual History of Ukraine: An Anthology of Ukrainian Thought from 1710 to 1995.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...minded, for example, will find here the 'Bendery Constitution', to which Pylyp Orlyk subscribed in 1710 on succeeding Hetman Mazepa (with which the volume begins); the 'Fourth Universal', which declared Ukrainian independence in January 1918; the Manifesto...
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Physical Dosimetry and Biological Indicators of Carcinogenic Risk in a Cohort of Persons Exposed to Unhealthy Ecological Factors Following the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident.
Magazine article from: Archives of Environmental Health; 11/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; THE CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT (NPP) accident, which occurred on April 26, 1986, caused profound radioactive contamination in the Polessje region of the Ukraine. The wooded areas experienced unique radionuclide spectrum compositions, with a mosaic pattern of contamination (i.e.,
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Mazepa, Ivan (c. 1639 – 1709; Ruled 1687 – 1709)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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Ivan Stepanovich Mazepa
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Ivan Stepanovich Mazepa The Ukrainian Cossack leader Ivan Stepanovich Mazepa (ca. 1644-1709) is considered a traitor by Russian...historians. Neither the place nor the date of the birth of Ivan Mazepa can be given with certainty, but there is evidence...
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Mazepa, Hetman Ivan Stepanovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
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Hetmanate (Ukraine)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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Poltava, Battle of
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...However, in September he decided to move down to the Ukraine where he expected to gain the support of the Cossack Hetman Ivan Mazepa. In the meantime, Tsar Peter I managed to defeat the Swedish forces Charles had been waiting for (the battle of Lesnaia...
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