Lecture 15: Rise of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

Professor Paul Robert Magocsi — Ukraine: A History Course.

The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter is pleased to present a lecture series by Paul Robert Magocsi titled Ukraine: A History Course. Magocsi recorded 45 lectures in 2023 at the University of Toronto, where he holds the professorial Chair of Ukrainian Studies and is a history and political science professor. He is also a Board Member of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter.

Magocsi, one of the world’s leading experts on Ukraine, explores this fascinating country in all its complexity, from its history, culture, geography, politics, and multi-ethnic composition. The lectures are an important counterweight to Russian propaganda and explain Ukraine’s importance to global security today.

Time stamps are available for each lecture. Auto-translate is available in Ukrainian, major European, Asian, African, and Middle Eastern languages, including Hebrew and Yiddish.

Recordings of the lecture series were made possible with the support of the Temerty Foundation.

All the lectures are available on YouTube here.

4:18 Crimean and Nogay Tatars
4:48 Crimean Khanate and southern Ukraine
13:45 Zaporizhia, Khortytsya
15:37 Zaporozhian Sich 17th century
18:03 Zaporozhian Cossack, Town Cossack
19:23 Zaporozhian Cossack military camp during a land campaign
20:55 Krzysztof Kosiński, Severyn Nalyvaiko, Pavlo Pavliuk, Marko Zhmaylo, Dmytro Hunia, Yakiv Ostryanyn
23:50 Registered Cossacks
26:20 Janusz Radziwiłł
28:40 Hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny
31:12 The Battle of Maksym Kryvonos and Jeremiah Wisnowiecki
32:28 Yakiv Ostryanyn
37:40 Meletii Smotrytsky
41:50 Petro Mohyla

For further information, you may wish to consult: A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples (University of Toronto Press, 2010)

Robert Paul Magocsi
Chair of Ukrainian Studies University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada, September 2023.