Lecture 17: Muscovy and the Agreement of Pereiaslav

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.

0:30 Bohdan Khmelnytsky
0:55 Cossack State 1649
9:05 Ivan III of Muscovy
21:31 Mikhail Romanov
22:22 Alexei Romanov
31:00 Sloboda Ukraine
34:40 Belgorod line
39:09 Patriarch Nikon of Moscow
39:45 Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
41:25 Pereiaslav Agreement (1951), painting by M. Khmelko
42:12 Boyar Buturlin takes the oath of Moscow citizenship from Hetman Khmelnytsky
43:30 Khmelnytsky meeting Muscovy's envoys in the presence of Orthodox prelates at Pereiaslav. The 1654 decree 0f the Tsar Aleksei of Muscovy acknowledging the Cossack oath of allegiance at Pereiaslav.

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.