Lecture 19: Ivan Mazepa and the northern wars
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.
0:21 Ukrainian lands after 1667
3:40 Charles XII, Peter I, Ivan Mazepa
5:09 Vasily Klyuchevsky
6:12 Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837), portrait by Vasily Tropinin
10:59 Pyotr Tchaikovsky
12:57 Kyivan Mohyla Academy
36:11 Stanisław Leszczyński
41:09 Baturyn Fortress, Ukraine
41:33 Executions of Cossacks by Russian troops in Baturyn or Lebedyn, 1708–1709
42:14 Ivan Skoropadsky
42:29 Pyotr Tchaikovsky
44:28 Battle of Poltava images
45:01 Pylyp Orlyk
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.
