1. Early history2. Kyivan Rus’3. Galicia-Volhynia4. Period of Lithuanian and Polish rule 5. The Cossacks.6. National liberation movement under the

leadership of Bohdan Khmelnytskiy. Narrowing of the autonomy and liquidation of Zaporizhian Sich.

7. Ukraine under the direct imperial Russian rule. 8. Western Ukraine under the Habsburg monarchy.

Cimmerians

Sarmatian clothes

Sarmatian clothes

Ruins of Chersonese

The Polianians were the largest and most developed

their prince Kyi founded the city of Kyiv in the 6th century

the first Varangian rulers of Rus’ were Askol and Dyr

In 882 they were killed by Prince Oleh Oleh laid the foundation for the powerful state of

Kievan Rus Oleg was supreme ruler of the Rus from 882 to

912

Oleh’s son Prince Ihor followed him after Igor's death, his wife Olha ruled Kievan

Rus as regent for their son, Svyatoslav she was the first Rus ruler to convert to

Christianity, either in 945 or in 957. the reign of Sviatoslav I Ihorovych (962–72)

was marked by warfare. in 980, Prince Volodymyr unified the country

• he adopted Christianity in 988 • he converted the population into Christianity

• in history he is known as Volodymyr the Great or Saint Volodymyr

Princess Olha

Volodymyt the Great

Yaroslav the Great :• promoted family ties with other kingdoms

• built many churches• improved Kyiv's fortifications

• introduced laws and established courts• was a patron of book culture and learning

• sponsored the construction of the Saint Sophia Cathedral in 1037

Yaroslav the Wise

after death of Monomakh in 1125 Ukraine remained fragmented into the numerous principalities

Kyiv lost it's power and influence the invasion of the Mongols in 1236–40 finally

destroyed the state

King Danylo

King Danylo’ crown

Danylo was succeeded by his son Lev• moved the capital to Lviv in 1272

• maintained the strength of Galicia–Volhynia• worked closely with the Mongols

Yuriy I lost Lublin to the Poles and Transcarpathia to the Hungarians

Yuriy’s sons died together in 1323 the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of

Lithuania divided up Galicia-Volhynia between them

Prince Lev

after 1400 that the Cossacks emerge as an established and identifiable group in historical accounts

Cossack society was a loose federation of independent communities, often merging into larger units of a military character, entirely separate from, and mostly independent of, other nations

two independent territorial organisations: Zaporizhia and the Don Cossack State

Hetman was the title used by commanders of the Ukrainian Dnieper Cossacks from the end of the 16 century

Zaporizka Sich was the social and political and military and administrative organization of the Ukrainian Cossacks, founded in the first part of XVI century beyond the Dnieper banks in the area of Khortitsia island

by 1618 the Zaporozhians were members of the Anti-Turkish League

after 1624 the Cossacks began to devote their martial energies to land-based campaigns

View of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station from Khortytsia.

Zaporizka Sich

The importance of Zaporozhian Cossacks in shaping the Ukrainian identity means that the Greater Coat of arms of Ukraine features a Zaporozhian Cossack figure on the right of the national emblem

Khmelnytsky Uprising continued from 1648–1657 or 1654

Bohdan Khmelnytsky: • was elected Captain of the registered

Cossacks in Chyhyryn• organized supporters and plotted an

uprising against the Polish landlords• he sought the aid of the Crimean Tatars

• was elected by The Cossack Rada as Hetman in 1648

Bohdan Khmelnytsky

• gained numerous privileges for the Cossacks under the Treaty of Zboriv

• was abandoned by his former allies the Crimean Tatars

• in 1654 Khmelnytsky persuaded the Cossacks to ally with the Russian tsar in the Treaty of Pereyaslav

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1648

Diminished scope of Polish-Lithuanian control

• the Treaty of Pereyaslav:• gave the Ukrainian Cossack state the

protection of the tsar.  • Moscow demanded taxes to be collected from

the Ukrainian people• Moscow used the Treaty as a ‘backdoor’ to

future Ukrainian internal affairs• the Cossacks became more and more

integrated into the Russian Empire Cossacks gradually lost their independence,

and were abolished by Catherine II in 1775

During almost 150 years Ukrainians were under the power of two empires: 80 percent were subject to the Russian emperor; the rest settled the empire of Habsburgs.

Like all empires those of the Russian Romanovs and the Austrian Habsburgs were vast territorial conglomerates containing huge populations of ethnically and culturally diverse peoples.

Political power was highly centralized and vested in the person of the emperor who saw no need to take into account the views or desires of his subjects.

The Russian empire: • was one of the biggest in the world.

• differed from other European countries by its political system.

• tsars-emperors had an unlimited power • tsars had absolute power over all

nationals in all areas of their life. • as for the language and culture, the

Ukrainians were closely subjected to Russians

• the government soon began to consider Ukraine as Russian side.

The Russian Empire in 1866

• feature of imperial presence in Ukraine was the army

• the term of service accounted 25 years• corruption at which government silently

closed the eyes was everywhere • Ukrainian lands lost all traces of their

national distinctiveness• the territories were reorganized into

regular Russian provinces• the Ukrainian nobility gradually became

Russified• process of enserfment of the peasantry

culminated in 1783 under Catherine

Serfdom remained until the emancipation of 1861

the development of industry especially in eastern Ukraine

the growing urban centres became highly Russified

• The first modern university in Ukraine was established in 1805 at Kharkiv

• Universities had a stimulative effect on the Ukrainian national movement

• Literature became the primary vehicle for the Ukrainian national revival

• The most important writer was Taras Shevchenko: was bought out of servitude by a

group of artists his poetry reflected a conception of

Ukraine as a free and democratic society

had a profound influence on the development of Ukrainian political

thought his patriotic verse earned him arrest

and years of exile in Central Asia

Taras Shevechenko

the revolution in 1905 transformed the tsarist autocracy into a semiconstitutional monarchy

some easing in Ukrainian national life

Duma in 1906 provided Ukrainians with a new forum to press their national concerns

Administrative divisions of Russian Empire superimposed on map of Ukraine

Halychyna, Bukovina andTranscarpathia were under the Habsburg monarchy

striking feature of this empire remained its ethnic variety

Zakarpattya was included to the Hungarian part of the Habsburg’s empire and was isolated from other Ukrainian lands

Ukrainians in Austria enjoyed greater opportunities for their national development and made greater progress than did Ukrainians in tsarist Russia

The Austrian Empire

the reforms initiated by Maria Theresa and Joseph II improved the position of Ukrainians

improvement in the legal and social position of the Ukrainian urban population

allowance for instruction in the native language

the Greek Catholic church became a major national and religious, institution

the revolution of 1848 set in motion important transformations in Galician society

the corvée was abolished in 1848 impoverishment of the Ukrainian peasantry

increased emigration to the Americas began in the

1880s

there were pro-Russian sympathies among the older

the Russophiles promoted a hybrid Ukrainian-Russian language and a cultural and political orientation toward Russia

By the outbreak of World War I, Ukrainians in Austrian part of Ukraine: were still an overwhelmingly agrarian and

politically disadvantaged society had made impressive educational and cultural

advances possessed a large native intelligentsia and an

extensive institutional infrastructure achieved a high level of national consciousness

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