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osavuls;
6) peasants and lower middle class citizens
were forbidden to join Cossack army;
7) Cossacks had the right to settle and live in
frontier cities only, no Cossack had the right
to go to Zaporizhzhya without the
commissar’s passport; otherwise he was
punished by death;
8) Polish army detachments and registered
Cossacks were to be situated in the restored
fortress Kodak and in the Sich;
9) lower middle class citizens and their sons
were forbidden not only join the Cossack
army, but to marry their daughters to
Cossacks; otherwise they were punished by
deprivation of property.
1638 The Cossack-peasant uprising headed by
hetman Yakiv Ostryanytsya, K. Skydan and
D. Hunya. The Cossack army occupied
Kremenchuk and Khorol. However, they were
defeated by the Polish army headed by M.
Pototsky under the town of Lubny. The part
of the rebels retreated into the border regions
of Muscovite Tsardom and founded Cossack
settlements (slobodas), thus initiating Sloboda
Ukraine.

CHAPTER IІІ. THE NEW HISTORY OF UKRAINE.

THEME 8. The national liberation struggle of Ukrainian
people headed by B. Khmelnytsky (1649-1657).

1648– 1657 B. Khmelnytsky’s hetmanate.

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