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Zaporozhian  Cossacks  with  I.  Sirko  as  their
                              leader  attacked  the  Crimea  and  made  Tatar
                              cavalry leave
                              I.  Vyhosky  and  come  back  home.  Many
                              Russian  garnisons  still  remained  in  the  rear
                              giving a start to new uprisings.
            September         At  the  council  in  Hermanivka  I.  Vyhovsky
            1658              abdicated hetman responsibility,  having  lost
                              the support of major part of Ukraine.
            1659– 1663        Yuriy Khmelnytsky’s hetman  rule.
            October           Y.  Khmelnytsky  signed  Pereyaslav  articles
            1659              with Moscow. According to it:
                              1)  it  was  forbidden  to  elect  hetman  without
                              getting permission of Moscow first;
                              2) hetman was deprived of the right to dismiss
                              and appoint colonels;
                              3)  hetman  did  not  have  the  right  to  punish
                              starshyna without a trial;
                              4)  it  was  forbidden  to  start  any  campaign
                              without getting the tsar’s permission first;
                              5) it was forbidden to keep up relations with
                              other countries;
                              6) Russian garnisons were located in 5 cities
                              of Ukraine;
                              7)  Kyivan  metropoly  (Ukrainian  Orthodox
                              church)  was  to  be  subject  to  Moscow
                              patriarchate;
                              8) giving back trophies taken under Konotop
                              after  defeat  of  the  Russian  army  by  I.
                              Vyhovsky;
                              9)  handling  I.Vyhovsky’s  family  over  to
                              Moscow     and    execution    of   colonels
                              Zhdanovych and Hulianytsky,  who defended



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