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acting hetman by order (it meant he only
acted as hetman). He supported attempts to
liquidate the Little Russia board. Owing to
that fact, he was called to Peter І, arrested and
imprisoned in Petropavlovsk fortress, where
he died later.
1727 The abolition of the Little Russia board.
After a sudden death of Peter І in 1725,
prince O. Menshykov became an actual ruler.
He had a quarrel with the board over the fact,
that it charged high taxes on all private
property and Menshykov was not an
exception. He owned large latifundia in
Ukraine (in Starodub and Nizhyn regiments).
The new tsar Peter ІІ (the grandson of Peter І)
issued the decree of the little Russia board
abolition by advice of his regent Menshykov.
All Ukrainian affairs were handed over from
the Senate to the Board of foreign affairs.
1727– 1734 The hetman rule of Danylo Apostol. In
October 1727 in Gluhiv the hetman elections
took place. D. Apostol, the Myrhorod colonel,
was elected hetman. In 1728 D. Apostol went
to Moscow to be present at the young
emperor Peter’s ІІ coronation. He submitted
“ Article clauses” concerning returning of
rights and liberties to Ukraine in accordance
with B. Khmelnytsky’s Articles. The answer
came in 28 clauses (the so-called Resolution
clauses). They stayed valid to the end of
Hetmanate existence as its main legal
document, which restored the autonomous
order of Ukraine in a formal way.

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