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later  by  I.  Baryatynsky  and  others.  That
                              government conducted the policy of complete
                              subjugation of Ukraine.
            1735              The tsar’s decree of the division of Cossacks
                              into  registered (the rich ones), who were on
                              military  service  and  so-called  pidsusidky
                              (poor  peasants  living  in  somebody  else’s
                              house), who had to provide for the army.
            1735-             The  Russo-Turkish  war,  with  Ukraine  as  a
            1739              main  base  for  the  Russian  army.  Many
                              Cossacks got lost in that war, the Hetmanate
                              became  very  poor.  As  a  consequence  of  a
                              peace  treaty,  Russia  got  only  Zaporozhian
                              lands  (later  they  were  called  Katerynoslav
                              region and a part of Kherson region) but not
                              outlet to the Black Sea.
            1750– 1764        Kyrylo  Rozumovsky’s  hetman  rule.  During
                              the reign of Elizabeth, the daughter of Peter І,
                              the  hetmanate  was  restored  –  in  1750  the
                              council  in  Gluhiv  elected  the  tsarina’s
                              favourite’s  brother  (a  husband  according  to
                              other  data)  22-year-old  Kyrylo  Rozumovsky
                              hetman.  He  was  married  to  Naryshkina,  the
                              tsarina’s niece.
                              During his rule:
                              1)  the  affairs  of  Ukraine  were  handed  from
                              the  Senate  back  to  the  Board  of  foreign
                              affairs;
                              2) Kyiv and Zaporozhian Sich went under the
                              authority of hetman again;
                              3)  judicial  system was reformed. Previously,
                              there  were  Cossack  courts  in  Ukraine:
                              General court, regimental, sotnya and village



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