Page 85 - 4331
P. 85

Russia count P. Rumyantsev.
            1765              There  were  5  sloboda  Cossack  regiments
                              liquidated.  Regular  Hussars  regiments  were
                              formed      instead.     Five     regimental
                              administrative  districts  were  changed  into
                              Sloboda-Ukrainian province with all-Russian
                              administration boards.
            1765– 1769        The revision (census) and inventory of lands
                              and  property  –  the  so-called  ‘The  General
                              Inventory of Little Russia”.
            1768              Uprising    in    right-bank    Ukraine     -
                              Koliyivschyna.    In   spring   Zaporozhian
                              Cossack  Maksym  Zaliznyak  gathered  the
                              detachment  of  haidamaky  in  Holodnyi  Yar
                              and started uprising that covered Kyiv region,
                              Bratslav region and Podillya. In the beginning
                              of June they occupied Uman’ with support of
                              sotnyk  Ivan  Honta.  Scared  with  the  large-
                              scale uprising and  its  further expansion over
                              the   Left-bank    Ukraine,   the    Russian
                              government ordered to crush the uprising. In
                              July  Russian  troops  surrounded  the  camp  of
                              haidamaky  under  Uman’,  arrested  rebels.
                              Russian  citizens  including  Zaliznyak  were
                              brought  in  Kyiv  and  after  corporal
                              punishment  exiled  to  Siberia.  Residents  of
                              right-bank  Ukraine  as  citizens  of  Polish-
                              Lithuanian Commonwealth were given to the
                              Polish authorities for punishment. They were
                              extremely  cruel  and  violent  in  their  revenge
                              (more than 700 gallows  were erected on the
                              way  from  Uman’  to  Lviv).  Honta  was
                              subjected to a terrible torture – they took off a



                                          83
   80   81   82   83   84   85   86   87   88   89   90