The Ruin (period of Cossack Hetmanate civil wars)

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The Ruin was a turbulent mid-17th-century period in Ukrainian history marked by civil wars, foreign interventions, and political fragmentation within the Cossack Hetmanate.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical period
period of civil wars
period of political instability
alsoKnownAs Ruin (Ukrainian history)
The Ruin
appliesToTerritory Left-bank Ukraine
Right-bank Ukraine
Zaporizhian Host lands
linked to: Zaporizhian Sich
characterizedBy civil wars
division of the Hetmanate between Left-bank and Right-bank Ukraine
foreign interventions
frequent changes of hetmans
political fragmentation
country Cossack Hetmanate
describedBySource Ukrainian historiography
endTime 1680s
follows Khmelnytsky Uprising
establishment of the Cossack Hetmanate
hasCause conflict between pro-Polish and pro-Muscovite factions
foreign intervention in Cossack Hetmanate affairs
rivalry among Cossack starshyna (officer elite)
social tensions within the Cossack state
succession crisis after Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s death
hasEffect demographic decline in Ukrainian lands
depopulation of parts of Right-bank Ukraine
economic devastation of the Cossack Hetmanate
entrenchment of foreign control over Ukrainian territories
increased influence of Muscovy in Left-bank Ukraine
weakening of Cossack autonomy
hasKeyFigure Demian Mnohohrishny
Ivan Briukhovetsky
Ivan Samoilovych
linked to: Ivan Samoylovych

Ivan Vyhovsky
Petro Doroshenko
Yurii Khmelnytsky
involves Crimean Khanate
Ottoman Empire
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Tsardom of Muscovy
linked to: Tsardom of Russia

Ukrainian peasantry
Zaporizhian Cossacks
languageOfTerm Ukrainian
mainSubject Cossack Hetmanate civil wars
partOf history of Ukraine
history of the Cossack Hetmanate
significantEvent Pereiaslav Articles of 1659
Treaty of Andrusovo
linked to: Truce of Andrusovo

Treaty of Hadiach
Treaty of Slobodyshche
division of the Cossack Hetmanate between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Tsardom of Muscovy
startTime 1657

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Petro Doroshenko participantIn The Ruin (period of Cossack Hetmanate civil wars)
Yurii Khmelnytsky conflict The Ruin (Ukrainian history)
linked to: The Ruin (period of Cossack Hetmanate civil wars)
Ivan Briukhovetsky era Ruin (period of Ukrainian history)
linked to: The Ruin (period of Cossack Hetmanate civil wars)
Battle of Konotop (1659) relatedTo Ruin (period in Ukrainian history)
linked to: The Ruin (period of Cossack Hetmanate civil wars)
The Ruin (period of Cossack Hetmanate civil wars) mainSubject Cossack Hetmanate civil wars
linked to: The Ruin (period of Cossack Hetmanate civil wars)
The Ruin (period of Cossack Hetmanate civil wars) alsoKnownAs Ruin (Ukrainian history)
linked to: The Ruin (period of Cossack Hetmanate civil wars)