Cossack statehood, vassalage and the registered Cossacks: the 'Our Song Is Good and New…' dispute (05.12.2021)
A fragment of Vitaliy Dribnytsya’s long dispute “Our Song Is Good and New…” on Cossack statehood: vassal-seigneurial relations (with the Duchy of Prussia, which recognized the Polish crown as its suzerain, as an example), the Ottoman vector of Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s policy and the insignia of power he received from the sultan, as well as the structure of the registered and lower Cossacks — the register capped by the Polish authorities (a maximum of 8,000 after the 1630 uprising of Taras Fedorovych) and a series of joint Cossack-peasant uprisings from Kryshtof Kosynsky (1591) to 1637.
Key moments
- 01:56 The Duchy of Prussia recognized the Polish crown as its suzerain (an example of vassalage)
- 03:34 Khmelnytsky received from the Ottoman sultan the insignia of power — a mace and a cap
- 07:24 The Cossack register — a maximum of 8,000 after the uprising of Taras Fedorovych (Triasylo) in 1630
- 08:36 The Kosynsky uprising of 1591 — the start of the joint Cossack-peasant uprisings (1591–1637)