The Treaty of Pereyaslav refers to the agreement reached at a council in the town of Pereyaslav, in which Bohdan Khmelnytsky and the Zaporozhian Cossack leadership swore allegiance to Tsar Alexis of Russia. The Cossacks were seeking protection against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, with whom they were at war. The nature of the agreement has been interpreted very differently: Russian and Soviet historians presented it as the reunification of Ukraine and Russia, while Ukrainian historians have usually seen it as a military alliance that preserved the Cossack state's autonomy. It led to a long war between Russia and Poland, and its effects shaped the later division of Ukraine between the two powers.
Before and after
- c. 1653The Taj Mahal is completed
- 1654Magdeburg hemispheres
- from 1654 to 1660Anglo-Spanish War
- 1654Founding of Northampton
- 1654Treaty of Pereyaslav
- from 1654 to 1667Russo-Polish War
- c. 1655Birth of Jacob Bernoulli
- 1655Founding of Lawrence
- from 1655 to 1660Deluge
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