Pylyp Orlyk and his constitution
CABINET OF MINISTERS OF
UKRAINE
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF
LIFE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES OF UKRAINE
Department of History of
Ukraine
PAPER
“Pylyp Orlyk and his
Constitution"
first-year student
group № 2
Vasyl Palyadnik
Scientific Advisor
associate professor Isakova N. P.
Kyiv - 2009
Plan
I. Biography
II. Family
III. Constitution
Conclusions
Resources
I. Biography
Pylyp Orlyk was born in the village of Kosuta, Ashmyany <#"1.files/image001.gif">
After years fighting against the Muscovite tsars, Orlyk fled
first to Sweden
<http://www.answers.com/topic/sweden>, and then passed through
central Europe to the relative safety of the Ottoman lands. On 2 November <http://www.answers.com/topic/november-2-1>
1722 <http://www.answers.com/topic/1722>… the fifty-year-old Orlyk
was ordered by the Porte
<http://www.answers.com/topic/porte> to Salonica. There this
cultivated and warm-hearted man spent no less than twelve years in exile,
watching the twists and turns of European politics from the sidelines while his
impoverished wife remained in Cracow
<http://www.answers.com/topic/krak-w-2> and his eight children
were dispersed throughout Europe. Only in March 1734 was he released, thanks to
French intervention, and allowed to move north; still trying to organize an
uprising in the Ukraine, he died in poverty nine years later. Orlyk's
misfortune has proved to be the historian's gain, for from the day of his
arrival he kept a diary which offers a unique insight into the
eighteenth-century city… His urgent scrawl gives access not only to his
voluminous political correspondence, most of which - in Latin, French, Polish
and Ukrainian - was duly copied into his journals, but also to the rigours of
daily life in his place of exile. The misbehaviour of his loutish servants, the
local fare, his bag after a day's shooting in the plains, stories told him by
tailors, interpreters and bodyguards enliven its pages. Jesuits, consuls,
doctors, spies and the Turkish judges and governors who ran the city all
encountered the busy exile. Most of the time, he lived well, considering his
predicament…
Resources
1. Doroshenko
D. The essay os history of Ukraine by 2 b. - K.: Globus, 1991, b.2;
3. The
bases of state
and rights of Ukraine. - K., 1993;
4. The
first Constitution of Ukraine by hetman Pylyp Orlyk.1710. - K.: Veselka, 1994.;
5. Pylyp
Orlyk / Hetman-emigrant… K., 1991.