“PEOPLE WANTED FREEDOM”: REFLECTION OF THE “KIEVAN KOZACHCHYNA” OF 1855 IN THE CORRESPONDENCE AND DIARY NOTES BY HRYHORIY GALAGAN

Mass riots of serfs in Right-bank Ukraine in the spring of 1855, known in historiography as the “Kyievan Kozachchyna”, is an important topic that should be careful researched, especially from a cultural and anthropological points of view. In this way it is possible to identify the deep motivation of...

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Main Author: Yevgen Kovalyov
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Published: Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University 2020-12-01
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Online Access:https://istorstudio.kubg.edu.ua/index.php/journal/article/view/250
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description Mass riots of serfs in Right-bank Ukraine in the spring of 1855, known in historiography as the “Kyievan Kozachchyna”, is an important topic that should be careful researched, especially from a cultural and anthropological points of view. In this way it is possible to identify the deep motivation of the peasants’ actions and to explain the reaction of the landlords, clergy and government officials. An important source for the study of the “Kievan Kozachchyna” is the correspondence and diary notes of the Ukrainian public figure Hryhoriy Galagan (1819–1888) of this time. These texts contain not only his own views on the causes, course and consequences of the mass peasant riots in the Kyiv region in the spring of 1855, but also valuable eyewitness accounts of these events, from the governor-general to the ordinary peasant. Galagan’s narratives show a knot of contradictions between representatives of various strata of the agrarian society of the “pre-reform era”, such as the peasantry, landowners, officials and the clergy. Mutual alienation of these strata, lack of communication between them, being in different discursive fields led to the Kyiv Cossacks.
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spelling doaj-art-23b712071e3949519b44033200cfbfbb2025-08-20T01:54:31ZengBorys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan UniversityКиївські історичні студії2524-07492524-07572020-12-0121113113610.28925/2524-0757.2020.2.18“PEOPLE WANTED FREEDOM”: REFLECTION OF THE “KIEVAN KOZACHCHYNA” OF 1855 IN THE CORRESPONDENCE AND DIARY NOTES BY HRYHORIY GALAGANYevgen Kovalyov0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7740-4332Associate Professor of the Department of History of Ukraine, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, PhD in HistoryMass riots of serfs in Right-bank Ukraine in the spring of 1855, known in historiography as the “Kyievan Kozachchyna”, is an important topic that should be careful researched, especially from a cultural and anthropological points of view. In this way it is possible to identify the deep motivation of the peasants’ actions and to explain the reaction of the landlords, clergy and government officials. An important source for the study of the “Kievan Kozachchyna” is the correspondence and diary notes of the Ukrainian public figure Hryhoriy Galagan (1819–1888) of this time. These texts contain not only his own views on the causes, course and consequences of the mass peasant riots in the Kyiv region in the spring of 1855, but also valuable eyewitness accounts of these events, from the governor-general to the ordinary peasant. Galagan’s narratives show a knot of contradictions between representatives of various strata of the agrarian society of the “pre-reform era”, such as the peasantry, landowners, officials and the clergy. Mutual alienation of these strata, lack of communication between them, being in different discursive fields led to the Kyiv Cossacks.https://istorstudio.kubg.edu.ua/index.php/journal/article/view/250hryhoriy galagankievan kozachchynapeasant riotscorrespondencediary
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“PEOPLE WANTED FREEDOM”: REFLECTION OF THE “KIEVAN KOZACHCHYNA” OF 1855 IN THE CORRESPONDENCE AND DIARY NOTES BY HRYHORIY GALAGAN
Київські історичні студії
hryhoriy galagan
kievan kozachchyna
peasant riots
correspondence
diary
title “PEOPLE WANTED FREEDOM”: REFLECTION OF THE “KIEVAN KOZACHCHYNA” OF 1855 IN THE CORRESPONDENCE AND DIARY NOTES BY HRYHORIY GALAGAN
title_full “PEOPLE WANTED FREEDOM”: REFLECTION OF THE “KIEVAN KOZACHCHYNA” OF 1855 IN THE CORRESPONDENCE AND DIARY NOTES BY HRYHORIY GALAGAN
title_fullStr “PEOPLE WANTED FREEDOM”: REFLECTION OF THE “KIEVAN KOZACHCHYNA” OF 1855 IN THE CORRESPONDENCE AND DIARY NOTES BY HRYHORIY GALAGAN
title_full_unstemmed “PEOPLE WANTED FREEDOM”: REFLECTION OF THE “KIEVAN KOZACHCHYNA” OF 1855 IN THE CORRESPONDENCE AND DIARY NOTES BY HRYHORIY GALAGAN
title_short “PEOPLE WANTED FREEDOM”: REFLECTION OF THE “KIEVAN KOZACHCHYNA” OF 1855 IN THE CORRESPONDENCE AND DIARY NOTES BY HRYHORIY GALAGAN
title_sort people wanted freedom reflection of the kievan kozachchyna of 1855 in the correspondence and diary notes by hryhoriy galagan
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peasant riots
correspondence
diary
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