Poltava 1709 : the battle and the myth

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Poltava 1709 : the battle and the myth

Title remainder

the battle and the myth

Statement of responsibility

edited by Serhii Plokhy

Creator

• Plokhy, Serhii, 1957-

Contributor

• Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

Editor

• Plokhy, Serhii, 1957-
• Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

Subject

• Poltava, Battle of, Poltava, Ukraine, 1709
• Poltava, Battle of, Poltava, Ukraine, 1709 -- Mythology
• Mazepa, Ivan Stepanovych, 1639-1709

Language

eng

Summary

The Battle of Poltava has long been recognized as a crucial event in the geopolitical history of Europe and a decisive point in the Great Northern War between Sweden and the Russian Empire. The Russian victory at Poltava contributed to the decline of Sweden as a Great Power and was a major setback to Ukrainian independence. Hetman Ivan Mazepa, who joined forces with the Swedish king Charles XII against Tsar Peter I, remains a controversial figure even today. In 2009, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute gathered scholars from around the globe and from many fields of study<U+0127> �history, military affairs, philology, linguistics, literature, art history, music<U+0127> �to mark the 300th anniversary of the battle. This book is a collection of their papers on such topics as the international, Russian, and Ukrainian contexts of the battle; Mazepa in European culture; the language and literature of the period; art and architecture; history and memory; and fact, fiction, and the literary imagination. Mazepa himself is the focus of many of the articles<U+0127> �a hero to Ukrainians but a treacherous figure to Russians. This book provides a fresh look at this watershed event and sheds new light on the legacies of the battle's major players. --

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• Harvard papers in Ukrainian studies

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contains biographical information

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DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

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bibliography

Series statement

Harvard papers in Ukrainian studies