Cossacks Join the Tsar, 1654

🫧 Open on Bubbles From The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine , by Serhii Plokhy (Basic Books, 2017), Kindle pp. 159-161: THE TURNING POINT in the internationalization of the Khmelnytsky Revolt took place on January 8, 1654, in the town of Pereiaslav . On that day, Bohdan Khmelnytsky and a hastily gathered group of Cossack officers swore allegiance to the new sovereign of Ukraine, Tsar Aleksei Romanov of Muscovy. The long and complex history of Russo-Ukrainian relations had begun. In 1954, the Soviet Uni