“Fortress” of Prince Dmitry Vishnevetskyo in Zaporizha

Щербак, Віталій Олексійович (2024) “Fortress” of Prince Dmitry Vishnevetskyo in Zaporizha Сіверянський літопис (2). pp. 29-35. ISSN 2518-7430

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Abstract

The article is devoted to the genesis of the Zaporozhian Sich, on the clarification of which the approach to the coverage of the history of the Zaporozhian Cossacks largely depends. It has attracted the attention of more than one generation of scholars, generating a wide range of opinions. The chronological boundaries within which researchers defined the beginning of the Sich are quite significant: extreme views on this event are separated by more than a century. The purpose of the article is to refute the stereotype of national history about the «fortress» of Prince Dmytro Vyshnevetskyi as the first Zaporozhian Sich. The research methodology is based on the principles of historicism, scientific objectivity, and a dialectical approach to the analysis of historical phenomena. Conclusions. The emergence of the Cossack center on the southern border was due to the growth of its numbers and the need to protect Ukrainian lands from Tatar expansion. No direct evidence of the functioning of the Sich in the 50s of the 16th c. has been found in written sources, only the presence of a «fortress» or «castle» in Zaporizhzhia is recorded. Hence, the idea of identifying Dmytro Vyshnevetskyі «fortress» with the so-called Khortytska Sich seems doubtful. At the same time, the representative of an aristocratic family made great efforts to defend Ukrainian lands, thus contributing to the consolidation of the Cossack population. This is the outstanding role of prince-knight Dmytro Vyshnevetskyi in national history. And the castle he built on the Kichka cape of the Dnipro river, also recorded in the sources on the island of Mala Khortytsia, became a kind of prototype of the fortification of the Zaporozhian community, which, having established itself on the island of Tomakivka in the 80s of the 16th c., was called the Zaporozhian Sich.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Zaporozhian Sich; castle; fortress; Dmytro Vyshnevetskyi; Cossacks; Zaporozhians
Subjects:	Статті у періодичних виданнях > Фахові (входять до переліку фахових, затверджений МОН)
Divisions:	Факультет суспільно-гуманітарних наук > Кафедра історії України
Depositing User:	Руслан Ростиславович Куцик
Date Deposited:	05 Mar 2025 12:01
Last Modified:	05 Mar 2025 12:01
URI:	https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/51310

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