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During the Great Northern War (1700–1721) progress, Hetman Mazepa ceased to consider himself loyal to Tsar Peter I and on November 7 (October 28) 1708, when Charles XII was on his way to Moscow and forced to divert his forces toward Central Ukraine, Mazepa joined the Swedish advance. He was followed by about 3000 Cossacks and leading members ...
The Vinnytsia massacre was the mass execution of between 9,000 and 11,000 people in the Ukrainian town of Vinnytsia by the Soviet secret police NKVD during the Great Purge in 1937–1938, which Nazi Germany discovered during its occupation of Ukraine in 1943. [3]
The Rise of the Great Powers 1648–1815 (1983) pp 77–93. Moulton, James R. Peter the Great and the Russian Military Campaigns During the Final Years of the Great Northern War, 1719–1721 (University Press of America, 2005). Oakley, Stewart P. War and Peace in the Baltic, 1560–1790 (Routledge, 2005). Sumner, B. H. (1951).
Olena Zelenska, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is sharing heartbreaking photos of the war’s youngest victims. First lady of Ukraine shares heartbreaking photos of children ...
The Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist opens up about documenting war and being a mother. Lynsey Addario took one of Ukraine's most haunting photos. Now, she shares how her work helps her ...
The Great Northern War in Ukraine (1708–1713) — war between the Tsardom of Russia on one hand and the Swedish Empire and the Ottoman Empire on the other. [1]Since the beginning of the Great Northern War, Ukraine, as a satellite of the Tsardom of Russia, had been supplying Moscow troops with manpower, ammunition, fodder and food.
The painting depicts volunteer Oleksiy Movchan, a 49-year-old who was killed by Russian shelling in May 2022 in the eastern Donetsk region shortly after he and three of his fellow soldiers rescued ...
Pages in category "Great Northern War" ... Northern war in Ukraine; Norway during the Great Northern War; P. Surrender at Perevolochna; Swedish invasion of Poland ...