The Battle of Poltava and the Final Defeat of the Hetmanate (1709)
The decisive battle of the Great Northern War, in the course of which the military backbone of Ukrainian autonomy was finally eliminated. The defeat of the Swedish-Cossack alliance allowed Moscow to move from suppressing uprisings to the systematic dismantling of the Hetmanate's political agency[1].
Actors
| ID | Name | Procedures |
|---|---|---|
| G0008 | Tsardom of Muscovy | 3 |
Instruments Applied
| ID | Name | Procedures |
|---|---|---|
| S0010 | Regular Army | 2 |
| S0008 | Government | 1 |
Procedures Carried Out
Physical destruction of the armed forces of the supporters of independence in a general battle in order to eliminate the military potential of the resistance[1].
Mass executions of captured Cossacks after the capitulation at Perevolochna and Poltava for the final intimidation of the supporters of autonomy[1].
The liquidation of the autonomy's statehood and international agency as a result of the defeat of the Swedish-Ukrainian forces. The rout at Poltava set off an irreversible process of dismantlement: "In the hundred years after the famous Pereiaslav Council, Ukraine traveled the path from the 'Articles of Bohdan Khmelnytsky'… to the de facto liquidation of the autonomy and the hetmanate, to the country's transformation into an ordinary province of the Russian Empire"[1].