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Theft of Cultural Property

in the campaign “Mazepa's Defection to Sweden and the Baturyn Massacre (1708)”

Deliberate removal of intellectual and historical heritage. The imperial troops did not merely loot — they seized unique documents: "Menshikov managed to carry off... the hetman's archive and Mazepa's library"^[1]^[2].

ID: C0012.T0112

Technique: Theft of Cultural Property

Campaign: Mazepa's Defection to Sweden and the Baturyn Massacre (1708)

Start: October 1708

End: November 1708

Contributors: decolonial.ist project

References

Таирова-Яковлева Т. Г. Мазепа. 2007. – М.: Молодая гвардия, 2007 (серия «Жизнь замечательных людей»). ISBN 978-5-235-02966-8.

Таирова-Яковлева Т. Г. Иван Мазепа и Российская империя. История «предательства». 2011. – М.: Центрполиграф, 2011. ISBN 978-5-227-02578-4.