Rive Droite

In 1658 the Ukrainians rose against the Muscovites, whom they defeated in 1659.

The Poles succeeded in occupying the Ukraine of the right bank in 1660, but were obliged to abandon the country four years later.

In 1666, the Ukrainians of both banks succeeded in detaching themselves from the Muscovites, but in the following year, by the peace of Andrusov, the Tsar regained the left bank.

In 1709, Matzepa, so grossly libelled by Russian historians, Ivan Kolodinsky Matzepa, hetman of the Ukraine, joined forces with Charles XII of Sweden against the Russians.

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When Matsepa first came to the Dnieper, he found the Ukraine divided, the people of the left bank observing their allegiance to the Tsar, while those of the right bank had shaken off his rule under their hetman, Doroshenko.

Matsepa threw in his lot with Doroshenko, who made him his chancellor, Ekrivian General, and in 1674 sent him on a mission to Constantinople to ask for troops against Russia.