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Read the Eyewitness Chronicle in Middle Ukrainian. Level C2: Khmelnytsky’s uprising and the Ruin, 1648-1702, told by a Cossack contemporary, with word translation.
Cossack army and offices (гетман, полковник, сотник, старшина, рада), Middle Ukrainian chancery language with Polish loans (барзо, жебы, албо, зась), Church Slavonic forms, old spelling (ѣ, ъ, ы), events of the Khmelnytsky uprising and the Ruin, very long sentences
This article contains the full text of the Eyewitness Chronicle (Літопис Самовидця), an anonymous Cossack contemporary’s account of Khmelnytsky’s uprising and the Ruin from 1648 to 1702, written around 1700, with the short Khmilnyk Chronicle (1636-1650) appended. Level C2 suits readers ready for 17th-century chancery Ukrainian with Polish and Church Slavonic words, in the old spelling of the 1878 edition. You will learn the vocabulary of the Cossack army and offices, the places and events of the Hetmanate, and old case forms.
