I, Hetman Ivan Mazepa have declared this beautiful country an independent state... and for this I've received an eternal curse, an anathema, from the one who raped my land the worst of all — from Moscow Tsar Peter I.
During an interesting era in the history of Eastern Europe when Russia, under Peter the Great, and Sweden, under King Charles XII, struggled for power, Ukraine was the pawn in the middle. In 1709, Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of Ukraine, which was part of the Russian Empire, signed a pact with the Swedish king promising to support Sweden in its war against Russia provided that Ukraine was given its independence.
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Bohdan Stupka
Hetman Mazepa
Lyudmila Efimenko
Liubov Kochubei
Nikita Dzhigurda
King Charles XII
Viacheslav Dovzhenko
Tsar Peter I
Viktor Demertash
Judge General Kochubei
Serhii Romaniuk
Cossack Leleka
Pylyp Illienko
Young Mazepa
Les Serdyuk
Hetman Samoilovych
Ostap Stupka
Chancellor Orlyk
Mikhail Golubovich
Zaporozhian Leader Sirko
Oleh Drach
Prince Vasili Golitsyn
Rayisa Nedashkivska
Gypsy Sorceress
Kostiantyn Stepankov
Leader of Free Will
Yurii Illienko
Marshall Zhukov
Yevhen Pidhornyi
guest at the wedding
