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A Description of Ukraine (translated and edited by Andrew B. Pernal and Dennis F. Essar)

Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan · Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute · 1993

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Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan
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2026-09-01
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First published in French in 1651 (enlarged edition 1660). Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies edition, ISBN 091645844X.

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EstablishedThe Zaporozhian Host was governed by a general assembly (rada) that elected and could depose its senior officers, including the kish otaman, while Cossacks lived in kurins that elected their own otamans.