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2 unusual facts about Hetmanate


Cossack with musket

# Coat of Arms of Zaporizhian Host Municipal (1648-1670, Cossack Hetmanate) body and head is turned three quarters to the left, feet at shoulder width forward, right arm behind back, left - holds stock of rifle at 45° angle to body

Hetmanate

Cossack Hetmanate, a Cossack state in the central and north-eastern regions of Ukraine during 1649-1775.


Kyrylo Rozumovskyi

During his reign, Baturyn was re-established as capital of the Hetmanate and Rozumovsky had opulent baroque palaces erected both in Baturyn as well as in Hlukhiv by the imperial architect Andrey Kvasov and Charles Cameron.


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