Between Poland and the Ukraine: The dilemma of Adam Kysil, 1600–1653

Acknowledgments …ix

Note on Nomenclature and Terminology …xi

Geographic Names …xv

Introduction …1

1. The Commonwealth and the UkrainianLands in the Early Seventeenth Century: The State and Society of the Nobles …5

The Commonwealth of the Nobility in the Silver Age …9

The Ukrainian Lands …20

Religious, National, and Cultural Relations in the Ukraine …26

The Ruthenian Nobility: Acculturation and Assimilation …32

2. The Formative Years (1600–1632) …37

Volhynia at the Time of Kysil’s Birth 38 The Kysil Family …43

Education …46

The Launching of a Career 50 The Synod of 1629 …54

3. The Beginning of the New Reign (1632–1635) …64

The Interregnum and the Election …64

The Smolensk War …71

4. The Ukrainian Lands in the 1630s …78

The Zaporozhian Cossacks …78

The Defense of Orthodoxy in the Diet (1633–1641) …89

The Regionalism of the Incorporation Lands …104

5. The Senatorial Chair …115

The Attempt at a New Church Union …117

The Commonwealth’s Foreign Policy …128

6. The Khmel’nyts’kyi Uprising …141

The Convocation Diet and the Second Peace Mission …152

The Election of Jan Kazimierz …159

From Pereiaslav to Zboriv …164

7. Mediator between the Commonwealth and the Cossack Hetmanate …175

The Ratification of the Zboriv Agreement …175

From Zboriv to Bila Tserkva …180

The Last Years …194

8. The Unresolved Dilemma …202

Appendixes …215

A. Kysil’s Estates and Offices …215

B. Biographies and Secondary Literature …222

C. Sources …230

Notes …239

Bibliography …249

Index …291

Maps

Administrative borders of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, first half of the seventeenth century …xviii

Places of importance in the life of Adam Kysil …xix

Prevailing religious allegiances in Eastern Europe, end of the sixteenth century …xx