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Introduction
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TeHetmandiedon24May1742.
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TeHospodarofMoldavia,
ConstantineMavroсordat(1741-1743),hadtomake,stressesTeophil
Rendyuk,“anunusualbutnobledecision.Accordingtotheinfluential
RomanianhistorianP[etre]Panaitescu,theHetmanwasburiedinthe
metropolitancathedralofIaşi.”
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InhisDiary,YevhenMalanyukwrote:
Teyear1742-inMoldova’sIași(26May)inexile,povertyandoblivion(“Moscow
reignseverywhere…Inmyterriblelife,whenhopeinGodwasallIhadlef,Ifound
courageandconsolationinthemajesticstanzasofthewiseDante”)PylypOrlyk
dies.HewasburiedattheexpenseoftheMoldavianhospodar.Inthesameyear,
thesonofaregisteredCossackfromtheChernihivregiment,HryhoryRozum,
“courtbandit”AlexeiRazumovsky
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,marriesElizabeth,EmpressofRussia…
Strangeisourhistory.
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AfragmentoftheDiaryfrom1720-1723,publishedbyJanTokarzewski-
-Karaszewicz
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in1936,revealedonlyafewpreviouslyunknownmoments
inOrlyk’sbiography.Twentyyearslater,on16September1958,theforce
ofthisdiscoveryresoundeddramaticallyinthenotementionedabovefrom
theDiaryofthe20
th
-centuryémigréYevhenMalanyuk.
TestateofresearchonOrlyk’sDiary:
megalomaniaorareturntothesources?
TereismuchresearchonOrlykandevenmorepopularsciencepapers.
GiventheabundantliteratureonHetman’sbiography,
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DanielBeauvois
35TereisstillnoconsensusaboutthedateofHetman’sdeath,whichismentioned
indiferentsources:YevhenMalanyukindicates26May1742;NataliaYakovenko,onthe
otherhand,givesthedateoftheneworder,sayingthatOrlykdiedon4June,andhisburial
placeisunknown;eadem,op.cit.,p.421.
36See:Т.Pендюк,oр.cit.,p.147.
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AlexeiRazumovsky(1709-1771)-courtchorister,laterRussiancount,fieldmarshal.
In1742hesecretlymarriedEmpressElizabethPetrovnaofRussia,daughterofPeterthe
First.Withhishelp,thehetmanatewasrevivedinUkraine.
38Є.Маланюк,Нотатники1936-1968,KM.;2007,pp.139-140.
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Д.яр.йгетьманаПилипаОрлика,ed.I.
.зТокарТокарже;сbкMйKараше;Mч,
Варша;а1936.
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See:В.P.знMченко,ПилипОрлик(Гетьман-ем.грант).Знагоди175роковинзчасу
йогосмерти,KM.;1918;М.Kостомаро;,“МазепMнц.,”Укра{нський.сторичнийжурнал
1990,8,10,11,12;1991,1,2,3;o.CубтелbнMй,Мазепинц....;o.Pеєнт,I.Kоляда,op.cit.,
pp.297-320;Б.KрупнMцbкMй,ГетьманПилипОрлик(1672-1742):йогожиття.доля...
