Bratslavshchina



Bratslavshchina ( Ukrainian Bratslavshchina ) - the historical region (region) in the eastern Podolia in the XIV-XVIII centuries.

It occupied the territory of the modern Vinnitsa Oblast of Ukraine, as well as partly of Cherkasy, Kirovograd and Odessa regions. The name comes from the city of Bratslav, its administrative center.

History
In 1362 the lands of the Bratslavshchina were seized by the Grand Duke of Lithuania Olgerd from the Old Russian princes. In the 1460s, the Bratslav province was created on the territorial basis of the Bratslav region, which, after the conclusion of the Union of Lublin, was ceded to Poland. The population of Bratslavshchina actively participated in the liberation uprisings against the Polish invaders. Among them, it is worth noting the Bratslav-Vinnitsa uprising, Kosinsky, Nalyvayko, Zhmailo, Fedorovich and Pavlyuk uprisings. In 1648, freed from the Polish nobility Bratslavshchina created a new administrative unit - the Bratslavsky regiment, whose Cossacks took part in the battles of the Khmelnitsky uprising.

After the conclusion of the Andrusovo truce in 1667, under the terms of which Ukraine was divided between the Russian kingdom and the Commonwealth, Bratslavshchina, like the whole Right-Bank Ukraine , was ceded to Poland. However, the anti-Polish uprisings did not subside. They were headed by hetman Peter Doroshenko, Colonels Andrei Abazin and Semyon Paliy. The latter was the leader of a major uprising against the Polish gentry. Bratslavshchina suffered greatly from the Crimean Tatar raids and military campaigns of the Turks against the Commonwealth, especially in the second half of the XVII century. In 1712, after signingPrut Peace Treaty Bratslav regiment was abolished.

Due to the second partition of Poland in 1793 Bratslavshchina became part of the Russian Empire and its territorial basis was created Bratslav governorship ( Bratslav, Vinnitsa, Gaysinsky, Tulchin, Yampolsky, Mogilev, Makhno, Lipovetsk, Pyatigorsk, Bershad, Litinsk, Khmelnitsky, Skvirsky counties). In 1796 (1797) after the liquidation of the provincesin Russia, the territory of Bratslavshchina (together with the Podolsky governorship) became part of the Podolsk (mostly) and Kiev provinces (Pyatigorsk rayon, Skvirsk Rayon, Makhnovsk Rayon, Lipovetsky counties; the latter are now [[Vinnitsa Oblast).

Links

 * И. Дорош. Землевладения украинской (литовской, польской) шляхты на БРАЦЛАВЩИНЕ с конца XIV до середины XVII ст. — на стр. Винницкого краеведческого музея