The Problem of Return of Ukrainian Prisoners from Tatar Captivity in the Times of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi
Journal: Ukrainian Studies
Year: 2015

The purpose of the article is to determine whether returning from the Tatar captivity was the significant factor of reducing of civilian casualties in Volyn as result of actions of the Crimean Khanate troops. Based on documentary materials and chronicles the author stands up the opinion that most of the jasyr removed by the Tatars to the Crimea was completely lost for the Ukrainian society.