The Mission of Mazepa's Supporters Myrovych and Nakhymovskyi in Crimea in the 1750s in the Context of Implementing the Eastern Policy by the Kingdom of France
Journal: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Year: 2022

After the death of Pylyp Orlyk in 1742, the supporters of Hetmans Ivan Mazepa and Pylyp Orlyk, one of the last representatives of the Mazepian emigration Fedir Myrovych and Fedir Nakhymovskyi joined the corps of Orlyk’s son Hryhir. In the 1750s, they became his effective assistants in the matter of political and legal recognition of the Cossack factor as one of the dominant foreign policy activities of the Versailles Cabinet in front of the French political elite. In the early 1750s, Hryhir Orly