Ukrainian redaction of Orlyk's "Constitution"

[Natalia Pylypiuk]

Dear Colleagues,

I have just returned from Kyiv, where I attended a conference at the National University of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, devoted to hetman Pylyp (Philip) Orlyk.  With your indulgence, I am forwarding a press release prepared by the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, announcing the publication by year's end of a scholarly edition of Orlyk's pacta conventa of 1710, better known as Orlyk's "Constitution."  

Of interest to specialists of the period is the fact that the link below leads to a PDF copy of the original Ukrainian version of the "Constitution," which was  found in 2008, in Russia.

Best wishes,

Natalia Pylypiuk, PhD, Professor
Ukrainian Culture, Language & Literature Program
[www.arts.ualberta.ca/~ukraina/] 
Modern Languages & Cultural Studies
University of Alberta


> The Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of
> Ukraine has posted on the Web a facsimile of the recently found
> original of Pylyp Orlyk’s “Constitution.”   The document is in
> Ukrainian, signed by the Hetman and stamped with the Zaporozhian Host
> seal.  See:
> 
> http://www.history.org.ua/index.php?urlcrnt=LiberUA/select_PDF.php&isbn=konst_P_Orl
> 
> 
> More:
> 
> A scholarly edition of Orlyk's Constitution is being prepared by the
> Institute of History of Ukraine (NAS of Ukraine) and the Central State
> Historical Archives of Ukraine in Kyiv.
> 
> The publication will cover the body of all known texts (with
> facsimiles, transliterations and translations into Ukrainian and other
> European languages), including the Ukrainian original found in the
> Russian State Archives of Early Acts in 2008 by Kyiv archivist Olha
> Vovk.  Commentary and several research papers will also be included.
> 
> Taking into account the significance of this important finding and the
> high level of interest in this unique document, the publishers have
> posted it on the Internet.  In this way, the general public can access
> a suitable resolution image of the Ukrainian original.  Viewers
> interested in reproducing the text are required to acknowledge the
> source and cite the Internet page reference:
> http://www.history.org.ua/index.php?urlcrnt=LiberUA/select_PDF.php&isbn=konst_P_Orl
> 
> =================================



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