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A collection of documents is the second volume of the manuscript no. 189 compiled by Marcin Goliński, a councilor of Kazimierz near Cracow. This book is preserved in the Manuscript Department of the Vasyl Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific... more

A collection of documents is the second volume of the manuscript no. 189 compiled by Marcin Goliński, a councilor of Kazimierz near Cracow. This book is preserved in the Manuscript Department of the Vasyl Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library. The documents concern the social, political, economic, cultural, and everyday history of Ukraine, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and other countries of Central and Eastern Europe in 1650–1653. The main events during this time were the ratification of the Treaty of Zboriv in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1650), Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s Moldavian policy in 1650 and 1652-1653, the Ukrainian-Polish war in early 1651, Berestechko campaign and the conclusion of the Treaty of Bila Tserkva (1651), the battle at Batih (1652), its consequences, Zhvanets campaign (1653), and so forth. The collection contains valuable sources on monetary reform in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1650–1651, the uprising of Aleksander Leon Kostka-Napierski in Poland (1651), the spread of the plague in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Ukraine in 1651–1652, diplomatic relations between Ukraine, Poland, Muscovy, Sweden, Transylvania, Moldavia, Wallachia, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Crimean Khanate, Ottoman Empire, Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, and other powers. The documents are divided into charters, edicts, letters of rulers and other officials, ambassadorial instructions, reports, international treaties, diaries or letters of participants in military campaigns, news from different parts of Europe and the Ottoman Empire, Goliński's notes who was the eyewitness of the time, astrological treatises as the evidence of social mentality of the epoch, and so forth.