The Moscow Articles of 1665 was an agreement signed on 11 October 1665 between the Cossack Hetmanate Hetman Ivan Briukhovetsky and the Tsardom of Russia.
The Cossack Hetmanate, officially known as the Zaporizhian Host was a Ukrainian Cossack host in Central Ukraine between 1649 and 1764.
Hetman is a political title from Central and Eastern Europe, historically assigned to military commanders.
Ivan Briukhovetsky was a hetman of Left-bank Ukraine from 1663 to 1668. In the early years of rule his was positioned as pro-Russian policies incited a rebellion which he later joined in an attempt to salvage his reputation and authority. Later leader of the Anti-Moscow uprising. His assessments as a rule differ in the part of Ukrainian historians which are supporters Petro Doroshenko.
The treaty put Left-Bank Ukraine under the control of the Russian Tsar. The terms of the agreements were:
Tsar, also spelled czar, or tzar, is a title used to designate East and South Slavic monarchs or supreme rulers of Eastern Europe, originally Bulgarian monarchs from 10th century onwards. As a system of government in the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, it is known as Tsarist autocracy, or Tsarism. The term is derived from the Latin word Caesar, which was intended to mean "Emperor" in the European medieval sense of the term—a ruler with the same rank as a Roman emperor, holding it by the approval of another emperor or a supreme ecclesiastical official —but was usually considered by western Europeans to be equivalent to king, or to be somewhat in between a royal and imperial rank.
- Russian military governors were to take control of all military, administrative, and fiscal power
- Increased number of troops in Ukraine, and the obligation to feed and maintain them
- Garrisons in all major towns: Chernihiv, Pereiaslav, Nizhyn, Poltava, Kremenchuk, Novhorod-Siverskyi, Oster, Kiev, Kaniv, and Kodak
- Taxes collected and put in the Tsar's treasury
- The Ukrainian Orthodox Church was made subordinate to the Patriarch of Moscow
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Nížyn is a city located in Chernihiv Oblast (province) of northern Ukraine, along the Oster River, 150 km (93 mi) north-east of the nation's capital, Kiev. It is the administrative center of Nizhyn Raion, though the city itself is incorporated as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. Once it was a major city of the Chernigov Governorate.
This agreement was largely viewed in Ukraine unfavorably as treason and caused massive uproar. It was one of the reasons for Hetman Briukhovetsky's murder by a Cossack mob.
