
A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa
"I, Hetman Ivan Mazepa have declared this beautiful country an independent state... and for this I've received an eternal curse, an anathema, from the one who raped my land the worst of all — from Moscow Tsar Peter I."

"I, Hetman Ivan Mazepa have declared this beautiful country an independent state... and for this I've received an eternal curse, an anathema, from the one who raped my land the worst of all — from Moscow Tsar Peter I."
During an interesting era in the history of Eastern Europe when Russia, under Peter the Great, and Sweden, under King Charles XII, struggled for power, Ukraine was the pawn in the middle. In 1709, Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of Ukraine, which was part of the Russian Empire, signed a pact with the Swedish king promising to support Sweden in its war against Russia provided that Ukraine was given its independence.

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Bohdan Stupka
Hetman Mazepa

Lyudmila Efimenko
Liubov Kochubei

Nikita Dzhigurda
King Charles XII

Viacheslav Dovzhenko
Tsar Peter I

Viktor Demertash
Judge General Kochubei

Serhii Romaniuk
Cossack Leleka

Pylyp Illienko
Young Mazepa

Les Serdyuk
Hetman Samoilovych

Ostap Stupka
Chancellor Orlyk

Mikhail Golubovich
Zaporozhian Leader Sirko

Oleh Drach
Prince Vasili Golitsyn

Rayisa Nedashkivska
Gypsy Sorceress