Zhvanetsky agreement

After the disorganization of the Polish army in November-early December 1653 near Zhvanets (not far from Khotyn on the left bank of the Dniester ) caused by a number of factors (hunger, cold and, as a result, low morale), the remaining Polish troops faced the prospect of being cut out by Khmelnitsky’s troops . But the allies of Khmelnitsky - the Tatar army under the command of the Crimean khan Islam-Girey - actually forced the forces of Khmelnitsky to conclude peace ^[1] .

King Jan Casimir allowed the Crimean Khan to rob Ukraine for forty days and capture Russians, but not Poles.

The Polish side, having provided a number of hostages from noble families, was able to prevent the complete destruction of its troops under siege in Zhvanets.

The Tatar detachments received from John II Casimir the right to raid the territory not only in the middle reaches of the Dnieper and in Volyn , but also much to the north, where their detachments have not been for more than two centuries.

The agreement for Khmelnitsky again returned the Zbor articles instead of the provisions of the Belotserkovsky Treaty of 1651 .

Among other things, it removed the Cossack hetman from the subordination of the governor to the direct subordination of the king of Poland and actually removed from the direct submission to the latter the Kiev , Chernihiv and Bratslav voivodships ^[1] .

On January 8, 1654, following the results of the Pereyaslav Rada , the territories outlined by the Zborov articles joined the Russian state ^[2] .

• Zborovsky treatise
• Sources of Little Russian history collected by D.N. Bantysh-Kamensky. - Part I. - M., 1858
• Efimenko A. Ya. History of the Ukrainian people Issue 2 ° C. Petersburg 1906 p. 240
• Chernov A.V. Armed forces of the State of Ryc in the XV — XVII centuries. - M.: Military Publishing, 1954