Tremor Field. Battle of Okhmatovskaya, 1655.
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Tremor Field. Battle of Okhmatovskaya, 1655.
29.99 €
In the cold January of 1655, Cossack Ukraine, which had rebelled against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, literally stood on the brink of the abyss. All of Bohdan Khmelnytsky's previous resounding victories over the Polish forces could have been wiped out by one crushing defeat of the Zaporozhian Host and the hetman's death at the Battle of Drozha-Pole.
Almost all of Bohdan Khmelnytsky's major battles have been extensively researched by Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian historians. The same cannot be said of the famous hetman's last major engagement—the Battle of Okhmativka, or, as the participants later called it due to the bitter cold, the "Battle of Drozha-Pole." To this day, we know very little about the role played by V.B. Sheremeteva, together with Khmelnytsky's Cossacks, stopped the advance of Polish and Crimean Tatar troops into Ukraine on an empty, snow-covered field approximately 50 km north of Uman, between the towns of Stavishche and Okhmatov.
I.B. Babulin's new book represents the most detailed and comprehensive study of the 1654–1655 military campaign in Ukraine, which marked the first major clash between Russian and Polish troops during the Russian–Lithuanian Commonwealth War of 1654–1667. This work draws on a wide range of archival sources, many of which are being introduced into scholarly circulation for the first time.
Almost all of Bohdan Khmelnytsky's major battles have been extensively researched by Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian historians. The same cannot be said of the famous hetman's last major engagement—the Battle of Okhmativka, or, as the participants later called it due to the bitter cold, the "Battle of Drozha-Pole." To this day, we know very little about the role played by V.B. Sheremeteva, together with Khmelnytsky's Cossacks, stopped the advance of Polish and Crimean Tatar troops into Ukraine on an empty, snow-covered field approximately 50 km north of Uman, between the towns of Stavishche and Okhmatov.
I.B. Babulin's new book represents the most detailed and comprehensive study of the 1654–1655 military campaign in Ukraine, which marked the first major clash between Russian and Polish troops during the Russian–Lithuanian Commonwealth War of 1654–1667. This work draws on a wide range of archival sources, many of which are being introduced into scholarly circulation for the first time.
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