The London Gazette – Wikipedia is one of the official journals of record or government gazettes of the Government of the United Kingdom, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom. It claims to be the oldest surviving English newspaper and the oldest continuously published newspaper in the UK.
The official archived scan in high resolution is here https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/363/page/1
As can be seen, 350 years ago, the name of the country of Ukraine was spelled somewhat differently than now:
“From Ukrania we are advised, that Doroshenko, the formerly deposed General of the Cossacks, having entred into the acquaintance of a principal Schismatkk of the Countrey, had by his means and addresses wonne to himself the heirts of the most considerable persons amongst them, in somuch as in one of their popular Assemblies, such an effectual speech was made to them in his favour, that the people were with much Artifice drawn to desire him to return again eo his Command, which he complying with in ano ther speech, set forth to them the necessity of their stand ing by him for the future, in the justification of whatsoever he should undertake for their defence, and advantage.”
It is exactly to this period Ilya Repin devoted his famous The Reply of the Zoporizhian Cossacks painting.
For some reason, the Gazette writes about two different countries – about Muscovy, ruled by the Grand Duke, and about Ukraine, ruled by Cossack General Doroshenko.
Those 17th-century Englishmen were strange – they didn’t know that Lenin would “invent Ukraine” only 250 years later (according to some Moscow ruler of the 21st century).
It is also interesting to note that the name of the realm to the north of Ukraine was ‘Muscovy’ and not ‘Russia’.
Peter I was known as Tzar of Moscovy until he captured the heartland of Rus – Kyiv >
The ebook ‘Gardariki, Ukraine‘ has more little-known facts about early histories of the two absolutely different realms.
