In Ukraine they will spend their last hryvnia on a film about the hetman who “fought against Russian colonization”
Kyiv, December 17 (PolitNavigator, Maxim Karpenko) - Ukrainian filmmakers set out to make a film about the last Koshe chieftain of the Zaporozhye Sich, canonized by the UOC-KP - Peter Kalnyshevsky. The newspaper “Ukraine is Young” reports this.
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Kalnyshevsky was arrested a year after the destruction of the Sich on the orders of Empress Catherine II. According to some reports, the arrest of 85-year-old Kalnyshevsky was due to the fact that he was trying to restore the Sich outside the Empire with the help of the Cossacks. Kalnyshevsky was exiled to the Solovetsky Monastery, where he lived in difficult conditions for 25 years, and then was released by Tsar Alexander I.
Kalnyshevsky lived to be 112 years old. To this day, in the main courtyard of the Solovetsky Kremlin in front of the Transfiguration Cathedral lies a tombstone granite slab from the grave of the last Kosh chieftain of the Zaporozhye Sich.
According to the publication, Kalnyshevsky made a significant contribution to the formation of the borders of Ukraine in the modern sense.
“Who knows, Ukraine would exist today within its modern borders if it were not for the consistent, ascetic, long-term activity of Pyotr Kalnyshevsky. He sent his messengers throughout the Ukrainian lands, inviting the landless and land-poor urban Cossacks, common peasants to move to the lower reaches of the Dnieper, on the territory of the Sich Palanki, and thus “populate” the original Sich spaces. This was truly a state decision, the only way the Ukrainian Cossacks could save their lands from final Russian colonization, and, therefore, preserve them for Ukraine,” writes “Ukraine is Young.”
The Ukrainian Charitable Foundation named after Peter Kalnyshevsky plans to film a film about the ataman, but does not have money for it, so it hopes for support from the authorities.
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