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Charles Louis Lesur (1771-1849), who was commissioned by Napoleon to write a History of the Cossacks. From Borshchak. ТОМЕ II. Title page of volume two of Lesur’s History of the Cossacks published in Paris in 1814. This volume contains considerable Ukrainian material. In suming up the situation in Ukraine during the Napoleonic invasion of Russia, llko Borshchak reviewed the local feelings of dissatisfaction and concluded as follows: “Obviously, one should not exaggerate this opposition movement and draw any conclusions about some kind of organized separatism. The political thought of the Ukrainian nobility during Napoleon’s time cer tainly did not go that far. But it seems to me that such separatism would have become an accomplished fact if Napoleon’s army had entered Ukraine. A modern Maz epa certainly would have been found among the old Ukrainian gentry.” Since Napoleon’s army did not come anywhere close to Ukraine, Borshchak’s conclusion must remain one of the great “what ifs” of Ukrainian history. Moreover, it must also be admitted that the Napoleonic wars had a less direct impact upon the emergence of modern Ukraine than they did upon the emergence of modern Poland and modern Russia where important military action took place. Nevethless, Ukraine too was affected by the spectacular career of the warlike French Emperor whose armies relentlessly tramped from one end of Europe to the other. Ukrainian history and Ukrainian disstisfaction with Russia were noted in Paris, a project was drawn up for the establishment of a Ukarinian Cos sack state dependent upon France, the Cossack idea was briefly rejuvenated in Russian Ukraine, and many thousands of Ukrainian soldiers participated in the great campaign which finally ended Napoleon’s imperial adventure. The “Napoleon and Ukraine” theme is thus not nearly so strange as it first sounds to the uninitiated ear. About the author: Thomas M. Prymak is Resident Fellow, Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies at the University of Toronto. His most recent book Mykola Kostomarov: A Biography was published by the University of Toronto Press in 1996. ’’НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ЛЮТИЙ 1997 17
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