Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents viii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Sources and Transliteration xi
5. Map xiii
6. Introduction: The Ukrainian Hetmanate in Mazepa’s Time 3
7. Ivan Mazepa and Ivan Samoilovych 13
8. Ivan Mazepa, Vasilii Golitsyn, and the Naryshkins 50
9. Mazepa’s Domestic Policy 81
10. Mazepa and the Foreign Policy of Peter the Great 123
11. Mazepa and Right Bank Ukraine 139
12. The Cossack Elite of Mazepa’s Time 182
13. Mazepa’s Baroque 198
14. Mazepa and “the Birds of Peter’s Nest” 216
15. A Sick Old Man 246
16. The Reforms of 1707 272
17. The Tragedy of Choice 294
18. Notes 327
19. Index 395