the meeting of representatives of the Ukrainian people which has made the decision on reunion of Ukraine with Russia. The item of river has been called by the hetman B. Khmelnytsky (See. Khmelnytskyi region) 8 on January (18) in Pereyaslavl (modern Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi).
I have finished the movement for reunion with Russia which has especially amplified during Liberating war of the Ukrainian and Belarusian people 1648 — 54. Making decision on reunion of Ukraine with Russia was promoted by proximity of language and culture of the Ukrainian and Russian people, a religion community, existence between them economic, political and cultural ties. Also features in a state system of Russia and policy of the Russian government for Ukraine were important. In Russia there were Cossack regions (on Don, Yaike) which didn't know a serfdom and used the known political autonomy. The Russian government granted a shelter to the Ukrainian peasants and Cossacks and lodged them as free people. In the territory, adjacent to Ukraine, the area has been formed of the Ukrainian immigrants and the Cossack register (Suburban Ukraine) is created. The peasantry of Ukraine hoped to ensure position of the free population under the power of Russia and to get rid of national oppression and religious prosecutions. Ukrainian the foreman and a shlyakhetstvo sought to fix the class privileges by means of tsarism and to turn into ruling class in Ukraine by providing a political autonomy within the Russian state.