Lecture "Ukrainian Cossacks as a Knightly Community"

What connects the history of Dnipro and the Cossack communities? Who were the Cossacks, and was warfare really their only occupation? How can we speak about the Cossacks from today’s perspective?

We’ll explore these questions in the next lecture of the "Dnipro and Beyond" program with historian Oleh Repan, on July 1 at 18:30.

The lecture, titled "Ukrainian Cossacks as a Knightly Community", will touch on:

— where the Cossacks came from: were they runaway serfs or noblemen from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania?

— how they lived and what they did outside of warfare;

— whether they were truly rootless raiders without ideology;

— how the Cossacks influenced the formation of Dnipro, where to look for the city’s origins, and why Cossack heritage became a symbol of the region.

Oleh Repan is a historian, research fellow at the Museum of the History of Dnipro, associate professor at Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, and a major in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He specializes in the history of Dnipro in the 16th–18th centuries. His research interests include the history of the Left Bank and Zaporizhzhia Cossacks in the 18th century and local historical studies.

Free entrance with registration

The lecture series "Dnipro and Its Surroundings" was created in cooperation with POMIZH, a media outlet about Dnipro and its surroundings.