LEGAL ASPECTS OF MALOROSSIYA’S 1654 REUNION WITH THE RUSSIAN STATE
The article explores integration processes relating to Malorossiya’s reunion with Russia. The author sums up the outcomes of Pereyaslav Council’s 1654 treaty. Thus, Left-Bank Ukraine obtained broad autonomy within the Tsardom of Muscovy, with its own Cossack administration. Headed by an elective hetman and armed with the Zaporizhian Host, Left-Bank Ukraine had an original legal system under a sovereign rule of the Russian tsar.