COSSACK CHRONICLES
Cossack chronicles are an important documentary source that enables us to learn about the history of Ukraine. They differ from the chronicles of the Kyivan Rus epoch. Ancient Rus chronicles comprise articles written by different scholars and dated by different years. They acquired their final look under some editors' pens and were mostly collections of works. In contrast to those chronicles the Cossack authors'annals are comprehensive authors' works dated the 17—18th centuries.
The authors of the Cossack chronicles were representatives of the Cossack elders. Their works deserve to be called the most valuable historical sources of not for Ukraine, but also for Belarus, Moldova and Russia. The attention of the Cossack chronicles is focused on the events of Hotyn war of 1
