Mazepa Oathbreaker, awarded the Order of Judas. Part of 2

A well-known phrase of Mazepa, uttered by him in the 1707 year: "Without extreme, last need, I will not change my loyalty to the royal majesty." He explained that the “extreme need” could be: “... until I see that royal majesty will not be able to protect not only Ukraine, but also the whole of its state from Swedish potency.”
In 1706, Russia suffered a series of political failures, the Swedes inflicted a crushing defeat on the Saxon army, and Peter's ally, the Saxon Elector, and the Polish king Augustus refused the Polish throne in favor of the supporter of the Swedes Leschinsky and severed the alliance with Russia. During this period, Mazepa, apparently, plotted the transition to the side of Charles XII and the formation from Ukraine of independent ownership under the rule of the Polish king.
In September, 1707, Mazepa received from the Polish king Leschinsky a letter from a supporter of the Swedes, in which he asked Mazepa to “start a business” when Swedish troops approached the borders of Little Russia. Thus, a year before the betrayal, Mazepa prepared the ground for moving to the side of the enemy, if he would win.
Shortly before, Mazepa, obsessed with envy and malice towards the national hero, Colonel Paley, decided to eliminate him, accusing him of colluding with Karl XII and the Poles. Peter I believed Mazepa, and Paley was demoted and exiled to Siberia.
Mazepa was the subject of a number of denunciations to Peter I, who spoke of his treason, but Mazepa enjoyed the confidence of the king, and he did not want to believe the denunciations, punished the scammers, and the king’s trust in the hetman only increased.
In August, 1707 of the Year was followed by a dangerous denunciation of Mazepa by the General Judge Kochubey. But the report was considered false. In January 1708, Kochubey sent another notice of Mazepa’s treason. Peter I found the denunciation again false, having entrusted the trial to the friends of the hetman, who tortured Kochubey and Colonel Iskra, after which they were beheaded.
Frightened by this denunciation, Mazepa led the negotiations with the Polish king and Charles XII, which ended in concluding secret treaties with them, with even greater vigor. Mazepa provided the forts for the winter apartments with fortified points, pledged to deliver supplies and win over the Zaporozhye and Don Cossacks to the side of KarlNNX, providing troops to 12 thousand sabers.
In the autumn of 1708, Peter 1 invited Mazepa to join the Russian troops with the Cossacks, Mazepa hesitated, referring to his diseases and troubles in Little Russia. Menshikov decided to visit Mazepa, fearing exposure, he with the hetman's treasury fled in October to Charles XII. With Mazepa, the Swedes transferred 1,5 order to thousands of Cossacks and supported the Baturin garrison, which Mazepa promised to give to the Swedes as winter apartments. Later, a part of the Zaporozhye army under the leadership of ataman Gordienko in the number of 3 to 7 thousand people joined him. Most of the Cossacks remained loyal to the Russian Tsar.
The result of Mazepa’s infidelity was the invasion of Swedes into Little Russia, where they entered into the provisions promised by Mazepa provisions, winter apartments and 50 thousands of Cossack troops.
The rest of Little Russia refused to support Mazepa, remained loyal to the Russian Tsar and began a people's war against the Swedes. Fearing further betrayals, Peter I gave the order to destroy the Zaporizhian Sich, which was done, with 156 atamans and Cossacks executed, Menshikov was ordered to take the well-fortified residence of the hetman - Baturin, where there were large supplies of provisions and artillery, promised by Mazepa to Charles XII. The fortress was taken in a few hours, and the garrison was destroyed.
In April, 1709, Mazepa entered into an agreement with Charles XII, which Ukraine is now trying to interpret as “signing the Ukrainian-Swedish alliance”, under the agreement Mazepa was given the title of prince for life, a number of cities were transferred to the Swedes, and the parties even shared the conquered Russia!
Seeing the lack of support for Mazepa among the Cossacks and the population, supporters began to leave him, taking advantage of the amnesty announced by Peter I.
Mazepa, abandoned by his colonels, again contrives betrayal and tries to offer Peter I to hand over to him Charles XII and his generals, but the king rejects this offer, since he no longer trusts Mazepa.
Betrayal of Mazepa, who enjoyed the unconditional trust and support of Peter I, forced the king to take harsh public measures to punish the traitor. Four royal decrees were issued: on depriving Mazepa of titles and ranks, on depriving him of the Order of Andrew the First-Called, on the establishment of the Order of Judas and in absentee execution of Mazepa, and the church betrayed him anathema.
We, the Great Sovereign, Tsar and Grand Duke Peter Alekseevich, all Great and Little and White Russia are autocrat ... we have always punished and will punish the ungrateful for treason and betrayal of Our Tsarist Majesty.
Among our subjects there was an ungrateful dog, a villain and an oath-breaker, the hetman of Little Russia and the troops of his royal majesty Zaporozhian Ivashka Mazepa, who had spread to the side of our worst enemy of the Swedish king Karl.
We, the Great Sovereign, with our command we excommunicate the traitor Mazepa from our blessing and decide to our nominal decrees:
- to cancel our complaint to Ivashka Mazepa on the Hetman’s Order of Little Russia and the Zaporozhian troops;
- deprive Mazepa of the rank of a real secret adviser to Our Majesty;
- confiscate all his property in the royal treasury.
Let all my subjects of punishment imposed by our Tsar Majesty on the traitor Ivashka Mazepa be a lesson of the imminence of punishment for swearing and cheating.
It is given in 12 on the day of November, in the summer of the birth of Christ 1708.
Decree on depriving Mazepa of the Order of St. Andrew.
We are the Great Sovereign, Tsar and Grand Duke Peter Alekseevich, the All-Great and Little and White Russia autocrat, indicated with his name, the Great Sovereign, with the order to deprive the thief and traitor Ivashka Mazepa of the title of the gentleman of the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called, who are awarded the most worthy subjects to “Vera and loyalty "to our Royal Majesty.
By his godless deeds, he disgraced the high title of such an honorable Order, lost his honor by betraying our opponent, Karl, and meanly ran into his arms.
He broke the oath given on the cross and the Gospel to me, the Great Emperor, and took the oath of allegiance to the Swedish king Charles. Let the punishment of heaven fall upon him!
Disgracing himself with dishonor, Ivashka Mazepa is not worthy to be on a par with the glorious sons of our patronymic. And therefore, we command the Christopher and traitor Mazepa to strip the title of cavalier of the Order of St. Andrew, break at the scaffold the certificate awarded to him to the noblest order, publicly remove his ribbon of the order from the noblest of those who have the name of martial martial arts, and forever exclude him from the list of the most generous from the white martial arts.
Let the eternal damnation hang over the perjurer and may our descendants always remember the treachery of the dog Mazepa. Damn you!
It is given in 12 on the day of November, in the summer of the birth of Christ 1708.
Decree on the establishment of the Order of Judah.
We are the Great Sovereign, Tsar and Grand Duke Peter Alekseevich, the All-Great and Little Russia and the White Russia autocrat, indicated the Great Sovereign with his own name, ordering to mark the despicable betrayal of the former Hetman of Little Russia and the troops of His Royal Majesty Ivashka Mazepa of Zaporozhye with the establishment of the Order of Judah.
Make the same hour a silver coin weighing ten pounds, and on it cut Judah on the aspen of the hanged man and at the bottom thirty silversmiths lying and with them a sack, and behind the inscription: "The damn son of a perishing Judas for the crush of the crush."
To that coin, make a two-pound chain and send this coin to the military campaign by drug mail immediately.
With this order, to award the dastardly traitor and perjurer Ivashka Mazepa, in the image and likeness of Judas for thirty silversmiths who betrayed his master.
It is given in 12 on the day of November, in the summer of the birth of Christ 1708.
Decree on the tradition of Mazepa's execution.
We, the Great Sovereign, Tsar and Grand Duke Peter Alekseevich, the All-Great and Little and White Russia, autocrat, indicated with our own, the Great Sovereign, the order to change the perjurer Ivashka Mazepa and deprive him of all ranks and ranks.
This oath-breaker, an ungrateful dog who killed the innocent souls of Kochubei and Iskra, instead of faithful service to Us, the Great Sovereign, committed evil not only against Our Tsarist Majesty, but also betrayed Faith to Christ, his people and his land, surrendering to the non-believer who had encroached on freedom ours This enemy of the Cross of Christ is subject to eternal damnation, like Judas, who betrayed Christ.
Behind gold and power this flattering villain has spread to the side of our enemy, let the eternal damnation be his reproach.
Therefore, we command a thief and a traitor to the former hetman of Little Russia and the troops of his royal majesty Zaporozhye Ivashka Mazepa for:
- violation of the oath of allegiance given on the cross and the Gospel to me, the Great Sovereign;
- Taking the oath of allegiance to the enemy of the land of the Russian Swedish King Charles;
- invitation and admission to the lands of Little Rus Swedes, guilty of the destruction of temples and the desecration of shrines;
- an attempt to overthrow the existing state system of Great and Little and White Russia
bring the death penalty by hanging.
For these sins in people's memory, this damned dog will forever remain Judah, for thirty silver coins who betrayed the Great Sovereign, the Cross of Christ and our faith. With his godless deeds, he himself deserved himself on his business, his place on the scaffold, and the punishment of heaven will be rewarded to him by the executioner.
It is given in 12 on the day of November, in the summer of the birth of Christ 1708.
In November 1708 of the year in Glukhov, in the presence of Peter I, the clergy, sergeant and Cossacks, Metropolitan of Kiev, the archbishops of Chernigov and Pereyaslavsky betrayed Mazepa anathema, and then the traitor’s absentee execution was launched in the central square. In advance, a doll was made, depicting Mazepa in full growth in hetman's vestments and with the ribbon of the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called over his shoulder, which was brought to the attention of the assembled.
Andrew's cavaliers Menshikov and Golovkin ascended the constructed scaffold, tore the patent issued to Mazepa for the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called and removed the St. Andrew's ribbon from the doll. Then the doll was thrown into the hands of the executioner, which he dragged along the squares and streets on a rope, and then hung up.
At the same time, the locum tenens of the Patriarchal Throne in Moscow proclaimed: “... a traitor to Mazepa, for the crime and treason to the great sovereign, be anathema!” The anathema is valid in the Orthodox Church until today.
The betrayal of Mazepa did not save the Swedes from defeat near Poltava in June 1709. Karl XII and Mazepa fled to Bender after the battle, where Mazepa died in September 1709.
The long memory of Mazepa has been preserved in folk songs, where the epithets “dog” and “damned” are usually used next to his name. Nevertheless, for the supporters of the Ukrainian "separatist" this traitor, traitor and perjurer was and remains an idol and a model of honor and dignity.
For all his long life, Mazepa, being only in the service of someone, betrayed and betrayed the Polish king, the right-bank and left-bank Cossacks, the Russian king and tried to betray the Swedish king, swore an oath to the Turkish sultan, the Russian king and the Swedish king. Mazepa did not win a single military victory and did not prove himself as a statesman anywhere, but in his cunning and double-mindedness he so often changed his oath that these betrayals became the meaning of his life.
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