Grand Principality of Rus' ( Ukrainian: Велике Князівство Руське,

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: Wielkie Księstwo Ruskie, Lithuanian: Didžioji Rusijos Kunigaikštystė), also known in historiography as Grand Principality of Ruthenia, was the project of the state as a member of the Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth in the territory of

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and

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. Its creation was proposed by

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Ivan Vyhovsky Ivan Vyhovsky (; ; date of birth unknown, died 1664), a Ukrainian military and political figure and statesman, served as hetman of the Zaporizhian Host and of the Cossack Hetmanate for three years (1657–1659) during the Russo-Polish War (1654 ...

with Yuri Nemyrych and Pavlo Teteria in September 1658 during the negotiations between the

Cossack Hetmanate The Cossack Hetmanate (; Cossack Hetmanate#Name, see other names), officially the Zaporozhian Host (; ), was a Ukrainian Cossacks, Cossack state. Its territory was located mostly in central Ukraine, as well as in parts of Belarus and southwest ...

and the Commonwealth. The project of the Duchy was approved in the first version of the

Treaty of Hadiach The Treaty of Hadiach (; ) was a treaty signed on 16 September 1658 in Hadiach (present-day Ukraine) between representatives of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ( representing Poland and representing Lithuania) and Zaporozhian Cossacks (repr ...

, but later, because of the strong resistance of Polish society, the idea of the ''Grand Principality of Rus'' was completely abandoned. The Cossacks were very disappointed with the final version of the treaty and

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began. Yuri Nemyrych, the alleged author of the ''Grand Principality of Rus'' project, was killed in a local fight in August 1659 and Vyhovsky lost his power in October 1659, thus the project did not become a reality.

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* Piotr Kroll, ''Od ugody hadziackiej do Cudnowa. Kozaczyzna między Rzecząpospolitą a Moskwą w latach 1658–1660'', Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2008.
Mariusz Robert Drozdowski (2015): Rzeczypospolita wobec idei odnowienia unii hadziackiej w latach 1660–1682
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