The Ruin (Ukrainian history)

This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (July 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

The Ruin
Date 6 August 1657 – 16 May 1686 Location Ukraine Territorial changes Eternal Peace Treaty Partition of Ukraine between Poland–Lithuania, Russia and the Ottomans Left-bank Ukraine with Kyiv and the territories of the Zaporizhia came under Russian control Right-bank Ukraine first came under Polish control and later partially under Ottoman control
Belligerents
Right-bank Ukraine Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	Ottoman Ukraine (from 1669) Ottoman Empire (from 1669)	Left-bank Ukraine  Tsardom of Russia
Commanders and leaders
Right-bank hetmans: Pavlo Teteria Mykhailo Khanenko Yurii Khmelnytsky	Ottoman hetmans: Petro Doroshenko Yurii Khmelnytsky George Ducas	Left-bank hetmans: Ivan Briukhovetsky Demian Mnohohrishny Ivan Samoylovych

Part of a series on the
History of Ukraine
Topics Name Flag Coat of arms Historical regions Christianity Economic history Banking Rail transport Shipbuilding Technology Television Jewish history
Prehistory Cucuteni–Trypillia culture Yamnaya culture Catacomb culture Cimmeria Taurica Scythia Bosporan Kingdom Sarmatia Zarubintsy culture Chernyakhov culture Hunnic Empire
Early history Early East Slavs Rus' Khaganate Khazar Khaganate Kievan Rus' Cumania Principality of Kyiv Kingdom of Ruthenia Mongol invasion Golden Horde Grand Duchy of Lithuania Crimean Khanate
Early modern history Cossacks Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Kyiv Voivodeship Zaporozhian Host Zaporozhian Sich Khmelnytsky Uprising Cossack Hetmanate Left bank Right bank Russian Empire Sloboda Ukraine Danubian Sich Kuban Cossacks Little Russia Novorossiya Habsburg Empire Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Bukovina Carpathian Ruthenia
Modern history Ukraine during World War I Ukraine after the Revolution Ukrainian War of Independence Ukrainian People's Republic Makhnovshchina Ukrainian State Directorate of Ukraine West Ukrainian People's Republic Ukrainian SSR Soviet Union Communist Party of Ukraine Holodomor Ukraine in World War II Reichskommissariat Ukraine Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists Chernobyl disaster
Contemporary Post-Soviet transition in Ukraine Cassette Scandal Orange Revolution Russia–Ukraine gas disputes Euromaidan Russo-Ukrainian War Annexation of Crimea War in Donbas COVID-19 pandemic Russian invasion of Ukraine
Ukraine portal History portal
v t e

The Ruin (Ukrainian: Руїна, romanized: Ruyina) is a historical term introduced by the Cossack chronicle writer Samiilo Velychko (1670–1728) for the political situation in Ukrainian history during the second half of the 17th century.

The timeframe of the period varies among historians:

• Some historians such as Mykola Kostomarov define the period between 1663 and 1687, associating it with the three Moscow-appointed hetmans of Left-bank Ukraine (Briukhovetsky, Mnohohrishny and Samoylovych).
• Other historians interpret the period between 1660 and 1687 from the Chudniv Treaty that led to division among the Cossack community.
• Borys Krupnytsky considered the timeframe as 1657–1687, from the death of hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky in 1657, particularly the Pushkar-Barabash Mutiny, until the ascension of hetman Ivan Mazepa in 1687.

The period was characterised by continuous strife, civil war, and foreign intervention by neighbours of Ukraine. A Ukrainian saying of the time, "Від Богдана до Івана не було гетьмана" (From Bohdan to Ivan there was no hetman [in between]), accurately summarises the chaotic events of this period.