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220 Α. Β. PERNALHistsova mentioned the discovery of a letter of Khmel'nyts'kyi in theCentral State Historical Archive at Kiev, in a collection of photocopiesgathered from Polish archives. 11However, the magnitude of the incompletenessof the Cossack leader's documents was revealed only byFrank E. Sysyn's publication of fifteen items: twelve letters by Khmel'-nyts'kyi to Adam Kysil (1649-1652), one letter to Jan Kazimierz(1652), as well as two manifestoes (1648, 1657). u The Soviet historianIurii Mytsyk reported in an article published in 1980 that he haduncovered twenty hitherto unknown documents, as well as more than170 new copies of already published documents. 13 He gives the datesand addressees of nineteen documents, but does not provide archivallocations. Of these documents, he published only one. Eight of thedocuments he mentions were in fact published by Frank E. Sysyn. 14So, in fact, Mytsyk appears to have found eleven new Khmel'nyts'kyidocuments, although confirmation must await their publication.(2) The heading of the MS 1657 copy — "Species quasi listu od Chmielnickiegodo KJM" — should have led the author to conclude that the letter is an obviousforgery. Also, it is impossible to vouch for the letter's authenticity after reading thetwo opening sentences.(3) The full text of the letter can be found in Księga pamiętnicza, no. 237,pp. 637-40, and in Dokumenty, no. 6, pp. 631-32; however, in both cases it isdated one year later, in 1651. The editors of these two documentary collectionsgive convincing reasons for their views that the letter has been fabricated. Why didthe author pass over these without comment?(4) Czçscik's argument for authenticity based on textual similarities betweenthis letter and the instruction of Khmel'nyts'kyi is incomprehensible. What are thesimilar passages? Moreover, why does Częścik cite the instruction from MS SteinwehrIII (Biblioteka Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Wroclaw)? The text of theinstruction has been published not only in Arkhiv Iugo-Zapadnoi Rossii, izdavaemyikommissieiu dlia razbora drevnikh aktov, sostoiashchei pri Kievskom,Podol'skom i Volynskom General-Gubernatore, pt. 3, vol. 4 (Kiev, 1914), no. 153,362-65; but also in Dokumenty, no. 87, pp. 151-52.For additional details about this monograph, see Frank E. Sysyn's review inHarvard Ukrainian Studies 5, no. 1 (March 1981): 122-24.11L. Z. Histsova, "Dokumenty TsDIA URSR pro vyzvol'nu viinu ukrains'kohonarodu 1648-1654 rr. ta vozz"iednannia Ukrainy z Rosiieiu," Arkhivy Ukrainy,1979, no. 3, p. 46.12Frank E. Sysyn, "Documents of Bohdan Xmel'nyc'kyj," Harvard UkrainianStudies 2, no. 4 (December 1978): 500-524.13Iu. A. Mytsyk, "Novye dokumenty В. Khmel'nytskogo ob antifeodal'noibor'be narodnykh mass na Ukraine і sotsial'noi politike getmanskoi administratsiiν period osvoboditel'noi voiny ukrainskogo naroda 1648-1654 gg.," in Aktual'nyeproblemy agrarnoi istorii Ukrainy (Dnipropetrovs'k, 1980), pp. 175-85, especiallyp. 176.14Sysyn, "Documents of Bohdan Xmel'nyc'kyj," docs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 14.