Archaeological Lecture: Dr. Volodymyr Mezentsev

Sunday, December 5, 2004 at 1:30 PM

The Washington DC branch of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, and the UVAN group, present a lecture by Dr. VOLODYMYR MEZENTSEV, visiting professor at the University of Toronto Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and co-director of the Canadian-Ukrainian archaeological expedition at Baturyn, on RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES AT BATURYN (in Ukrainian)

HOLY TRINITY (PARTICULAR) UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
16631 New Hampshire Avenue
Silver Spring, Maryland

The lecture will be accompanied by a slide show and video film.

Baturyn was the capital of the Ukrainian Cossack Hetman State under Ivan Mazepa. When in the summer of 1708 Mazepa allied himself with Charles XII of Sweden, Russian Tsar Peter I sent his general Prince Menshikov to capture Baturyn. Menshikov's forces sacked and burned the city to the ground.