A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa

Name: A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa
Rating: 5.0

I, Hetman Ivan Mazepa have declared this beautiful country an independent state... and for this I've received an eternal curse, an anathema, from the one who raped my land the worst of all — from Moscow Tsar Peter I.

Not Rated History Drama

Starring: Bohdan Stupka, Liudmyla Yefymenko, Nikita Dzhigurda, Viacheslav Dovzhenko, Viktor Demertash

Writer: Yurii Illienko

Release Date:
November 14, 2003

Ratings:
5.0 / 10

Director:
Yurii Illienko

Companies:
Dovzhenko Film Studios

Overview

During an interesting era in the history of Eastern Europe when Russia, under Peter the Great, and Sweden, under King Charles XII, struggled for power, Ukraine was the pawn in the middle. In 1709, Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of Ukraine, which was part of the Russian Empire, signed a pact with the Swedish king promising to support Sweden in its war against Russia provided that Ukraine was given its independence.

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