ЗБРОЯРСЬКА СПРАВА ЛІВОБЕРЕЖНОЇ УКРАЇНИ КІНЦЯ XVII – ПОЧАТКУ XVIII СТОЛІТЬ

Abstract

None of the sides of a productive culture of a society so reflects the general state of that society and the level of its development as the evolution of weapons. For centuries, it has been the development of arms that has been one of the main drivers of state development. The strength, power, security and territorial integrity of the country are based on its defense capability. The beginning of the revolution of the Ukrainian people in the middle of the seventeenth century under the leadership of Bohdan Khmelnitsky stimulated the development of military affairs in the state, and the ideological and political climate and Moscow expansion forced the hetmans of Ukraine Demyan Ignatovich, Ivan Samoilovych and Ivan Mazepov to become state. Since the history of production is the history of society, exploring the various stages of the development of craft is an extremely important matter. Historical study of craft centers in the territory of the Hetmanate in the XVII-XVIII centuries. was started in the XIX century. A. Shafonsky, M. Domontovich, O. Lazarevsky, V. Modzalevsky and O. Rusov. In the twentieth century. The craft trades of that period were studied by researchers O. Kompan, V. Bondarchyk, P. Fedorenko and others. Among the modern scientists on this subject, the intelligence of D. Toichkin, S. Malchenko V. Vechersky, Y. Redko, V. Sergiychuk deserve attention, which to some extent reveal the issues of the organization of the work of masters-gunsmiths, their cells in the territory of the Left-Bank Ukraine of that period. Many valuable material for the study of the development and organization of weapons crafts provide accounting sources and administrative documentation of the local government and the hetman administration, descriptions of the hetman's property. The article deals with the weapons handicrafts of the inhabitants of the Left-Bank Ukraine. The author makes attempts to locate gunpoint centers, to disclose the economic aspects of the activities of gunsmiths, and to recreate the specifics of their work.