The President and Fellows of Harvard College The Slap, the Feral Child, and the Steed: Pasek Settles Accounts with Mazepa Author(s): ROMAN KOROPECKYJ Source: Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Vol. 14, No. 3/4 (December 1990), pp. 415-426 Published by: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41036396 Accessed: 06-09-2016 21:32 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, The President and Fellows of Harvard College are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Harvard Ukrainian Studies This content downloaded from 128.97.156.104 on Tue, 06 Sep 2016 21:32:24 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms The Slap, the Feral Child, and the Steed: Pasek Settles Accounts with Mazepa ROMAN KOROPECKYJ In 1661, on his way from an army encampment in Kielce to Belorussia, Jan Chryzostom Pasek, a petty gentryman in the army of the then wojewoda of Ruthenia Stefan Czarniecki, encountered Jan (Ivan) Mazepa, "an ennobled Cossack" and a trusted page (pokojowy) at the court of King Jan Kazimierz.1 The meeting was not auspicious. Believing that Pasek was relaying secret letters from a confederation (zwiqzek) formed in Kielce by soldiers demanding back pay to supporters in Belorussia, Mazepa quickly rode to the king in Hrodna (Grodno) and mistakenly informed on the unsuspecting Pasek.