the main builder of the ideological foundations of this empire was the ukrainian philosopher feofan prokopovych , who actually reminded peter i in 1821 to declare russia an empire and himself emperor and er, that is, those concepts that feofan prokopovich prepared for mazepa at one time and described in the poem volodymyr, where he wrote, addressing mazepa, turning himself into princes, volodymyr is told that the hetmanship as ukrainian modern state is a direct he transferred the heir of russia and the hetman, the heir of the great princes of kyiv, after he moved to st. petersburg in 1816, not believing in the possibilities of the hetmanship and the russian empire. thinking in these categories was actually entered from the ukrainian side, which most of those political concepts on the basis of which russia developed in the 18th century , the ukrainian influence was simply huge , ideological, suffice it to say that it actually gave the idea of the most powerful attachment of the church to the local government again, the same feofan prokopovych, the idea of creating a synod and state managemen