bogdan sent to the main candidate jan casimir, promising support and offering to recognize his cossacks. in return, khmelnitsky stopped hostilities, but in parallel with cunning maneuvers, he constantly sent letters to tsar alexei in moscow, begging him to accept little russia under the high hand of the white tsar. now there was no time for that in moscow, but the thought settled in the tsar’s head. the cossacks won the battle at the gathering, but khan demanded that khmelnitsky make peace with the king, because khan was brought at night, several barrels of polish gold. khmelnitsky concluded the sborov agreement, but the people found the poles and were not allowed to return to the estate. then seim decided to restore the war, because the ukrainians do not keep treaties. a year later, in 1650, the war resumed. khmelnitsky again. a year and a half later they were collected not in kiev, in pereyaslav. in 1653, khmelnytsky resumed the war again together with the tatars, and ukraine, devastated and plague-stricken, was dying. part of the people left the russian border. moscow decided that it