Tatary

Of Mazepa, Voltaire wrote that he was "a courageous, enterprising man, tirelessly industrious although advanced in years," who under very difficult circumstances "remained faithful to his new ally," while Ukraine was a fertile land "located between Little Tatary [that is, the Crimea], Poland, and Muscovy," which

Park, "Accumulation of phenylpropanoids and correlated gene expression during the development of tatary buckwheat sprouts," Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, vol.

But after this long campaign --six years in fact-in a strange land, the winter of 1708-9 was exceptionally severe and Charles's army, stuck in the eastern borderlands of this still vast Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, lacked sufficient supplies and was beginning to dwindle in numbers for lack of new Swedish recruits; he therefore left the road to Moscow and turned south to Ukraine, a fertile land, as the French philosophe put it, "located between Little Tatary [that is, the Crimea], Poland, and Muscovy," where supplies and a potentially powerful ally, Prince Mazepa, awaited him.

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He later wrote about many historical events, as in Wojna domowa z Kozaki i Tatary (1681; "A Civil War with the Cossacks and Tatars"), an account of the Zaporozhian Cossacks' revolt, under the leadership of Bohdan Khmelnitsky, against Polish domination in the mid-17th century.