The Volhynian szlachta referred to the Thirty Years’ War, but the metaphor of «golden peace», so often quoted by their contemporaries, soon took on a new meaning: it came to signify the decade between 1638, when the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth successfully suppressed the Cossack revolts, and 1648, which marked the outbreak of the Cossack uprising. gdy tedy świata chrześciańskiego wszystkie symmetriae ardent bello, w samey tylko oyczyznie naszey złoty kwitnie pokóy.» 1 While all the Christian world symmetriae ardent bello, only in our sweet fatherland does golden peace flourish]. 2 Kyïv, (.)ġ The instructions of the Lutsk dietine for its delegates at the 1645 Diet open with a glorification of peace: «Miedzy Bozkiemi dobrodzieystwy pokóy iest naywyssze dobrodzieystwo.

3 Hrushevs’kyj M., Istorija Ukraïny-Rusy.

Staryts’koho ( v dvadtsjat’ p’jati rokovyny smerti ), in: idem, Uk (.)

1 Arkhiv Jugo-Zapadnoj Rossii, izdavaemyj Vremennoj komissiej dlja razbora drevnikh aktov [ further m (.).

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