Reformation of the state government оf Ukraine-Hetmanate in 1734-1750

Abstract

In the conditions of formation of state-legal institutes of Ukraine, interest in the formation and development of the national state of the Ukrainian people in the XVII century is steadily growing. After all, it is an objective historical connection between the state-legal phenomena of Ukraine, which exist more than three centuries. Governing Council of the Hetman Office, both by name and by content, was a successful attempt by the Russian tsar to incorporate Ukraine into the Hetmanate. During the state reforms, the PSU implemented a number of measures planned by the Government of the Russian Empire which were aimed at establish control over central and local authorities, unification of Ukrainian case-law and legal proceedings in accordance with all-Russian models. In the course of being established as a temporary body that would worked before the election of a new hetman, the CCP, in its turn, initiated measures of an incorporation character. In particular, the PSG took over the powers of the Hetman and the administrative part of the General Military Office, the transformation of the HVC into a technical institution, the subordination of the General Chambers of Commerce, the regular reports of the HSC to the GPU and the Senat's, and the appointment of three Great Russian members to the General Military Tribunal. The activities of the CCU promoted the distribution of the clerical norms and traditions of the Russian Empire among the state bodies of the Hetmanate. This process was characterized by a purposeful policy of the imperial administration to engagement the Hetmanate's state bodies in the imperial state mechanism. The primary measures of the Russian government in the Hetmanate had changed in the financial sphere, in view of the inevitable war with Turkey. Thus, the functioning of the SSU was characterized by a complex of inkorporatsionnyh by nature, measures aimed at subordination of the Supreme state bodies of the Hetmanate to imperial power structures and the final inclusion of Ukraine into the Russian Empire.