Clarification of the historiographical term "Hetmanshchyna" ,"Hetmanate" and derivatives of these scholarly terms, which is falsely or erroneously used as the name of a faction or state...
In the hierarchical structure of the historical institution and organs of the state imperial power of Russia in the XVII-XVIII centuries, it looked as follows .
Hetmanshchyna is the historiographical name for a part of the Cossack lands on the territory of present-day Ukraine, as well as, partially, Russia (Starodubye), Belarus (Loiev and eastern part of Belarusian Polessye) and Moldova (northern part of Transnistria), which in different historical periods were under the authority of the Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host.
Historiography in the narrow sense of the word is a collection of historical works devoted to a certain topic or historical era (for example, the historiography of the Crusades), or a set of historical works, which have internal unity in ideological, linguistic or national terms (for example, Marxist, English or French historiography).
This is the historiographical name of a part of the Cossack lands on the territory of modern Ukraine in the 18th century. In 1782, during the administrative reform, the general regulation on the provinces of the Russian Empire of 1781 came into force, as a result of which the hundred-regimental administrative structure was abolished.
The Malorossiye prikaz or Prikaz Malaya Rossiya is a central state institution. It was created in 1662 in Moscow to govern the territories of the Left Bank of Ukraine (Gluhov, Kiev, Nizhyn, Nemirov, Novhorod-Siversky, Pereyaslav, Pogar, Pochep, Romny, Starodub, Chernihiv, Chigirin).
It was subordinated to the Ambassador's Office, had its own office and staff. In 1662-1670 it was headed by Boyar P. M. Saltykov, dumny nobleman A. S. Matveev; from February 22, 1671 it was the head of the Ambassador's Prikaz (office).
MaloRossiye Prikaz (ukaz) controlled internal and foreign political activity of hetmans, controlled intelligence and counterintelligence, material support of the troops, construction of fortresses on the territory of Little Russia, the movement of foreigners and residents of Little Russia, and prisoners. Through the Order of the Little Russia, it provided funding for the Zaporozhian Army and the Orthodox clergy.
The Ambassador's Prikaz (office) was a central governmental institution (prikaz) in Russia in 1549-1720 which was in charge of relations with foreign countries, the repayment and exchange of prisoners, administered a number of territories in the southeast of the country and certain categories of military men and so on.
Sofronenko K. A. Malorossiisky prikaz (Small Russian Prikaz) of the Russian state in the second half of the XVII - early XVIII centuries. - М., 1960.
Chistyakova E. V. Malorossiiskiy prikaz (edict) // SIE. М., 1965. Т. 8.