<b>The Right-Bank Hetmanate on the eve of the polish-turkish war of 1672–1676 in the descriptions of the letters of dispatch of the Rzeczpospolita</b>

The purpose of the article is to bring into scientific circulation and publish hitherto unknown historical sources from Polish archival repositories (Krakow) relating to the events in the Right-Bank Hetmanate on the eve of the Polish-Turkish war of 1672–1676. Methodology. The study uses biographical and historical and logical methods of studying historical sources with the involvement of special methods of archaeology, source studies, documentary studies, archival studies and paleography. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the fact that it is the first to analyze and publish a number of documents of 1671–1672: the so-called letters of news and “news” (avis, information, etc.), which at that time played the role of newspapers. This article examines the letters of news (news, avis, information, relays, etc.) relating to the first year of the Polish-Turkish war of 1672–1676. These documents played the role of a kind of newspaper at the time and outnumbered printed ones in terms of their number and efficiency. They allow us to recreate quite accurately the picture of the first year of the war, the first half of 1672 (before the fall of Kamianets-Podilskyi), and the preparations for it, in which the Ottoman Empire’s vassals – the Crimean Khanate, Moldova, and Wallachia – took part, the difficult situation in the Right-Bank Hetmanate, which was forced to fight the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Moscow State, the Ottoman Empire, and the Crimean Khanate, which led to the emergence of various political groups and internecine struggles that deepened the so-called Ruin. The so-called Ruin. Additional light is shed on the military-political situation, especially in Podillia, and unknown facts about Hetmans Petro Doroshenko, Mykhailo Khanenko, and colonels (Ivan Sirko, Lysytsia, Kyiashko, etc.) are presented. It should be noted that, despite the undoubted positive aspects, the letters have certain drawbacks, which affected the degree of their reliability. First of all, this is the use of unreliable rumours, unverified second-hand information, although it was not always possible to verify the information received. Type of article: review and archaeographic.