In the city there were significant stocks of provisions, weapons, there was also a garrison of Mazepa's associate Dmitry Chechel.
In October 1708, Hetman Mazepa, who, together with the Zaporozhye Cossacks,
went over to the side of the Swedes, addressed Charles 12.
Guess about the face depicted in this portrait was made in the 19th century,
when it was called Mazepa, Skoropadsky, or the names of other Ukrainian generals.