✦ FIELDNOTES / UKRAINE
THE COSSACK HETMANATE c. 1700

Wax &
Authority

At the chancellor’s desk, a small impression carried the authority of the Hetmanate.

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CURATOR’S NOTE

The seal of office

The General Military Chancellery prepared decrees, charters and land grants and kept the archives of the Hetmanate. Its general chancellor oversaw correspondence and guarded the state seal.

The Great Seal adapted an older Zaporozhian emblem of an armed Cossack. In the Hetmanate design, a spear stood before the musketeer. Look for both weapons in the wax impression.

The desk, document, die, simplified emblem and direct-to-paper demonstration are interpretive. The outer inscription uses modern Ukrainian lettering. The exhibit combines historically grounded motifs with a fictional workspace and document.
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