Анотація:
The purpose of the publication is to introduce into scientific circulation documents that cover the
claim and the course of the court case of the cossack Fedor Proskurnenko (Proskurnya) from Pokoshichi of
the Ponornytsia squadron of the Chernihiv regiment against fellow villagers Karp Vlasenko and Pylyp
Fedosenko for illegally appropriated honey trees and for bullying and humiliation. The research methodology
is based on general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis. L. Z. Gistsova’s “Methodical recommendations
on preparation for the publication of the Kosh Archive of the New Zaporozhian Sich” was used
in the preparation of documents for printing. The scientific novelty is that for the first time the documents
of the mentioned court case, which are stored in the Narodowa Library (Poland, Warsaw), were introduced
into scientific circulation, their informative potential was analyzed and commented on. Conclusions.
The published documents significantly expand the understanding of the judiciary of the Ukrainian state of
the first third of the XVIII century, social communications, court records and document management, enrich
the biography of the government officer of the Chernihiv regiment, and revenge information about the
historical toponymy of the region.