The map was compiled in the 17th century by the French cartographer Guillaume Sanson. On it, Ukraine is designated as the “land of the Cossacks,” and Crimea as a separate state called the Crimean Khanate.
Ukraine is marked on a French map from the time of Louis XIV, although the President of Russia and the head of the Constitutional Court argued otherwise. A snapshot of the map is published on the website of the digital library of the National Library of France and its partners Gallica.
The map was created by cartographer Guillaume Sanson in the 17th century.
If you look at her picture, you can see that the lands that are part of modern Ukraine are designated there as Ukraine pays des cosaques (Ukraine is the land of the Cossacks – ed.). At that time it was part of the Commonwealth.
Moreover, the cartographer designated Crimea, annexed by the Russian Federation in 2014, as a separate state – the Crimean Khanate, which, in alliance with the Ottoman Empire, fought against the Russian kingdom.
And the area where Emperor Peter I will erect Petersburg – the city in which Vladimir Putin was born – is designated as Ingria and belongs to Sweden.
Map created by the French cartographer Guillaume Sanson in the 17th century
Recall that on May 23, Vladimir Putin launched a new fake about Ukraine. The Russian President believes that before the creation of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainian SSR) in 1919, Ukrainians never had their own state. Putin also insisted that the territory of modern Ukraine at one time was part of the Commonwealth, and then the population of this territory allegedly “asked to be part of the Muscovite kingdom.”
In addition, on December 21, 2021, Vladimir Putin said at a press conference that Ukraine was created by the Soviet statesman Vladimir Lenin. According to the President of the Russian Federation, for this (creation of Ukraine), the Bolsheviks used “primordially Russian lands.”
