5. Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan, Ukrainae pars quae Kiovia Palatinatus Vulgo dicitur.
Amsterdam: Joan Blaeu, ca. 1659-1672. COLLBN Port 163 N 117
Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan (c.1600-'73), a French-Polish cartographer and engineer, served as artillery captain in the army of the Polish Crown. He was sent to Ukraine where he built and improved several fortresses. After the Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648-'54) Beauplan was instrumental in the founding of many settlements and colonies. A map in his Description d'Ukranie, made during the Russo-Polish War (1654-'67), delineates the borders of Ukraine and includes a cartouche depicting Cossack rule. Beauplan situates Ukraine between Muscovy and Transylvania and codifies Ukraine as an umbrella term to designate a territory inscribed by historical, ethnographic and geographical borders. Here you see one of the 'counties' of Ukraine, the Kyivan Palatinate.