Note 59 — Chapter III · THE AUTONOMOUS CENTER IN POLAND AT ITS ZENITH (1501-1648)
Israel Friedlaender translation
[See pp. 29 et seq. Kiev was captured by the Lithuanians in 1320, and remained, through the union of Lithuania and Poland, a part of the Polish Empire until 1654, when, together with the province of Little Russia, it was ceded to Muscovy.]