Русский берег
Сергей Плохий называет русский (руський) берег Днепра словом Russian, а он назывался русским задолго до прихода туда Московской власти.
Thus the history of the Rus nation, the Cossack estate, and the Little Russian noble stratum are linked together in a single narrative that covers some two hundred years. In
geographic terms, the focus of that narrative switches from the history of the Rus lands, defined as what are now Ukraine and Belarus, to the history of the Cossack Host and, later, the Hetmanate, first on both banks of the Dnieper and eventually on its left, Russian, bank (Plokhy, Serhii. The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires, Cambridge, 2012.S.154)
Thus the history of the Rus nation, the Cossack estate, and the Little Russian noble stratum are linked together in a single narrative that covers some two hundred years. In
geographic terms, the focus of that narrative switches from the history of the Rus lands, defined as what are now Ukraine and Belarus, to the history of the Cossack Host and, later, the Hetmanate, first on both banks of the Dnieper and eventually on its left, Russian, bank (Plokhy, Serhii. The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires, Cambridge, 2012.S.154)