"Now divide yourselves, brother gentles! Let those who wish to go stand on the right, and those who wish to stay, on the left.

Where the majority of a kuren goes there its officers are to go: if the minority of a kuren goes over, it must be added to another kuren." Then they began to take up their positions, some to the right and some to the left.

Whither the majority of a kuren went thither the hetman went also; and the minority attached itself to another kuren.

It came out pretty even on both sides.

Those who wished to remain were nearly the whole of the Nezamaikovsky kuren, the entire Oumansky kuren, the entire Kanevsky kuren, and the larger half of the Popovitchsky, the Timoschevsky and the Steblikivsky kurens.