In 1708, Tsar Peter the Great visited the city, trying to persuade the people of Barvinok not to fight against him, but despite this, the local Cossacks supported Mazepa and fought for independence.

The last colonel, Ivan Garadzha, poured lard over the skin of more than one Sloboda lord, which Kharkiv Governor Shcherbynin complained about to Potemkin.

Thus, in 1774, after the participation of Barvinkove residents in the Cossack uprising of Omelian Pugachev, Garadzha disarmed the punishers, and dipped their commander, Colonel Dolgorukyi, in a barrel of tar, rolled him in feathers, put him backwards on a stool, and sent him to the Izium regiment in this form.

Despite the decree of Catherine II on the eternal freedom of the Cossacks of Barvinkivska Stina, which did not exist, after the liquidation of the Zaporizhzhia Sich in 1775, a significant part of the residents of Barvinkove moved to the Kuban, where they founded their own village.

And after Catherine II visited the Cossack church in 1787 on her way from the Crimea, where women were forbidden to enter, they burned their shrine because the whore Katka had desecrated it.