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Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky
Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky - a small city on left shore of the Dniper river, city on the shores of the Trubezh and Alta rivers. Pereyaslav have the known its museum the histories of the ukrainian architecture.
The city first mentioned in the treaty signed by Kyivan Rus’ and Byzantium in 907 as one of the three largest cities in the Kyivan state. It was a fortress on the southern border and an important crafts and trading center. From the second half of the 12th century the city was the center of a large independent kingdom ruled by the princes Volodymyr Monomakh, Yuriy Dolhoruky, Volodymyr Hlibovych, and others. After the introduction of Christianity it became the base of the Pereyaslav eparchy. The city suffered extensive damage during the 13th-15th centuries. The Treaty of Pereyaslav, by which Ukraine was united as an equal partner with Russia, was signed here in 1654.
A collegiums was established in Pereyaslav in 1738. The philosopher H.Skovoroda taught here in 1753. The Ukrainian poet T.Shevchenko lived here in 1845 and 1859.
The known classicist of the jewish literature Sholom Aleyhem was born In the Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky. | |
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