Zhytomyr oblast
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Zhytomyr. There are many legends about the origin of the city name.
One of them tells that in
884 the Novgorodian Prince Oleh took prisoners and later killed Kyivan Princes
Askold and Dir. Their
councilor Zhytomyr fled with his bodyguards to Drevlianian forests where founded
a castle with the
settlement that later got his name.
In the latter half of the 10th c. Zhytomyr became part of Kyivan Rus, and in
1240 the city was razed
to the ground by the Mongol-Tatar hordes. In 1362 Zhytomyr went to the
Lithuanian Principality
and turned into one of its major cities. In the mid-18th c., Zhytomyr was the
centre of Catholicism
in Right-Bank Ukraine. At that time the cathedral was built (1746) and a three-tier
bell tower,
monuments of late Renaissance architecture. Among the architectural monuments of
the 19th c. >>>>
Oblast farmsteads
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Zolota Sova | ||
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