Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky

Located on the banks of the Trubezh and Alta rivers.

According to archaeological data, the first settlement appears here in the late 10th century. In the earliest fortifications of the Pereyaslavsky detinets , structures of adobe bricks were recorded, which is typical for this time.

Pereyaslav (Pereyaslavl, or Pereyaslavl-Russian) was first mentioned in 907 in Oleg’s agreement with Byzantium, which, apparently, is a late insertion, since the city did not exist at the beginning of the 10th century. The name of the city means "adopted the glory." The Tale of Bygone Years tells us that in 992 Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich founded a city by the ford across the Trubezh River, where his army defeated the Pechenegs . The victory was brought by the leather man , who defeated the famous Pecheneg bogatyr in a duel and thereby “lost his glory”. The Nikon Chronicle under 1001 (6509) states that the skinny name was Jan Usmoshvets , a comrade-in-arms of the epic hero Alyosha Popovich . Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich laid here a large fortress to protect the southern borders of Russia from the steppe nomads.

Sometimes suggest , that from the 990s in Pereyaslavl for some time there was a residence of Orthodox metropolitans , until the St. Sophia Cathedral founded in 1037 was built in Kiev . According to the Nikon Chronicle : "lively there are many metropolitans of Kiev and all Russia, and bishops are delivered there".

Since the middle of the XI century, the city has been the capital of the Pereyaslavl principality , which played a crucial role in protecting Russia from the Pechenegs , and later Polovtsy . The two-chamber stone building with slate floors inlaid with mosaics, cubes of smalt from wall mosaics, fragments of ceramic water pipes and the complete absence of fresco paintings, identified in Pereyaslavl-19 Hmelny, is identified with the annalistic bathhouse structure of the Episcopal Palace, mentioned under 1089 (1090). year ^[2] . Near the Episcopal Palace in Pereyaslavsky Detinets was located the Cathedral of St. Michael (1090), one of the largest in Russia.

In 1239, Pereyaslavl was destroyed by the Mongol-Tatars .

In 1654, Bogdan Khmelnitsky convened a large council of Cossacks in the city ( Pereyaslavskaya Rada ), in which, in the face of Tsarist Ambassador Vasily Buturlin, he took the oath of allegiance to the Russian Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and signed an agreement providing for the entry of the Zaporizhzhya Army as an autonomy into Russia . In 1661-1662, the city was unsuccessfully besieged by the son of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, who had changed Russia, Yuri .

In 1943, after being liberated from German troops, the city was renamed Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky .

In 2017, the city council voted to return the city to its former name (it is interesting that the local authorities tried to initiate such a decision in 2000, but then the representatives of the Communist Party of Ukraine blocked the initiative) ^[3] . On April 19, 2018, draft resolution No. 8307 on renaming Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky was submitted to the Verkhovna Rada ^[4] .

• Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky State Pedagogical University named after Grigory Skovoroda
• National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve "Pereyaslav"

Pereyaslav is declared a city-museum. In total there are 27 museums in the city. Sights:

• The Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of the Middle Naddnipryanshchina , in which the architecture and customs of residents from ancient times to the XIX century are presented in detail. Among other things, there is a collection of windmills of the XVII-XIX centuries.
• The remains of buildings X-XI centuries.
• Buildings of the XVI century: Church of St. St. Michael, Ascension Monastery .

Museums in Pereyaslav

• Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of the Middle Naddnipryanshchina (2 Letopisnaya St., tel .: +38 (04567) 5-29-36);
• G.S. Skovoroda Memorial Museum (52 Skovorody St., tel .: +38 (04567) 5-14-48);
• Museum of Tripoli Culture (Shevchenko St., 10 tel. (04567) 51675);
• Memorial Museum of the Classics of Jewish Literature Sholom Aleichem (2 Letopisnaya St., tel .: 52936)
• The Zapovit Museum of Taras Shevchenko (8 Shevchenko St., tel .: 54103, 54203);
• Archaeological Museum (Shevchenko St., 17, tel .: 51574);
• Museum-diorama “The Battle of the Dnieper in the area of ​​Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky in the autumn of 1943” (54 Skovorody St., tel .: 51879);
• Museum of Kobzar Art (St. B. Khmelnitsky, 20, tel .: 53641, 51552);
• Museum of Ukrainian Folk Clothing of the Middle Dnieper (Novokievskoye Shosse, 5, tel .: 51612);
• Museum of Architecture of Pereyaslav of the times of Kievan Rus (34 Moskovskaya St., tel .: 51612);
• Memorial Museum of the Architect V.I. Zabolotny (9 Mazepa St., tel .: 51552);
• Museum of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (2 Letopisnaya St., tel .: 52936);
• Museum of the History of Beekeeping (2 Letopisnaya St., tel .: 52936);
• Museum of the Ukrainian rushnyka (2 Letopisnaya St., tel .: 52936);
• Museum of the History of Ukrainian National Rites and Traditions (2 Letopisnaya St., tel .: 52936);
• Museum of Decorative and Applied Art (2 Letopisnaya St., tel .: 52936);
• Museum of cognition of the worldview and space exploration (2 Letopisnaya St., tel .: 52936);
• Museum of M.M. Benardos (2 Letopisnaya St., tel .: 52936);
• Bread Museum (2 Letopisnaya St., tel .: 52936);
• Land Transport Museum (2 Letopisnaya St., tel .: 52936);
• Museum-mail (2 Letopisnaya St., tel .: 52936);
• Museum of Medicinal Plants (2 Letopisnaya St., tel .: 52936);
• Museum of memory of Polessky district (2 Letopisnaya St., tel .: 52936).
• Museum of Cossack Glory (Shevchenko St., 10, tel. (04567) 51675)

• Shevchenko Taras Grigorievich - Ukrainian poet, prose writer, artist, ethnographer. Academician of the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts (1860).
• Khmelnitsky Bogdan Mikhailovich - hetman of the Zaporizhzhya Army, commander and statesman.
• Frying pan Grigory Savvich - Ukrainian wandering philosopher, poet, fabulist and teacher, who influenced the entire East Slavic culture.
• Pyotr Alekseevich Khrustalyov (real name is George Stepanovich Nosar) (1877-1918), the first chairman of the St. Petersburg Council of Workers' Deputies (October 14 - November 26, 1905).
• Sholom Aleichem (Yiddish שלום-עליכם, real name Solomon Naumovich (Sholom Nokhumovich) Rabinovich ; 1859 , Pereyaslav - 1916 , New York ) - a Jewish writer, playwright, one of the founders of modern Yiddish fiction, including children's.
• Berlyavsky-Nevelson, Louise is an American sculptor.
• Lazursky, Alexander Fedorovich - Russian doctor and psychologist. Teacher M. Ya. Basova and V.N. Myasishchev .
• Mirovich, Ivan Ivanovich - Colonel of the Pereyaslavsky regiment of the Zaporizhzhya Army.
• Vladimir Monomakh
• Sikorsky, Mikhail Ivanovich - General Director of the National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve "Pereyaslav"

• Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of the Middle Dnieper Region
• Creative Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky
• City Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky. Sights. Reference book .