Romodanovsky Way [1] , Romodan - the ancient trade route ( road , Sakma ), which passed through Left-Bank Ukraine from north to south through Romny , Lokhvitsa , Lubny , Kremenchug ; part of the way from Central Russia to the south, to the Crimean lands.
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History
In ancient Russia, there were many ways of communication , but the Russian people preferred to use the waterways , rather than land (road), along which all kinds of goods were brought to Russia.
After the Tatar-Mongol invasion of Russia, the southern Russian lands between the Crimea and Oka depopulated and turned into the Wild Steppe, in Russian - the Wild Fields, the Wild Field . In the XIV-XVIII centuries, from the Crimean Khanate , hordes of Crimean Tatars, Nogai and Cherkasy regularly passed through the Wild Field to the Russian state . So in the Wild Fields appeared Sakmas ( shlyah ) - trampled by people and horses, unpaved roads.
Prior to the construction of the railways in the 1860–80s, the Romodanovsky Path was one of the most important paths along which Chumakov of the Left Bank went to Crimea for salt and fish; in the 19th century, it was also used to run cattle groups from Russia to the central provinces of Russia.
The origin of the name is unknown. According to the legend, its name came from the name of voevoda G. G. Romodanovsky , who in 1674 led Moscow troops along this path against the Polish hetman of Right-Bank Ukraine P. Doroshenko .
Fine Art Image
One of the three panels created by painter Sergei Vasilkovsky for the meeting room of the Poltava Zemstvo depicts the Chumatsky Romodanovsky Way:
... high, high sky with gentle transparent clouds, which Vasilkovsky painted like none of his contemporaries. Smoky quivering trees stand along the road, as if blessing and calling Chumakov on a long journey.
- The article “The Trembling Lights of Sad Villages”, the newspaper “The Mirror of the Week” for November 14, 1998 ( auth. - D. Gorbachov, P. Utevskaya ) [2]
Notes
- ↑ Shlyakh // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extra). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- ↑ The quivering lights of sad villages . The Mirror of the Week (November 14, 1998). The appeal date is September 22, 2012. Archived September 22, 2012.
Literature
- DI Bagaley, "Essays from the history of the colonization of the steppe margin of the Moscow State." - M .: Publishing of the Imperial Society of Russian History and Antiquities at Moscow University, 1887.
- Tiles // Encyclopedic dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extra). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Encyclopedia of Ukraine / V. Kubiyovich . - Paris; New York: Molodev Life, 1954-1989. (in Ukrainian)