Bohuslav

Bohuslav stands on the Ros, where the river runs through granite outcrops in the old frontier country south of Kyiv. Mentioned in 1195, the town was devastated by the Mongols and later rebuilt. In 1591 King Sigismund III encouraged settlement with tax exemptions, weekly markets and annual fairs; in 1620 he granted Magdeburg rights.

Bohuslav became part of the Cossack Hetmanate in 1648, returned to Poland after the truce of Andrusovo, and was destroyed again by Ottoman, Tatar and Cossack forces in 1678. From 1685 it was a base of the Right-Bank Cossack leader Samiilo Samus. After renewed conflict, Samus was arrested in 1712 and the regiment dissolved. Bohuslav later remained a Polish royal town until the second partition of Poland brought it under Russian rule in 1793.