Desnyanskyi Horodok

Horodets stood near Kyiv on an old channel of the Desna, among the river's low-lying meadows. Chronicles associate it with the peace made by Yaroslav the Wise and his brother Mstyslav in 1026 and with a princely meeting in 1097. Burned by the Cumans in 1135, it later became a country residence of Kyiv's princes. In the fifteenth century Prince Simeon Olelkovych built a wooden castle here.