Khvastiv

Fastiv lies southwest of Kyiv on the Unava River. First mentioned in 1390, it received Magdeburg rights in 1601 and became a centre of Cossack settlement on the Right Bank. In the late seventeenth century Colonel Semen Palii made it the seat of the Fastiv regiment, which drew settlers back to a region devastated by war. In 1702 Palii and other Cossack leaders rose against Polish rule; the revolt spread across the Kyiv and Bratslav lands.