Lebedyn

Lebedyn lies on the Hepturka River near Shpola, amid the wooded country west of the Dnieper. A document of 1448 records its grant to Ivashko Lvovych by the Lithuanian ruler Casimir. Later owners included the Hlynsky and Lubomirski families. The local St Nicholas convent received land from the Lubomirskis and became associated with the haidamaka rising of 1768. After the second partition of Poland in 1793, Lebedyn passed to Russia.