Opishnya

Opishnia lies on the Vorskla and is known for its potters, who worked the local clay into vessels and decorative wares. It was also famed for plums, preserved in brine or dried and sent to markets beyond the town. From 1648 it was a Cossack company centre, passing between the Hadiach, Poltava and Zinkiv regiments as the Hetmanate's administration changed. During the Great Northern War Charles XII briefly made his headquarters here in 1709. The Poshyvailo family of potters began its long tradition in the second half of the eighteenth century.