Putyvl

Putyvl stands in the Seim River country of Severia. First mentioned in 1146, it was a fortified town contested by the principalities of Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi. Lithuania took it in the fourteenth century, and it passed to Muscovy after the Battle of Vedrosha in 1500. During the Time of Troubles, Putyvl briefly served the forces of False Dmitry I and became a centre of Ivan Bolotnikov's uprising. The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth occupied it from 1607 to 1619. The Movchanskyi Monastery reflects the town's religious life: its cathedral was begun in the 1590s, and much of the complex dates from the seventeenth century. The surviving fortifications and churches recall a frontier town repeatedly drawn into wider political conflict.