Sherbiv

Sherbiv stood on the Rostavytsia in the lands southwest of Kyiv. A village of that name is recorded in 1471 and was badly damaged after the campaign of the Crimean khan Mengli Giray. In the late sixteenth century it came into the possession of the princely Ruzhynski family and was renamed Ruzhyn. The inhabitants of the district later took part in the Cossack and peasant uprisings that swept across right-bank Ukraine.