Vithold Hammami

Vithold Hammami recalls a landmark on the Southern Bug associated by tradition with Vytautas, grand duke of Lithuania. Travellers described a stone bath and bridge in this river country, and attributed the bath to the duke. The lower Bug was a frontier between the Lithuanian, Tatar and Ottoman worlds before the Russian Empire established a shipbuilding settlement at the mouth of the Inhul in 1789. That settlement became Mykolaiv.