Yahotyn

Yahotyn arose in the sixteenth century among settlements on the left bank of the Dnieper. Its early inhabitants included Cossacks and peasants who moved into the region, and from 1648 to 1781 it was a company town of the Pereiaslav Regiment. Later it became an estate of Kyrylo Rozumovsky, the last hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate. He laid out a park and built a wooden palace, giving the town a noble residence as well as its older Cossack institutions. The estate later passed through his family to the Repnins.