Yaroslavka

Yaroslavka lies in the country east of the Dnieper, near the Basanka River. Remains of a settlement known as the Prince's Court recall occupation in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, when the lands around Chernihiv were divided among Rus' princes. In the age of the Cossack Hetmanate, Yaroslavka belonged to the Bobrovytsia company of the Kyiv Regiment and was held by the hetmans. The village thus connects an older princely landscape with the military and territorial institutions that governed left-bank Ukraine in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.