Mistse Zahybeli Kyyivsʹkoho Knyazya Svyatoslava Ihorevycha

This area feels magic.

A historical monument. The place offers beautiful views. The height of the rocks in these places reaches 30 meters! I recommend to visit!

The favorable energy of this place prompted me to paint this picture 😊 Sit here in the evening and you will understand!

In the spring of 972, the prince with the remnants of the army made the second and final attempt to break into Kiev. In The Tale of Past Years, Nestor the chronicler sparingly reports: “In the year 6480 (972), when spring came, Svyatoslav went to the thresholds. And Kurya, the prince of the Pechenegs, attacked him, and they killed Svyatoslav. ” According to legend, the Pechenegs, following their barbaric custom, cut off the chairman Svyatoslav, the skull was forged with gold and silver, making it a cup for wine. So died the glorious, brave prince of Kievan Rus Svyatoslav Igorevich. As we see, the chronicler did not give a definitive answer, where exactly on the thresholds the outstanding military and political figure of the ancient Russian state died. Therefore, for a long time, historians, local historians, have been trying to find out the question of where the prince died. It is no accident that the Zaporizhzhya and Dnepropetrovsk regions cannot share the mournful right to be considered the territory where the famous Kiev prince died heroically. Today, there are two attractions that remind posterity of the events of 972. One of them was installed in 1967 in the village of Nikolskoye-on-Dnieper, near the flooded threshold of Nenasityts, in the Dnipropetrovsk region. On the plate there is an inscription: "In 972, in the Dnieper rapids, in an unequal battle with the Pechenegs, the Russian prince-hero Knight Siatoslav Igorevich died." The second is a security sign - on the island of Khortytsya, on the Black Rock with the inscription: “Black Rock. The probable place of the death of Prince Svyatoslav in 972. " There are few historians, local historians who would argue that it was on the island of Khortitsa that Prince Svyatoslav died. But the basis for establishing the sights were not only annals, but also archaeological data. In 1928, during the hydraulic works in the construction area of ​​the Dnieper, five swords were found, which scientists dated to the X century. Experts expressed the opinion that it was here that some kind of tragedy took place: the death of a ship or a battle with a sad ending for the entire crew. At the beginning of the 19th century, near the Krariysky transport (a place slightly higher than the modern Dnieper), fishing raised a copper, with Greek inscription, kink from the bottom. There were Byzantine coins with the names of emperors Nicephorus Foki and John Tzimiskes, with whom Svyatoslav had political relations. In 1959, the world saw the world of Semyon Sklyarenko’s novel “Svyatoslav”. The writer depicted the last battle of the prince and his retainers in the north-eastern part of the island of Khortytsya, on the Black Rock. And so it happened that it was this version of the death of Svyatoslav on Khortitsa that became the most famous.

The chronicler did not give a definitive answer, where exactly on the thresholds the outstanding military and political figure of the old Russian state died. Therefore, for a long time, historians, local historians, have been trying to find out the question of where the prince died. It is no coincidence that the Zaporizhzhya and Dnepropetrovsk regions cannot share the mournful right to be considered the territory where the famous Kiev prince died heroically. Today, there are two attractions that remind posterity of the events of 972.