Everything about Novgorod-severesk totally explained
Novhorod-Siversky (; ; Novgorod-Seversky) is a historic city in the
Chernihiv Oblast (
province) of
Ukraine. It is the
administrative center of the
Novhorod-Siversky Raion, and is situated on the bank of the
Desna River, 330 km from the capital,
Kiev, and 45 km south of the
Russian border. Current estimated population: 15,000.
History
The town was first chronicled in
1044. Since
1098 it's the capital of
Siverian Principality, which served as a buffer zone against incursions of the
Cumans (
Polovtsy) and other
steppe peoples. One of numerous campaigns of local princes against Cumans gave birth to the great monument of early
East Slavic literarure, the
Tale of Igor's Campaign.
After the town's
destruction by Mongols in
1239, it passed to the princes of
Bryansk and then to the
Grand Dukes of Lithuania. He was ruled by
Dymitr Korybut (Kaributas), son of
Algirdas.
Muscovy obtained the area following the
Battle of Vedrosha in
1503, but had to return it back to
Poland after the
Time of Troubles. The town finally passed to Russia as a result of the
Russo-Polish War (1654-1667). It was made a capital of a separate
namestnichestvo in 1782–97. Thereafter its importance steadily declined.
Architecture
The main point of interest in the town is the former residence of the
Chernihiv metropolitans, the monastery of the Saviour's Transfiguration. It features a ponderous
Neoclassical cathedral (1791–96, design by
Giacomo Quarenghi), seventeenth-century stone walls, and several ecclesiastic foundations, dating from the sixteenth century. Other landmarks include the
Cossack Baroque Assumption cathedral, a
triumphal arch (1787), and the wooden church of St. Nicholas (1760).
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