PEREYASLAV. 



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the plough of some saint or hero. In this district human remains are still every- 

 where turned up, and hundreds of tumuli surmount the heights overlooking the 



Fig 158. — Pekeyaslav. 

 Scale 1 : 200,000. 



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Hos valley, all recalling the days when this was the great battle-field between 

 Russians, Kumans, Tatars, and Poles. 



On the east side of the Dnieper the river Trubej waters the government of 

 Poltava, also one of the historic regions of Little Russia. Pereyaslar, at the 

 junction of the Trubej and Alta, is said to have been founded by St. Vladimir on 

 the spot where he overthrew the Pecheneghes. During the later Cossack wars it 



