Bohorodytska Fortress, Shevchenko

Today earthworks near the modern village of Shevchenko, who are in the city of Dnepropetrovsk , looks calm and peaceful. In summer there quietly swaying in the wind dense grass and towering mounds of snow in the winter. Once there life boiled key.

By decree of Ivan Mazepa was built Bogoroditskaya fortress. For its construction was specifically "discharged from abroad" German architect William von Zalen. Nowadays historians disagree, but when it was built exactly. It is believed that it was in 1688. But what is certain is the fact that the strengthening appeared on the site of old Samara city. In the annals of this place often called "ancient Cossack village of Samaria."

Today interesting to walk to these places. You can imagine how the earth trembled from the stamping of horses troops Giray Khan Divleta. As passed here Mazepa. As he made ​​plans for the Protection of land, as signed decrees and wrote letters ...