Distance to Kyiv: 85 km

It is a small town in the Kyiv area, being grown at the Dnepr steep slopes. It is a modest, quiet, divided in half by the small river of Leglich, it seems that it can not be praised by the ancient history - yet from tripol'skiy times.

The legends assert that some time here the monks Anthony and Feodosiy lived which later went to the court to found the Kyiev-Pecherskaya lavra monastery. To confirm this version really the two sources could with clear cold water, which carry the names of monks. And only an Ipat'evskaya chronicle is a document on which it is possible to refer as on a reliable source. It remembers a settlement under the name Ivan-city in 1151, where there was a fight for the Kyiv throne between Monomakhovichi and Ol'govichi. Ivan-city was destroyed by the Mongol-Tatar horde in 1241 and it is known history...

But a settlement did not die, survived, even got in 1506 from the hands of Polish king Sigizmund І the Magdeburg’s law and new name: Rzhischev. And in those times of Ivan-gorod the village was so (almost so - Vzhischev) named near fixed “Vzhische", researchers talk, meant a trade place in Old Slavyanian times. Here there was a trade actually: early in ХІХ century a local pier was one of most visible on Dnepr and was famous as a large trade base. And yet Rzhischev is a Cossack city: in 1654 it entered as hundred one to the Kanevskiy regiment.

 In Ukrainian history Rzhischev got twice. First time - in December, 1653, when here the preliminary meeting of Bogdan Khmel'nitskiy with the Moscow messengers at the head with boyar Buturlin took place. Second time - in the severe days of Second World War. In 1941 the whole month an Rzhischev ferriage was guarded by the motor- shooting division of troops of general Kirponos. And in September, 1943 a city was the right wing of Bukrinskiy bridgehead, which served as a distracting maneuver in an operation on liberation of Kyiv.

 A little settlement gave Ukraine a poetess Lina Kostenko, a writer Michael Shmushkevich, an artist Valentin Zadorozhniy, a rear-admiral of M. Petrenko.

Rzhischev is paradise for tourists. Among Dnepr fluxes, an islands and a steep slopes it is so good to have a rest from noisy city life. It is possible for fishing or swimming on a boat or water motor cycle. Would you like to have adrenalin? Welcome to an Island of Witches! Would you like to try Ukrainian authentic? For the city guests the ethnographic actions are conducted the whole year round - on Kupala, Easter, etc... If you wish something extraordinary, unusual, such, that exists only here? There is such thing here: there is a unique old Gusinivetskaya church on an island. In soviet years a temple was destroyed and... flooded. Where you would see such miracle - flooded church?

Little by little the rural green tourism gets up on feet, more exotic type of rest is being developed - it is an archaeological tourism, when if you wish, it is possible to take part in the most real excavations and by yourself it is possible to find Tripol'skie "souvenirs". There are museums of the Tripol'skoy culture and Honored artist of Ukraine Vladimir Sidoruk in Rzhischev.

 There are burial mounds and Cossack crosses, orthodox and catholic monasteries, Dnepr and forests, monument in the way of famous tripol'skogo "binoculars" before a city council... It is good here! Not for nothing 5 millenniums before, long before pharaohs, people chose for their place for living this area. Who knows, may be Rzhischev could once be famous in the world, how the Valley of pyramids did in Egypt?