page_title: Sviatoshyn
section_title: Early time
hierarchical_section_title: Sviatoshyn / History / Early time
caption_attribution_description: English: Zhyvopysna St., Sviatoshyn, Kiev, Ukraine
context_page_description: Sviatoshyn is a historical neighborhood and a suburb of Ukraine's capital Kiev that is located on the western edge of the city area, in an eponymous municipality.
  Previously it was a dacha village in a pine grove which was included into the Kiev city council area in 1919.
context_section_description: Before the Kievan Rus epoch it was a territory of Eastern Polans and approximately 10 kilometres to the west, on the left bank of the Irpin River  Drevlians' land began.
  At the time of Kievan Rus and  the Grand Duchy of Lithuania the land belonged to the Principality of Kiev.
  It is alleged that in the 12th century the owner of this land was the Prince of Chernigov Nikola Sviatosha (Sviatoslav), who donated it to the Kiev Pechersk Monastery. Until the beginning of the 17th century this area belonged to Kiev monasteries.
  The first mention of the area name Sviatoshyn was in 1619, when this land was a part of the Kiev Voivodeship of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Union of Lublin. At that time the king Sigismund III Vasa determined the metes and bounds of Kiev's burgesses land possession in his charter. In particular it was said that Kiev's citizens boundary went "through an oak grove to Sviatoshyn side".
  At the time of the Cossack Hetmanate, the present Sviatoshyn territory belonged to the Kiev Regiment.
  In the 1780s, at the time when this land was included into the Kiev Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, the Magdeburg rights of Kiev were revoked so Sviatoshyn area went to the state ownership.
  Until the end of the 19th century, that land had been mentioned like Sviatoshyn wood, grove or forest, and it was a part of the Bilychi volost of the Kiev Governorate. There were no allusions about any permanent human settlements in there at that time.
caption: Zhyvopysna Street, a former name - the 5th prosika (cutting glade)
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