Печальная страница в нашей истории Sad page in our history

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"He who does not know history has no future. " Reconstructed wooden fortress over the river. Seim, where from 1669 to 1708 there was a fortified residence of three Ukrainian hetmans: D. Mnogohrishny, I. Samoylovich, I. Mazepa. The Baturin fortress consisted of outer city earth fortifications with a palisade and a citadel (castle), where the residence of the hetmans was located. There was a stone hetman's house and a wooden Church of the Resurrection, an entrance gate and three towers. In 1708, all the buildings of the Baturin fortress were completely destroyed during the punitive operation of the Russian troops under the command of A. Menshikov. In memory of the Baturin tragedy, during which almost the entire population of the city was destroyed (5-6.5 thousand military, 6-7.5 thousand civilians), in 2004 a memorial cross was erected on the site of the northeastern tower of the citadel. The observation deck of the gate tower offers the best panorama of the Seimas valley.