“…Having travelled other five miles, over wild deserts and through extensive forests entirely destitute of water, in the course of which progress we had occasional glimpses of the city of Potiblia [Putyvl] from a great distance, we passed the extreme boundary of the Cossack territory, and came to the bank of the river called Sayimi … Continue reading Border between Muscovy and Ukraine in 1654 described by Syrian chronicler Paul of Aleppo