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Encyclopedia Britannica



POLTAVA

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 14 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PIG-POL
POLTAVA , a town of
Russia
 ,
capital
  of the government of the same name, on the right bank of the Vorskla, 88 m. by rail W.S.W. of Kharkov. Pop. 53,060. The town is built on a
plateau
  which descends by steep slopes on nearly every side. Several suburbs, inhabited by Cossacks, whose houses are buried amid gardens, and a German colony, surround the town. The oldest buildings are a monastery, erected in 165o, and a wooden
church
  visited by Peter the
Great
  after the battle of Poltava. There are a military school for cadets, a theological
seminary
  and two girls' colleges; also flour-mills, tobacco works and a tannery.
Poltava is mentioned in Russian annals in 1174, under the name of Ltava, but does not again appear in history until 1430, when, together with Glinsk, it was given by Gedimin, prince of Lithuania, to the Tatar prince Leksada. Under the Cossack
chief
 , Bogdan Chmielnicki, it was the
chief
  town of the Poltava "
regiment
 ." Peter the
Great
  of
Russia
  defeated Charles XII. of Sweden in the immediate neighbourhood on the 27th of June 1709, and the victory is commemorated by a column over 50 ft. in height.


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