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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Natasha, post: 2914258, member: 3724&quot;]Hi antidiem, sorry I missed the fourth one (hard to count up to four, ha!) The youngest brother was Khoriv. Fish means Kyiv is located on the Dnipro river. At that time there was a lot of fish there. As for spelling, Kiev is a Russian variant. In Ukrainian it is Kyiv which is closer by pronunciation to the name of Kiy. For the last twenty years there has been a campaign all over the world to change Kiev for Kyiv. Many countried did already.</p><p>Any Jewelry, nice to hear from you. Actually, it&#039;s not mythology, rather a legend which is based on historical reasearches. Kiy was a legendary prince. Still in Kyiv there is a hill named Shchekavytsya and a street (after the second brother), a street named Khoreva ( after the third brother) - both in the ancient part of the city. And there is a river (very small now), after sister Lybid. And even the metro station named after her. There is an epic work&nbsp; &quot;Chronicle of Bygone Years&quot; which tells about those times and the persons. I think it is translated into English (maybe partly). Though it says it is Russian, but it has nothing to do with Russia. The Chronicle gives the period when Kiy lived, it is assumed sometime between 570 - 640. So, Kyiv was founded during this period. Official data is 988. That year Kyiv Rus was baptised and legalised as a state. The Chronicle itself was written in about 1100. Moscow was first mentioned as Moskovia princedom in 1147.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]286230[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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