Monastic documents confirm the property rights of the monasteries: Pustynno-Nikolaevsky, Vydubitsky, Kyiv-Pechersk and Kyiv-Sophia. More than 200 such documents have been found so far. The oldest of them date back to almost the beginning of the 16th century, and the latest - to the half of the 16th century. and even at a later time. A series of these documents on property, not uninteresting in itself, becomes more interesting for us when, passing through two and a half centuries, it comes into contact with issues of a different nature. And we find several such cases in the documents under review. There are eg. documents indicating that the Kyiv monastic clergy, not wanting to submit to the Moscow government, were “captured in Kyiv* in 1663, and petitioned for their estates, through authorized persons, in the Ovruch castle, and not in Kyiv. Under 1636 there is a record of the monks of the St. Nicholas Monastery and representatives the monastic clergy of Kyiv about the election of Fyalofey Kizarevich to Nikolsky abbot with the handwritten signatures of voters. Under 1644 there are two letters from Samuil Kazimir Zenkovich to Peter Mohyla, one of which is known only from the table of contents, and the other has been preserved intact. Lastly, Zenkovnch, informing Peter Mogila about the giving of the Nestanovsky inhabitants of the Davi in favor of the Church of God from the island of Seltsa, asks the Metropolitan
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He wants to send documents to this island and brings his complaint to the Neetan priest and others. From this letter it is clear that Mogila did not pay attention to Zenkovich’s request and complaints.
About one hundred and thirty documents have been selected so far for starostas or starostin estates. The oldest of them date back to 1714, and the latest to 1802. All of them almost exclusively relate to the elderships of Zvinogrodsvo and Lisyansvo. These Starostin estates, constituting the property of the Polish crown and being distributed for lifelong ownership to persons who had rendered merit to the Polish nation, were a significant means of pollinating the local region. Their full composition in the local region is indicated by the inventory of the estates of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, located in the voivodeships of Kyiv, Bratslav and Podolsk in 1781. And the documents for these elderships reveal to us the gradual process of pollination of the region. We see from here exactly which persons of Polish origin were successively affected by the famous eldership, how they seized the property of Russian nobles, for example. Vygovskys, and strengthened them behind them. Here we also see a whole series of disputes between the owners of villages and their neighbors - disputes sometimes accompanied by violent attacks. These disputes apparently originated from abroad; but we can conclude that they were sometimes motivated by other oppositional motives of the Cossacks. There are eg. several documents testifying to the violence carried out by the Smilyanskys and other residents and Cossacks around 1774, 1780 and 1790.
This year the Society of St. Nestor merged with another historical society that was supposed to be at Kyiv University. It would be desirable that the combined forces and resources of these two societies be aimed at finding, studying and publishing monuments of local history hidden in various archives of the city of Kyiv. Then the archive of the Kyiv Treasury Chamber would provide the public with materials for several not uninteresting pages of local history.
Biographical information about Peter Mogila before his ordination to the rank of Kyiv-Pechersk Archimandrite.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, longevity and generosity were very valuable qualities in the eyes of the Western European nobility, the Polish gentry and the Lithuanian-Russian aristocracy. Therefore, all the more or less remarkable persons of that time loved to trace the beginning of their genealogy (often contrary to common sense and history) to the most distant times - the times of the Roman Empire, Alexander the Great, Noah and even Adam. We notice a similar desire in the surname Mogil. In the Polish armorials that have come down to our time, whose direct task was to satisfy the ambitions of the nobility, and from books dedicated to Peter Mogila, we learn that the said family considered Mucius Scaevola as its direct ancestor, whose descendants allegedly moved from Rome to Greece, and from here to the Noldovlachi lands, where they finally settled,)‘~~F&*ideal coat of arms of the Graves—two nudes,