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Much in Odessa is associated with the name of the count, and then of His Serene Highness Prince, Governor-General, Governor-General of the Caucasus - Mikhail Semenovich Vorontsov. Vorontsov belonged to one of the oldest noble households. You can visit such famous places as the Vorontsov Palace, the Colonnade of the Vorontsov Palace and other outstanding places.

Excursion to Sofia Park in Uman The world knows many masterpieces of landscape gardening, and it takes a lot of courage to pick out one as a unique pearl. But speaking about the Sofiyivka we can say with certainty that it doubtedly ranks high among them. Few works of landscape architecture can rival it in the amount of legends and romantic stories, which are concealed in its shady alleys, mysterious grottos, in formidable heaps of rocks.

But that was the very period, when two dominant Eastern Slavic nations formed - the Ruthenians (later Ukrainians) and Russians (later Muscovites)- since nothing could keep different peoples and interests of the Empire together anymore.

In 1199 The Great Prince Roman of Galicia was killed in a battle with Hungarians. His two sons - the eldest - Vasyl'ko, and the younger - Daniel were saved by their relatives from the boyars' anger - the Boyars, the large landowners, were fed up with the absolute rule of Roman and they started to change princes on the throne fast. When Vasyl'ko became of age, they blinded him.

Under Daniel, the first king among Eastern Slavic rulers, Galicia was fortified, the new capital was built - Kholm (now Khelm in Poland), It ceased back the power it lost after Roman's death and became the strongest among the other Eastern Slavic states.

The first invasion of Eastern Slavic states by Mongols was led by Batu Khan in 1248, who rolled his 400,000 army over Volga River and swept thru South-Eatern princedoms in a matter of two months - R'yazan'was the first. Batu's straightforward march to Vladimir and Suzdal demolished the North-East princely coalition. Batu's failure to reach Novgorod saved the craddle of the Russian nation from loot and fire but not from vassal dependance on the gigantic Mongolian State, the capital of which, Saray, was set up on the Lower Volga.

Before his death Daniel built the city of L'viv, named after his son Lev, who became the second King of Galicia. Under Lev's rule, (late 13th-early 14th cent.), Galicia started to experience strong pressure from Lithuania Poland and Hungary, especially because of dynastical marriages between Galicians and Poles (Lev's son, Shwarno, became the heir of Polish throne and the Lithuanian heir married Lev's daughter), however the kingdom was still successful in diplomatic balancing between Western Slavs, Hungarians and Mongols.

North Eastern remnants of Kyiv Rus' stagnated under the Mongols' Yoke, even though Russian nobles started to build up their influence among Mongols through dynastical marriages and rights to collect tribute.

At the time,in late 1320s, the first uprising of the Slavs in the North against Mongols took place - a Muscovite warlord, prince Dmitriy Donskoy defeated a large army of Khan Mamay, the Mongolan Commander, at Kulikowo. This uprising was praised by Russian historians as the end of Mongolan domination of North Eastern Rus'. It was, however, not quite so, if not so at all. The next action undertaken by Mongols was the destruction of Russian troops wherever found, great fire of Moscow and a holocaust. North East was very quickly "tied back to the Prairy Warrior's horse". The real meaning of this uprising were signs of decay in Mongol's empire.

These signs were ideally interpreted by Lithuanian Great Prince Mindovgas, who defeated 50,000 Mongolan troops in Volinia and declared by this fact the birth of a new power-breaker in the area. Nobody could oppose Lithuania at the time - nor reduced to nothing by incessant wars and internal conflicts Galician Kingdom, nor Catholic and thus obnoxious and suspicious Poland, nor short-handed Hungary, nor mixed with Mongols and trying in vain to draw a border between themselves and conquerers Muscovite nobility, nor Mongols themselves, squabbling between each other.

In 1350 Galician leadership exchanged the country's independence for their own security, territory's autonomy and the right to speak their own language - which already could be called Ukrainian, also protection from Mongols, Poles and Hungarians. Kyiv Princedom, badly ran by prince Mykhaylo - the last prince of kyiv and vassal of Mongols, joined Lithuania with great relief and joy. The Polozk Princedom - most of modern Belarus - was also quickly integrated into this new superstate. Lithuanian nobility was speaking this South East Slavic, which was the archaic prototype of Ukrainian, preached Christianity and comprised together with West Kyiv Rus', Galicia and Belarus a new Empire, which later came to be known as Lithuanian Rus'.