Editing Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv (section)

==Historical background==
In the ''[[Primary Chronicle]]'' ({{circa}} 1110s), written by a monk of the [[Kyiv Pechersk Lavra]] (traditionally attributed to [[Nestor the Chronicler|Nestor]]), a special place is held by the legend of the foundation of Kiev by three brothers.<ref name=den060714/> Nestor places those brothers onto various [[Kyiv Mountains|hills of Kyiv]].<ref name=den060714/> Geographically, the [[Old Kyiv|Old Town]] is located on a higher right bank of the [[Dnieper]], which is an extension of the [[Dnieper Upland]], where remnants of the [[Church of the Tithes]] are located.{{cn|date=May 2024}}

The ''Chronicle'' further states that there were people ("who did not know what they were saying") who considered Kyi a mere ferryman.<ref name=den060714/> But it later claims that Kyi, as a prince of his gens, was visiting [[Czargrad]] and received great honors from the Emperor.<ref name=den060714/> [[Dmitry Likhachov]] combined attestations of the [[Nikon Chronicle]], which also recounts that Kyi with a great army marched onto Czargrad and received great honors from the Emperor.<ref name=den060714/> During his expedition to [[Constantinople]], Kyi also founded a city of Kyivets on the [[Danube]].<ref name=den060714/>

Nestor also names the approximate date of the assault on Kyiv by the [[Khazar Empire]] as "after the death of Kyi," which supports [[Boris Rybakov]]'s hypothesis of the 6th–7th centuries.<ref name=den060714/> In his chronicle Nestor does not indicate the date of Kyi's death nor the existence or absence of heirs who continued to rule after his death.<ref name=den060714/> The chronicle does mention a meeting between local residents with the newly arrived [[Askold and Dir]] who asked them whose city Kjiv was, and received the answer that the three brothers who built it were long dead and the residents now paid tribute to the [[Khazars]].<ref name=den060714/> However, the Polish historian [[Jan Długosz]] points out the Przemysł Chronicle that asserts, "after the death of Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv, their children and grandchildren who descended from them by direct lineage ruled for many years."<ref name=den060714/>