The ruined Kudryntsi Castle is perched on a hilltop overlooking the Zbruch River

Zbruch River

Zbruch River is a river in Western Ukraine, a left tributary of the Dniester.It flows within the Podolia Upland starting from the Avratinian Upland. Zbruch is the namesake of the Zbruch idol, a sculpture of a Slavic deity in the form of a column with a head with four faces, discovered in 1848 by...

 in Borschiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast

Ternopil Oblast

Ternopil Oblast is an oblast' of Ukraine. Its administrative center is Ternopil, through which flows the Seret River, a tributary of the Dnister.-Geography:...

, Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

, 25 km west of a larger fortress

Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle

Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle is a former Ruthenian-Lithuanian castle located in the historic city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast , in the historic region of Podolia in western Ukraine...

 in Kamianets-Podilskyi

Kamianets-Podilskyi

Kamyanets-Podilsky or Kamienets-Podolsky is a city located on the Smotrych River in western Ukraine, to the north-east of Chernivtsi...

. It was built in the early 17th century by Jan Szczęsny Herburt

Jan Szczesny Herburt

Jan Szczęsny Herburt , Polish-Lithuanian political writer, diplomat, poseł to the Sejm. Early supporter of kanclerz Jan Zamoyski, took part in many diplomatic missions...

 and throughout the ensuing century was subjected to repeated sieges by the Cossacks and the Turks

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

. By the 19th century, some portions of the walls had crumbled away, and the structure was abandoned to its fate.

External links

• A Russian page about the Kudryntsi Castle