However, the Polish historian Jan Długosz drew attention to 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". The chronicle does mention a meeting between local residents with the arrived Askold and Dyr who asked them referring to Kyiv, whose city it was and received the answer that the three brothers who built it were long dead and the residents now paid tribute to the Khazars. In his chronicle Nestor does not indicate the date of Kyi's death nor the existence or absence of his heirs who continued to rule after his death. Nestor also names the approximate date of the assault on Kyiv by the Khazar Empire as "after the death of Kyi" which confirms the hypothesis of Boris Rybakov, 6th-7th centuries. During his expedition to Constantinople, Kyi also found a city of Kyivets on the Danube. Dmitry Likhachov combined attestations of the Nikon Chronicle which also indicates that Kyi with a great army marched onto Czargrad and received great honors from the Emperor. But, then it argues that Kyi as a prince of his gens was visiting Czargrad and received great honors from the Emperor. The Chronicle further states that there were people ("who did not know what were saying") who considered Kyi a mere ferryman. Geographically, the old Kyiv is located on a higher right bank of the Dnipro (Dnieper) which is an extension of the Dnipro (Dnieper) Upland where remnants of the Church of the Tithes are located. In the legend, Nestor places those brothers onto various hills of Kyiv. In the Primary Chronicle which is traditionally believed to have been written by a monk of Kyiv Cave Monastery by the name of Nestor and finished in 1113, a special place is held by the legend about the foundation of Kyiv by three brothers.
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