After death Oleg (912) Igor (912 - 945) reigned in escort in Kiev, after tragic death of which, power passed to his widow to Olga ( 945 - 965), «said drevlyane: « Here put to death a prince we Russian; we will take a wife his Olga for a prince our Small and will take Svyatoslava and will do him, that will want ». And drevlyane of the best husband sent it, by a number twenty, in a rook to escort in Kiev Olga, and stuck in a rook under Borichevym getting up. In fact water then flowed near the Kievan mountain, and people sat not on Hem, but on a mountain. A city Kiev was wherein now court of Gordyaty and Nikifora, and a princely court was in town, where now court of Vorotislava and Chudina, and a trap for birds was out of city; it was out of city and other court, where costs now the court of Ustavschika behind the church of our Sainted Lady of Tithe; above a mountain there was a tower court - there was there a stone tower. ». (« Story of temporal years ». Trudged. from escort in Kiev Old Russian D.S. Likhacheva).
The event described in a chronicle happened in 945. But not it comes into now our notice. We are interested by the second half of this fragment from a escort in Kiev chronicle, where reported about two princely courts, one of which was in town, and other after his limits. Archaeological researches, conducted in the district of gorodischa of escort in Kiev, exposed at first the palace of prince being out of city, and then and the second princely palace, more faithful their foundations. Second, at times finds, a palace had round in a plan, form and obviously was a timber-work on a stone foundation.