Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv
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Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv were the three legendary brothers—often mentioned along with their sister Lybеd' —who, according to the Primary Chronicle, founded the city of Kiev, which eventually became the
Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv with Lybed' (miniature of the Radziwiłł Chronicle)
The river Lybid, just south of Kyiv, may have inspired the name "Lybid" for the woman who co-founded Kyiv.
Graphic depiction of archaeological excavations in Kyiv by Vikentiy Khvoyka
Maidan Nezalezhnosti Monument to the Founders of Kyiv (2001)
Lech, Czech, and Rus
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Lech, Czech and Rus refers to a founding legend of three Slavic brothers who founded three Slavic peoples: the Poles, the Czechs, and the Rus'. The three legendary brothers appear together in the Wiel
Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv
…and Princess Wanda) of Krakus legendary founder of Kraków from Chronica seu originale regum et principum Poloniae (12–13th century), and three brothers Lech, Czech, and Rus from Wielkopolska Chronicle (13th century). Khoryv or Horiv, and his oronym Khorevytsia, some scholars related to the Croatian ethnonym of White Croats…
The brothers Lech and Czech, founders of West Slavic lands of Lechia (Poland) and Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic) in "Chronica Polonorum" (1506)
Lech, Czech, Rus and the White Eagle, as painted by Walery Eljasz-Radzikowski (1841–1905)
Čech on Říp Mountain
Lech, Czech, and Rus oaks in Rogalin, Poland