NEJIN, a city of Russia, in the province of Tcherni-
gow, in what was formerly distinguished as Little Russia.
It stands on the river Oster. The streets are intermixed
with large gardens, filled with fruit trees of various kinds.
It contains 1000 houses, two convents, and sixteen churches,
all built after the model of those in Moscow, and is reck-
oned the handsomest town to the south of that capital. The
inhabitants are about 12,000, composed, besides Russians
and Kossacks, of many Greek and Armenian families. The
most distinguished building is the Gymnasium Bezborodko,
founded by the count of that name. It is a large edifice,
adorned by a colonnade of twelve Ionic pillars, and, being
surrounded by high trees, it has a truly noble appear-
ance. It was instituted for the education of young noblemen.