The area of the district is 1,505.02 square kilometers (581.09 sq mi).

[6] In the environs of Rylsk, two manors are of interest to the student of Russian history.

The village of Ivanovskoye, 20 kilometers (12 mi) east of Rylsk, has a summer residence of Ukrainian hetman Ivan Mazepa, while Maryino, slightly to the west, used to be a seat of the princely house of Baryantinsky, who in 1815-1816 built the Maryino Estate, which includes an extensive English park.

[9] On the occasion of his wedding to the wealthy Princess Catherine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Prince Baryatinsky received 4,000 serfs and villages[from whom?]

in the Kursk province: Ivanovskoe [ru],[10] Snagost and others in the Rylsky District, which Emperor Peter I gave to Hetman Ivan Mazepa before Mazepa sided with Sweden.