The information about this path must be accepted with some reservation. The chronicle says that Rostislav went “for the winter,” which could mean that he went in the winter, or maybe even in the fall 22). But on the existence of this path, in addition to its natural one, it should also be pointed out that the city of Prupoi (on Sozh
31) Barsov, “Essays”, p. 24. He bases his information on the account of the Novgorod 1st book written in 1199, where it is said that the Polochans sailed against them with the army of Yaroslav of Novgorod. Caspl lakes The venerable scientist rightly rants, what kind of lake is this? Kasple Polochans could not meet the Novgorodians, but met at the estuary of Kasple, but in mentioning the lake he saw the author’s acquaintance with Kasple, as a tract that lay on the usual route from Novgorod to Smolensk. What they knew in Novgorod © Kaspl, there is nothing surprising in this, but the important thing is that in this case the photographic record still does not say whether anyone followed this nut. `Guess of Prof. Barsov seems plausible to us, but does not at all stem from the meaning of the chronicle evidence: from Kasplya to Dnira there is a small drag, but a river. this one is still navigable in its lower reaches.
nsh. In the middle he sat down. Basplya, served as a storage point on the way from Riga, here in the foam there were barns for storage of transported grain, built with the destruction of Sigismupda. See 0o-
Loviev, Agricultural stat. Smol. gub., M. 1855, b. 14. 3?) In. 364.
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at the confluence of the Pronya) it became a border and, obviously, a customs town: in the Charter of Rostislav Mstislavich, a tavern tribute is noted here, that is, a tribute with a tavern arranged for those passing through.
To bypass the same bend of the Dzpr on its western side, there was a direct path from the middle Podvina region to the middle Podvina region. This path went like this: from the Dvina he walked along the French. Ull, flowing into the Dvina at Cape Ully, between Vitebsk and Polotsk. The path went along Ulla to Lepelskato 0z., from which it originates and into which the river flows. Essa. The middle current of Essa connects with lake. The river from which the Sergut tributary of the Berezina originates, a small portage through which the Berezinsk Canal now passes. However, there is a little northern part of the canal, in the middle of the said crossing, a lake near the village. The window is connected to Essa by a small river, so that the portage is completely insignificant, about three miles. We find this path indicated in lFtopisyakh in the description of the god Svyatoslav (Olgovich from Novgorod in 1141. Ovyatoslav, fearing the hostile Smolensk prince Rostislav Mstislavich, sent his government through Polotsk 33), and with the Polotsk princes at that time his brother Vsevolod and all the Olgovichs were on friendly terms (3%). Vmfst with Svyatoslav, it’s a pity and the mayor of Novgorod Yakun and his take Prokosh. The Novgorodians chased after him “and Yasha Yakuna on Plisi” 35). Plisa is located in Minsk province. and flows into the Berezina through Bobr, below Borisov. Obviously, Yakun, together with the prince, headed from Polotsk along the Berezin, a natural direct route to the middle Dnepropetrovsk region through the Sholotsk dominions. But avoiding pursuit, Yakun and his brother turned off on their way from the Berezina to Bobr and Ilisa, wanting to hide in remote places. Edfs and then he was captured by the Novgorodians 36).
6) 06Ъ, beginning to quarrel, princely lin! tried to attract Polotsk kiyazis. Vsevolod began his intercourse earlier and ended the friendship with marriage. IP. 224, Nick. (P.S.R.L.t. [X), p. 167.
35) Novg., 133, Tverskaya, P.S.L., t. XU r. 2083.
36) Barsov doubts the existence of the indicated route: “On other important routes from the Dvina region to Podnfirovye there is, however, an unclear decree in the Izvfeti of the Novgorodians (1127) and in the Izvfet! and 1141,” “Essays,” p. 224.
The connection of routes from the Dnepropetrovsk region to the Podvinia region and from there to the lake region and the Baltic Sea was known in ancient times under the name “from Varag to the Greeks.” Here is how the chronicler defines it: “And a 6% route from the Varangians to the Greeks: from the Greeks along the Dnipro, and the top of the Dnipro was dragged to Lovot, and along Lovot the great lake entered into Ilmer, from the same lake the Volkhov flowed and flowed into the great lake Nevo, and the mouth of that lake entered the Varyaskoe Sea” 37). The middle part of the journey - from the Dnipro to Lovat, the chronicler had a vague idea of, believing that these rivers are connected only by a portage, which was already drawn to the attention of Prof. Barsov 38).