97) “History of the Church” by Metropolitan Macarius, pp. 64, 65, 66, vol. 1.
98) Pu4esh., r. 98. Iurzakevich, “Attractions of the city of Smolensk,” Chteshya Moskovsk. General East. and Ancient, 1846, vol. I; see also, Murzakevich, “East city of Smolensk”, M. 1801.
THAT. The territory and cities of the Polotsk and Turov principalities.
To the west of the Smolensk Krivichi lived their relatives, the Polotsy Krivichi. They also became independent early on. The boundaries of this principality can be determined as follows.
To the east the Polotsk border was adjacent to Smolensk; on this side we see the Poloshche cities: Usvyatz (Vyevyat), Bilpebekv and to the west Lukaml, now the town of the Mogilev province of Snnensky district. To the south of the border of the Polotsk possessions indicated by us, there was a line along the watershed between the Dnieper and Vabich, a tributary of the Druta, which flows into the Dnieper at Rogachev. The line ended, in any case, at the southern point of the Golovchin district of the Mogilev district, in which they see the ancient Golotichesk, under which Yaropolk defeated Vseslav of Polotsk. On the Drut, in its upper course, on the borders of the Mogilev and Orsha districts, we see Drutsk, undoubtedly Drutekz, a specific city of the Polotsk principality. Near the mouth of the Vabich, the boundary takes a direction from east to west.
From the data of modern geographical nomenclature on the eastern Polotsk border, we also note: Gorodets on Luches of the Orsha district, N. Gorodets in the Sennen district. on the river Usits, flowing into the Ulla, Gorodets on the Druti, below the confluence of the Vabich, Gorodets on the Grezl, a tributary of the Druti.
The southern border begins at the mouth of the Vabich or a little south. From here the line went to the Berezin, which was crossed at the Svisloch River, where the ancient Vovisloch, mentioned in the XIII century
V. and, most likely, existed in the 12th century. The Dalfe border headed, perhaps, to the upper reaches of the Ptich, a tributary of the Pripyat, and the Us River, a N'mansky tributary, and then moved to the upper reaches of its tributary the Sula, taking the northern direction. On the southern borders of the Polotsk dominions, the edge of the mentioned Drutsk, we see Borisov, now a provincial town, Lozozheskv, now Logoisk, the town of the Borisov federal town, the outskirts of Minsk, now a provincial town, Izyaslavl, now the town of Zaslavl Minsk town, Novozorodok Lithuanian. From the data of modern geographical nomenclature on this border the borders of the slfduyushchiya: Gorodno, Borisov Federal District of Health on the river. Bobrf, Gorodets on the river. Sumy, a tributary of the Olsa, Gorodok on Ptich, south of the road from Bobruisk to Slutsk, Gorodok to Bobr. u., Gorodok to the square from Minsk, between it and the town of Mlogoisk on the river. Usyazhf, a tributary of the Gaina, which flows into the Berezina from Borisov, south of Minsk, on the borders of its federal department and Igumensky, - Rubli, Rubezhi on the river. Ores to Beaver. u., tributary of Ptich, on it the southern M. and B. Gorodyatichi, Gorodishche on the river. Ves, flowing into the Sluch above Slutsk, then Vel. Krivichi near the upper reaches of the N'manskaya Berezina, Rubezhevichi Minsk. u. on Sulz, a tributary of the N'mana. The western border of the Principality of Polotsk began, most likely, on the upper reaches of the N%man and its tributaries: Sul, Bystraya, Islachi and Berezin, where in the 12th century. we see the Polotsy town of Gorodets, border with Lithuania. To the west, the Polotsk and Krivichi bordered with Lithuania, about which reliable information is available almost only from half of
HSHV.; It was very difficult to drive this border between the Polotsk borders to the west and north-west. On this border, a quiet colonization of the Krivichi into the land of Lithuania was constantly carried out. Therefore, the border often became wrinkled. Until the 13th century. The Lithuanians had almost no cities, so the Krivichi, for their part, did not have to fence themselves off from the society, warlike clashes with which began only at the turn of the 16th and 13th centuries. There is sketchy information about the existence of rulers of Russian princes in Lithuania in the 18th century. But they, again, belong to the colonization movements of the Krivichi tribe and did not constitute the permanent territory of the principality. So, in the first years of the 13th century. Nfmtsy faced the Krivichi princes Veszeke from Kokeinos and Vissevalde from