troops would occupy it during a siege. After the battle with Vseslav, the princes went 137) to the Smolensk region and stopped at Orsha; It is very possible that they, in view of the defeat of Vseslav and in view of the coming spring, moved straight from N'mizi to Orsha. Thus, it seems to us that, in any case, N%Miza was not in Minsk itself, but, most likely, somewhere between Minsk and the Dnipro and Dvina. Let us add that in the list of cities Nemiga is located between Druteskom and Rsha, followed by: Sviloch, Lukaml, Logosk, etc. 188). } It is also unclear the position of Dudutok, mentioned in “Tales of Igor’s Campaign”: “jump (Vseslav) along to Nemiga from Dudutok.” Barsov believes that this allusion of the Word refers to the famous flight of Vseslav from Yeyuev, and the following., Dudutki should mean the extreme Eyuev city 139). But it seems to us that what is being said here is not about Vseslav’s beatings, but about the fact that having learned about the capture of Minsk by the Izyaslavichs, from Dudutot, where he stood with the troops, he quickly moved to Nemigv, where he was captured by the Izyaslavichs: this explains the popular expression “noide against.” In this case, Dudutki should have looked to the north from Minsk, near Polotsk, where in the center of the earth, Vseslav, perhaps, was gathering a militia, with which he moved against Izyaslavich.
Druteskö—now% Drutsk on the upper reaches of the river. Druti, which flows into the Dnefpr near Rogachev. For the first time he is mentioned in chronicles in 1092 about the miracle that went from Drutsk to Po-
137) Dlugosh say that the Yaroslavic moved uegziz Ro]0seo, but Vseslav vetretil ih on No1etsa. Toaiiz 0150591 Nazonae Rooshae m HI, RgapsoniYa, Appo 1711, vol. R r. 255.
138) P.S.R. L., t. UP, r. 240. For considerations about the historical Nemigv in Minsk, see Shpilevskato, Putesh. by Paul. and Belor. edge, Let's lie. 1854, No. ХG, b. 32 and in Zeleneky (Material for geogr. and statistics of Russia, Minsk province, G, p. 6). The last one holds the opposite opinion and points to what is in the present. time this stream dried up; formed in the spring from flowing waters, it begins in Minek itself (in the so-called Otarom city), moreover, at its southern end, it is directed from the southwest or even from the poop to the north and flows into the Svisloch on the right side, near M%fet, where, according to legend, there was an old castle.
139) „Essays on the river historical geogr., page 185. Bylyaev’s place is located in the village of Dudichi on Ptich%, to the south of Minsk.
tray 0). In 1116, during the famous campaign against Gluba Minsk, he was taken by David and Yaropolk, and all its inhabitants were taken south to the Pereyaslavl principality, where Yaropolk built the city of Zheldi No. 1). During the defeat of the Polotsk princes, Mstislav sent his brother Rostislav to Dryutesk, although it is unknown whether the city was taken then No. 2). At half $ HP c. he already plays a prominent role in the Polotsk civil strife; Trying to have a separate prince, the Druchans expel Glb, the son of the Polotsk prince Rostislav, and invite Rogvolod "°). At the end of the 16th century, Drutesk, fighting with the main cities of the land of Polotsk, submitted to the protectorate of the Smolensk princes. The struggle between Polotsk and the suburbs was very serious: they also took part in it Chernigov princes; 144) Chernigov and Smolensk princes fought for the principality, which was torn apart by infighting.
Golotichesk®—the location of which is currently not determined. It is mentioned only once in 1071: under it Yaropolk Izyaslavich defeated Vseslav, Bryachislavich / “5). More often, Golotichesk is equated with the borough of Golovchina, 32 versts from Mogilev '°), but this has little credibility.").
140) Irat. 150. The definition of Drutesk’s position was made by Tatishchev, t. P, r. 459, approx. 862.
141) Ip. 208. Narbut, and after him Turchinovich in the summer. Zheldi, Zhelni see the construction of Novgorod of Lithuania, on the basis that one part of the current Novogrudok was called Zhelna and Narbut saw some document from the end of the KhUT Art., which says that he wrote in Novogrudok on FZhelnenskoye podzamach. Maghrib, “02ee”, $. Sh, r. 274, Turchinovich, “Review of the history of Belarus,” p. 263. This point cannot be given any serious significance: Yaropolk took Druchan, of course, into his own volost and founded a town there to fight the Polovtsians, and not Lithuania.
143) Itz. 419.—To the list of cities of Drutesk—among the Lithuanian ones.