The most important city after Turov was Pinsk (n.u. mountains), located in a swampy area at the headwaters of Pripyat, at the confluence of it with Pina. In terms of trade, it represented a very advantageous point, since through it Volyn, Eyuevschina and Dregovichi communicated with the Yatvingians and Poland. Pinsk was mentioned for the first time in 1097. David Igorevich pointed out to Svyatopolk Izyaslavich that Vasilko was plotting to take Turov and Pinsk from him and that he was going to accept the government 179). In general, he is almost always mentioned inseparably with Turov, which indicates that he is more important 180). About half of the 13th century. he had already emerged as a special udfl 181) and his significance rose during the struggle of the Galician princes with Lithuania.
On Pripyat, east of Turov, there was an insignificant town of the principality of Mozyr, located on the southern elevated bank of the river. It was first mentioned in 1155 182).
115) Slupeky “Izyaelavl and Turov” in the “SOVER-West Calendar” for 1888, p. 135.
177) Name Art. Slutskato, 136, “Memorable Book for the Minsk Province for 1878, part I in Turov’s description; and also in Kalaidovich’s “Memorables of Russian Literature of the 10th Century.” in the preface to the work. Kirill Turoveky.
115) See Martyn Mnich’s statement in “History of the Russian Church” proev. Makarmya, T, r. 300-301.
150) Vyacheslav says: “He took Gurov and Pinsk from me,” Ipat., b. 197; also r. 324, etc.
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182) Ip., 381. For historical information about Mozyr, see “Memorable book for Minsk province.” for 1878, part P, as well as in the steel of Belorussian Khotomekiy “City of Mozyr”, placed in the “Minekom Listk” for 1887 Nos. 85-7 and in our articles “Notes from Traveling around Belarus”, \, “Vileneyuy Veetnik”, 1890, No. 232.
In the corner formed by Pripyat and Dn®prom there was a small town called Dregovichey Bryazin 133), on the river. BryaginkV (now% mѪstechko R$chitsky u.); half $ HP art. he undoubtedly belonged to the YEVLevsky prince: the Olgovichi, who in 1147 were in an alliance with Yuri of Rostov and in enmity with Izyaslav Eevsky, fought the Bryaginsky volost 18%).
In 1187, Rurik Rostislavich gave Bryagin his daughter-in-law, wife of Vsevolod Yuryevich, whose daughter Verkhuslav he married his son Rostislav 185). Near Bryagin, 12 settlements of the pre-Christian era and 18 burial mounds are scattered, which indicates the strategic importance of this area 186).
The most northern cities of the Principality of Turov at this time were Klichesk 187) and Sluchesk, the first in the present day. time m%stechko Slutsky u. (Kletsk) Minsk province. and the second is ujdn. mountains the same province.—The first time Klechesk is mentioned is about the campaign of Mstislav Monomashich in 1127 against the Polotsk princes: BVyacheslav Yaropolchich set out with his retinue, who, apparently, had an inheritance in the Turov lands, probably Klichesvy 188). In 1142, it was mentioned among other Dretovichi cities, which Vsevolod distributed to his brothers after Keva was occupied by him 183).
Sluchesk in 1116 was burned by Gleb of Minsk. And in 1119, he, instead of Klecheskoy, passed to Svyatoslav Oltovich, after the enthronement of Yuri of Rostov in Kilevz 191). Around 1162, Vladimir Mstislavich took possession of the property, but the Turov princes, Rurik and Svyatopolk Yurievich, forced him to retire 19°).
183) The location of Bragin was determined by Artsybashev, Pov. o Rossi, T, 109, approx. 408.
186) (see an interesting article about the Bratino volost in the “Calendar (SFvero-Zamadny region”), published under the editorship of M. Zapolsky, 1889, p. 114 and slbd.
187) Artsybyshev, Pov, o R., T, r. 70.
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192) Ip., 356. Professor V.B. Antonovich classifies Sluchesk and Kletsk as Polotsk fiefs ("Monographs", vol. T, p. 20). But both cities were undoubtedly in the land of Dre-
These cities at this time constituted the territory of the Principality of Turov.
We indicated the indigenous territory of the three principalities of interest to us: Polotsk, Smolensk and Turov. In our presentation, we omitted everything that relates to the outskirts of these lands and, therefore, the facts of the colonization movement of the VKrivichs and Dregovichs. We will talk about this issue in one of the following chapters, and now let us turn to the political history of the three principalities that interest us in this period.