We led David to achieve the fact that Vitebsk was ceded to him; Although the world is not told about this, this concession is clear anyway. On the campaign of 1180, we see the Olgovichi against Drutsk in number. their allies Bryachislav Vasilkovich from Vitebsk. And in 1195, i.e. 4 years after David's campaign, Vitebsk was already in unconditional dependence on the Smolensk princes. When the already known to us negotiations about the Yuevsky table between the Olgovichi and Rosti-Slavichs began, the former, obviously, strongly sought to take possession of Vitebsk,
This is quite understandable, because then they would have in their power
This city, located in the very land of Polotsk, could have significant to strengthen your efforts in this area and constantly improve your literary views of the Smolensk prince. Rurik Rostislavich established
Vitebsk drank to the Olgovichs, but with the tfm that he would have a preliminary talk with David. The Olgovichi hurried to occupy the genus. Yaroslav sent his nephew Oleg Svyatoslavich there, and various appanage Polotsk princes joined him.
David sent troops under the command of Mstislav Romanovich.
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Thank Rostislavich it was true to take prisoner 22).
The attitude of Vitebsk towards David can be seen from. the fact that the Rostislavichs dispose of it as their own city, although there was their own prince here, the son-in-law of David, probably one of them. princes of Polotsk. Karamzin call him Vasilko 23).
Although, as we know, David managed to retain Vitebsk, his influence on the Polotsk land, as we saw, was increasingly limited; He, having lost control of Polotsk itself, supported the Drutsk princes, but one of them, Boris Rogvolodovich, was among the allies of the Olgovichs and the pl-vil Mstislav Romanovich during the campaign just described.
Thus, David lost his significance in Druts as well, retaining only Vitebsk and then as a subject city. |8 Describing the events that followed, our portraits are not at all. they mention the name of the Prince of Polotsk. This gave rise to a wide variety of assumptions. Everyone knows about the unsuccessful combine
22) Ipat., 464-5, Nikon., X, 27, Tversk., 285, Lavrent. 392. 33) Karamzin, PP. priiech. 95, r. 46, Arpybashev, G, 237, Tatishev, I. 277. _
Stryikovsky, who wanted to fill in the blank of books by nominating some Boris Ginvillovich. Since the end of last year, attacks have been pouring in on Stryikovskato, but between the two, the issue has been satisfactorily nerfed. The most common explanation is that Polotsk survived at the end of the 19th century. during troubled times, it was governed by only one thing, until the Lithuanians took possession of it. During this time, Prince Vladimir appears in front of the Polotsk story, to whom Henry Latvian tells the story. Lyzhin, looking for this Vladimir, found him in the person of Vladimir Rurikovich ^) and identified both princes. But this is a stretch. Rurik has no connection with Polotsk, as is well known, and most importantly, we have just seen how the Smolensk louse lost all its power by the end of the century. In addition, the mentioned author points out the close relationship of Vseslav and Bryachislav Vasilkovich with the Smolensk princes, etc. But such a transfer of the entire Polotsk land to Rurikovich is unnatural for this reason. that both southern and Smolensk photo writers know about such a person so close to Rus'. But the most important thing is the fact that Vladimir Rurikovich gave birth only in 1187 *), while Henry Latvian first mentions Vladimir of Polotsk around 1186; this is to lose sight of Lyzhin in his position. And in general, there is hardly any point in trying to find Vladimir of Polotsk in any of the Omolensk or other princes. Although our chronicle does not mention the name of the Prince of Polotsk, this does not prove that he was not there. After all, our photographic records, of course, do not know much about the Polotsk diffs.
< At the turn of KhPI Art. Smolensk abandons its claims to ITolotsk, the Smolensk chronicles do not contain any information about it, the center of state life is transferred to Vsevolod in Vladimir—the reasons for the silence are clear. On the other hand, it is also not reasonable to assume that very numerous Polotsk princes have disappeared, because on the campaign of 1180. There are seven of them in the chronicle. Meanwhile, Heinrich Latvish is recognized by everyone as one of the conscientious chroniclers of his time, which no one else
No. Izvetya Acad. Sciences, 1858, vol. UP, r. 57. 25) Ip., 442.
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