But what was the relationship of the Udfls to each other and to Polotsk by the end of the HP century? It seems that the sources give reason to assert that the udfls were completely independent in internal management and in foreign policy and agreed with the wishes and views of the main city only when it was considered useful. So we see that formerly the Druchans and their prince Rogvolod entered into an alliance with Svyatoslav Olgovich, were under the patronage of Rostislav, Mstislavich, not agreeing with how beneficial alliances were for Polotsk. Then the Smolensk princes used the support of the Vasilkovichs, even yielding to Vitebek for support. During the campaign against Drutsk in 1180, we see all the princes in alliance with the Olgovichs, and only G5b Rogvolodovich is a supporter of David, and in 1195 the Drutsky prince Boris is already an opponent of the Smolensk prince. In a word, the princes have been in the vnfshny dflas since the middle of the 19th century. are completely independent. If each of them separately recognizes one or another alliance as useful, conclude it. Sometimes the interests of most or all princes converge in this way; so they were all against David in the campaign just named, in the campaign against him in 1190, in agreement with Yaroslav of Novgorod in the
170 M. DOVNAR-ZAPOLSKTGYI.
This is how they developed here, in the Polotsk region. The same foundations of ancient Russian social life, as we see. and in other areas, but with the only difference that in Polotsk they developed much faster, and therefore turned out to be dilapidated, not satisfying the vital needs of the new society. But at this time, history brought forward the western neighbors of the Polotsk Krivichi, a young and healthy Lithuanian tribe, which gave Polotsk, in return for its highly cultural beginnings, vital forces.
At the end of the 19th century. The relationship of the Lithuanians to Rus' is only beginning to emerge on the historical horizon, and the full development of these relations, the culturally remarkable interaction between the two nationalities, is accessible to the historian only from the half of the 13th century, the fate of which is not included in our task.
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