| Principality of Kozelsk Козельское княжество | |||||
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Kozelsk principality - Russian principality of the XII - XIII centuries with the center in the city of Kozelsk . Initially, the center of the principality was part of the Chernigov princedom
History Since 1246 in the Karachev Principality . In 1371 he took the vassalage of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . In 1408, Kozelsk acquired Vasily I Dmitrievich and gave it to Serpukhov prince Vladimir Brave, taking in exchange Volokolamsk and Rzhev. However, in 1445 the Lithuanians again took possession of Kozelsk and annexed it to their possessions. In 1448, Casimir gave it to the governorship of Prince Vorotynsky. Only in 1494 the Lithuanians recognized the city as the "father" of the Moscow princes, and he finally departed to the Russian state. One of the descendants of Titus Mstislavich, Prince Ivan Fedorovich Gorchak was the ancestor of the princes Gorchakovs.
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