Principality of Rylsk

The Principality of Rylsk was an autonomous principality that existed from the middle of the 12th century to the year 1523 on the territory of Posemye during feudal disunity in Russia. The center of the principality was the town of Rylsk.

History
] Rylsk was first mentioned in the annals in 1152. Some historians refer to the origin of the prince's table by the 1160s. The Principality of Rylsk was one of the appanage principalities of the Principality of Novgorod-Seversky. The first Prince of Rylsk Svyatoslav Olgovich is mentioned in the annals as a participant in campaigns against the Polovtsians of 1183 and 1185. The campaign of 1185, described in the " Lay of Igor's Host " was unsuccessful, the army of the Novgorod-northern Prince Igor Svyatoslavich was defeated, many princes, including Svyatoslav Olgovich, were taken prisoner. The fate of the prince of Rylsk is unclear. According to some reports, he returned from captivity to Russia and became Prince of was the Kursk in 1196.

About the other princes who reigned in Rylsk before the Mongol invasion, nothing is known. According to some reports, in 1240 the town of Rylsk was torn by the Tatars, according to other sources, it stood firm. The chronicles contain information about the two Rylsk princes killed by the Tatars in the 1240s.

At the end of the 13th century, Rylsk was ruled by Prince Rylsky and Vorgolsky Oleg , who spoke with the Lipovich Prince Svyatoslav against the Baskak Akhmat. A year later the horde Nogaya ravaged and plundered the possessions of these princes. This was followed by a princely feud, during which both princes were killed. The Laurentian Chronicle attributes these events to the years 1283 - 1285, but most modern historians shift these events to the end of the 1280s - the beginning of the 1290's. At the beginning of the fourteenth century, the Popes was part of the Kiev principality under the control of the Putivl Olgovichi.

In the sixties of the 14th century, the territory of the Population became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The existence of the Rylsky Principality in the territory of Lithuania is evidenced by the fact that in the end of the 1390s the chronicles mention the prince Fyodor Patrikeevich, who died in the battle with the Tatars in Vorskla.

In 1454, after the death of Dmitry Y. Shemyaki , his son Ivan Dmitrievich Shemyakin drove through Pskov to Lithuania, King Kazimierz IV handed him "to feed" Rylsk and Novgorod-Seversky. The son of Prince Ivan Dmitrievich, Vasily Ivanovich Shemyachich, in 1500 turned to the Grand Prince of Moscow Ivan III with the request to take him to his "service and with patrimonies." Thus, the Rylsky principality became part of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

In 1523 Vasily Shemyachich was arrested, and his principality was liquidated. Thus, Rylsky's destiny ceased to exist, in the future it is known as the Rylsky district. In the Rylsky district, governors, who were sent here by the tsar "for feeding", ruled for the most part.