Principality of Zaozero

Zaozersk princedom - destiny in the Yaroslavl princedom, existing in the XV century.

Expansion of the Moscow Principality in 1300-1462. Zaozerye at the top. Zaozerye is the land lying along the north-eastern and north-western sides of the Kubensky Lake. Even before 1447, the Zaozersk principality was annexed to Moscow, after which, after some hesitation, it remained.

The first specific Zaozersky prince (in 1420-1440) was Dmitry Vasilyevich, the grandson of Yaroslavl prince Vasily Davydovich Grozny Ochi. The daughter of this Dmitry was in marriage to Dmitry Shemyaka, his son Simon was, it seems, the second Zaozersky prince.

Literature SS Serebrenikov, "Zaozersk principality" (in the "Yaroslavl Province Gazette", 1843, No. 3); Exemplarsky AV Great and specific princes of Northern Russia in the Tatar period, from 1238 to 1505. - St. Petersburg. : Printing house of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1891. - T. II. - 696 s. See also List of Russian principalities Russian princedoms Russian princedoms in alphabetical order