Principality of Sit

The Principality of Sit is a small appanage principality of Russia, located in the basin of the Sit River which was established in 1408, being separated from the Principality of Mologa. The territory of the principality had formerly belonged to the Grand Principality of Yaroslavl. The territory of the principality is interesting because it dwells on the ethnic group called sitskari, who came under the attention of researchers only in the XVIII-XIX centuries, the origin is unknown, but probably has something to do with the history of the principality.

The first prince was specific Semen Fedorovich (XVI knee from Rurik ), the second son of Prince Mologa Fyodor, who received the land after his father's death in 1408 of the earth. Duchy of land located in the middle of the river Sit and formerly belonged to the principality of Yaroslavl. In the same section Mologa Duchy downstream from the village of Sit Breytovo departed to Prozorovsky principality, and the upper reaches of the river belonged to the Duchy of Uglich.

Feudal lords were the two sons of Seeds - childless, Boris and Peter, whose son, Theodore Curve, was already bezudelnym prince in the service of the Moscow Grand Prince Ivan III and his son, Basil III , however, retained their ancestral lands in the river. At the Moscow office Sitsko princes are mentioned during the XVI and XVII century. By the beginning of the Petrine reforms of this kind no longer existed.