Principality of Galich-Mersky

Galich-Merskoe principality or Galich principality - an appanage principality in Vladimir-Suzdal Ru's. The capital is the city of Galich, a modern regional center of the Kostroma Oblast of Russia on the shore of the Lake Galich.

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[[File:Muscovy 1300-1462.png|thumb|350px|Expansion of the Moscow Principality in 1300 - 1462 In 1247 the Grand Duke of Vladimir Svyatoslav III Vsevolodovich singled out to the nephews, the sons of Grand Duke Yaroslav II, the principality of the estate. One of them, Konstantin , got the Galitsko-Dmitrov principality . The territory of the principality, which occupied a comparatively small territory, included the basin of the Galichsky Lake with its center in Galicia Mersky, which before belonged to the Vladimir Grand Duchy, and the city of Dmitrov with volosts, originally part of the Pereyaslavl (Zalessky) principality.

With the grandchildren of Constantine in the 30s of the fourteenth century, the principality split into two parts. Actually Galicia princedom went to Fyodor Davydovich, and Dmitrovsky principality to Boris Davydovich.

Around 1363, Metropolitan Alexy of Kiev and All Russia, who ruled during the childhood and adolescence of Grand Duke Dmitri Ivanovich , viewed Galich as " buying " Ivan I Kalita , drove off his grandson Fyodor, Prince Dmitry Ivanovich. The ruler of Moscow sent his deputies to the principality, in fact annexing him to the Moscow possessions.

According to the spiritual testament of Dmitry Donskoy in 1389, the Galician principality was again allotted and went along with the towns of Zvenigorod and Ruza to his son Yury Dmitrievich. But after the defeated Dmitry Shemyaka's battle in 1450 fled to Novgorod, Vasilii Dark finally put an end to the independence of the Galician principality, having annexed his lands to Moscow.

Later, the Moscow rulers gave Galich several times "to feed " their sons, but they no longer possessed any rights of ownership.

List of rulers 1247 - 1255 : Konstantin Yaroslavich 1255 - 1280 : Davyd Konstantinovich 1280 - 1310 : Vasily Konstantinovich 1310 - up to 1335 : Fedor Davydovich to 1335 - to 1360 : Ivan Fedorovich 1360 - 1363 : Dmitry Ivanovich (Borisovich) [4] 1363 - 1389 : In the Moscow Grand Duchy. 1389 - 1433 : Yuri Dmitrievich 1433 - 1450 : Dmitry Y. Shemyaka