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He was a son of Roman Aleksandrovich, appanage prince of
Vladimir-in-Volynia. He was appanage prince of Drutsk. His sons were
Vasilii and Semyon,
appanage princes of Drutsk. They are shown on this family
chart.
Drutsk is now in Belorussia. It was first mentioned by Vladimir Monomakh in
1078 and then in the chronicles for 1092. It stood on the Drutsk river, a
tributary of the Dniper. At first Drutsk and its surrounding lands was part of
the Polotsk principality until the death of Vsyeslav Bryacheslavich. He
apparently gave it to his son Boris and his descendents. Then it went to the
Minsk principalith where it was ruled by Gleb Vsyeslavich and in the first half
of the12th century it became an independent udel in which the descendents of
Vsyeslav Bryachislavich ruled. The udel played an important rule in the wars of
the descendents of Vsyeslav with the family of Yaroslav the Wise and was one of
the more important markets. In 1116 Vladimir Monomakh went on campaign against
Gleb and devastated his lands while taking Drutsk. Vladimir Monomakh's son
Yaropolk Vladimirovich participated in these campaigns and took Drutsk for
himself. In the middle of the 13th century Drutsk udel was taken by the
Lithuanians and the town gradually lost its importance as a fortress but
continued to the beginning of the 15th century to preserve its udel status. In
1508 Dmitrii Yur'yevich and two of his brothers stuck it out there and didn't
run to Moscow. But eventually the Drutsk princes became known as separate
families such as Drutski-Sokolinski, Drutski-Lubetske, Drutski-Gorenski, and
others. By then they had lost the rights as udel rulers.
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