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HOUSE OF KONSTANTIN YAROSLAVICH

 
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Here we have the descendents of Konstantin Yaroslavich, who held the appanage principality of Galich - Dmitrov, given to him out of the Vladimir-Suzdal lands after 1238, by his father, Yaroslav II Vsyevolodovich, after the death of Yuri II Vsyevolodovich. Initially the principality consisted of the lands along the basin of the Galich lake and the town of Dmitrov and related volosts. It should not be confused with Galich in far western Galicia. This Galich is in the Volga River area. Then, in the mid 1300's a number of towns were added to the territory. In the 1330's the Galich principality began to decline. With the descendents of David Konstantinovich who died in 1280, the town of Dmitrov became an independent udel. About 1363 Dmitri Ivanovich Donskoi sent his own namestnik (governor) there and took Galich from Dmitrii Ivanovich and made it part of Moscow territory. In his will, Dmitrii Donskoi made it back into a udel and gave it along with Zvenigorod and Ruza to his son, Yuri Dmitriyevich. But in 1350 when Dmitrii Shemyaka fled to Novgorod during the prolonged war with Vasilii II, Galich was finished. From then on the Moscow government sometimes gave Galich as a 'kormlenie" that is feeding, to an official, but never with full governing powers. The Dmitrov principality was separated from Galich and given to Boris Davidovich. But in 1363 it was taken by Dmitrii Donskoi along with the rest. In 1389 most likely Vladimir Ivanovich Serpukhov ruled Dmitrov. Then Dmitrii' Donskoi's son, Peter had it.

 
     

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