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He was the fourth son of
Mikhail Vsyevolodovich, appanage prince of
Chernigiv. He became appanage prince of Taruss. His sons were
Vsyevolod, appanage prince of Taruss;
Konstantin, appanage prince of Obolensk; and
Ivan appanage prince of Volkonsk. They are shown in
this family chart.
The capital of the Tarusski udel was the town, Tarusa. The date on which this
udel was created is not clear. The town itself was first mentioned in the
chronicles in 1215, when it came into the organization of the Chernigov-seversk
lands. In 1246 after Mikhail Vsyevolodovich died at the Horde, Tarusa was
divided from the Chernigiv principality, and made into an independent udel. It
was given to Yurii Mikhailovich. In the 14th century the Tarusski udel began to
be divided into a series of smaller polities. But the Taruss princes governed
their votchina up to 1392 when it was united into the Moscow principality by
Vasilii I Dmitriyevich. In the middle 16th century the Moscow prince gave the
Taruss land to Bogdan to govern but then reunited it with Moscow. The udels
carved from Taruss are mentioned in the sections on their princes, Obolenski,
Meshevski, Baryatinski, Trostyenski and Volkonski.
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