SMOLENSK (Part Two)
A condition forwarded by Sigismund in negotiations with the Great Embassy that arrived from Moscow was unconditional surrender of Smolensk....
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Smolensk – is the administrative center of the Smolensk region of the Russian Federation, an important industrial and cultural...
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A small Vladimir city of Yuriev Polsky was founded and named in his honor in 1152 by Prince Yuri Dolgoruky. In XII-XIV centuries Yuriev was...
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In 1158, Prince Andrei the Pious, Yuri Dolgoruki’s son, made Vladimir upon Klyazma – a city founded 50 years before that by Vladimir...
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At the time of the reign of Grand Prince of Vladimir Vsevolod the Big Nest, Vladimir-Suzdal Princedom was in the zenith of its glory....
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