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Principality of Beloozero
Origins
Beloozero, the White Lake, is mentioned in the Primary Chronicle under 862 as the seat of Rurik's brother Sineus, in the land of the Finnic Ves. Part of the Rostov lands, it became a separate appanage in 1238 for Gleb Vasilkovich, son of the Rostov prince killed by the Mongols.
Rule and society
The principality was a remote, thinly settled land of forests and lakes on the routes to the north, where furs, fish and salt were gathered. Its princes depended on Rostov, the grand princes of Vladimir and the Golden Horde. Prince Fyodor Romanovich and his son were killed fighting for Dmitry Donskoy at Kulikovo in 1380.
Decline and legacy
After their deaths Moscow took control, and in his will of 1389 Dmitry Donskoy left Beloozero to his son Andrei. In 1397 the monk Kirill founded the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery nearby, which became one of Russia's richest monasteries.
Few sources survive for this state; details are uncertain.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Principality of Beloozero. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/principality-of-beloozero
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