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Principality of Yaroslavl
Origins
Yaroslavl was founded in the early 11th century by Yaroslav the Wise at the meeting of the Volga and the Kotorosl; a legend has him killing a bear there. In 1218 Konstantin Vsevolodovich of Rostov gave it to his son Vsevolod, who founded a separate princely line.
Rule and society
Its position on the Volga made Yaroslavl a trading town. Vsevolod was killed fighting the Mongols on the Sit in 1238. Fyodor the Black, who ruled from the 1260s, spent years at the court of the Golden Horde, married a daughter of the khan and was later venerated as a saint. The principality later split into many small appanages.
Decline and legacy
Its princes increasingly served the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and in 1463 Ivan III annexed the principality. The Yaroslavl princes survived as noble families such as the Shakhovskoy and Kurbsky. The city became one of Russia's richest commercial centres in the 17th century.
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- Principality of Yaroslavl paid tribute to Golden Horde1243 CE – 1463 CE
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