Mstislavl

Who holds it

Name

Mstislav Romanovich (as prince of Smolensk)

Title

prince

Since

1180 as appanage prince; joined to Smolensk 1197

Family

see Mstislav of Smolensk

Confidence

high

ru.wikipedia (Мстиславль)

Lord in 1200

Mstislav Romanovich, prince of Smolensk, through his governor.

How things stand that morning

Smolensk's, under the prince.

Council

Not recorded.

Communities

Townsmen of the Smolensk land.

Militia

Not recorded.

Walls and castle

Detinets with ditch and ramparts, outer town (ru.wikipedia).

Trade and crafts

Local market on the Vikhra.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: ru.wikipedia gives the appanage years.

Primary sources for Smolensk

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• The Chronicle of Novgorod (kept year by year; the Synodal manuscript written in the 13th and 14th centuries). Novgorod's own record, kept at St Sophia. Read online
• The Hypatian Chronicle (the Kievan Chronicle compiled about 1200 at the Vydubichi monastery; the Galician-Volhynian Chronicle in the 13th century). The southern record. Read online
• The Laurentian Chronicle (the Suzdal continuation kept in the late 12th and 13th centuries; manuscript 1377). The court record of Vsevolod III of Vladimir. Read online
• The birch-bark letters (11th to 15th centuries). Excavated letters and notes on birch bark, dated by the layer they lie in. Read online
• The Tale of Igor's Campaign (about 1187 to 1200 (disputed)). A poem on Igor Sviatoslavich's defeat by the Polovtsians in 1185 that addresses the princes of the day by name: Vsevolod of Vladimir, Rurik and David Rostislavich, Yaroslav of Galich, Roman of Volhynia and the Olgovichi of Chernigov, of whom Igor himself was prince from 1198. Read online