Toropets

Who holds it

Name

probably Mstislav Mstislavich; not pinned

Title

prince of Toropets

Since

not pinned

Family

see Toropets (Mstislavichi)

Confidence

low

ru.wikipedia (Торопец)

Lord in 1200

The Mstislavichi (see Toropets (Mstislavichi)); which brother sits there that winter is not pinned.

How things stand that morning

Held by the Mstislavichi.

Council

Not recorded.

Communities

Townsmen of the Smolensk land.

Militia

The prince's men and the townsmen.

Walls and castle

Ramparts of earth and timber (the Small and Great gorodishche); the later 'Red Rampart' kremlin is 16th-17th century.

Trade and crafts

Portage trade between the Daugava and the Lovat; furs.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: The prince of 1200 is an inference.

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