Dmitrov

Dmitrov was a Rus’ principality centred on the town north of Moscow. In 1337 Dmitry Borisovich, a descendant of the princes of Vladimir, held it.

In 1360 Dmitry took Galich with Golden Horde backing, while Dmitrov passed to Moscow by 1364. It became a Muscovite appanage: Vladimir the Bold received it in 1372, and Tokhtamysh burned the town in 1382. Ivan the Terrible abolished the appanage in 1569, among the last in Rus’.