Pinsk
Pinsk was a small principality in the Polesian marshes, centred on the town at the meeting of the Pina and Pripyat. By 1337 it was a Lithuanian fief ruled by the Gediminid prince Narimantas.
The local princely line died out in 1521. Queen Bona Sforza received Pinsk in 1523, and Hetman Konstanty Ostrogski defeated a Tatar raid nearby in 1527. King Stephen Báthory granted the town Magdeburg rights in 1581; later Cossack wars brought sack and massacre.
Characters
- Demid Vladimirovich of Pinsk
- Fyodor Vladimirovich of Pinsk
- Mikhail Vladimirovich of Pinsk
- Rostislav Sviatopolkovich of Pinsk
- Yaroslav Yurievich
- Yaroslav Yurievich of Pinsk
- Yuri Vladimirovich of Pinsk