Toropets

Toropets was a Rurikid principality on the upper Western Dvina. Mstislav the Brave made the town his seat around 1167; by the fourteenth century it was a Lithuanian vassal.

Lithuania annexed Toropets in 1355. Ivan III took it after the Battle of Vedrosha, and the war with Lithuania ended in 1503. In the early seventeenth century Polish armies sacked the town during the Time of Troubles.