Tarusa
Tarusa was an Upper Oka principality centered on the town of Tarusa. It arose as an appanage of Yury Mikhailovich, son of Prince Mikhail of Chernigov, and was ruled in 1337 by Prince Constantine.
Its princes divided their inheritance into smaller holdings, including Obolensk, and from the 1350s leaned on Moscow. Moscow annexed Tarusa in 1392, after which its princely lines entered Muscovite service. In 1503 Ivan III included the fortified border town among the lands he bequeathed to his son Vasily.
Characters
- Andrei Konstantinovich Obolensky
- Ivan Konstantinovich Obolensky
- Konstantin Yuryevich of Obolensk
- Semyon Konstantinovich Obolensky
- Yury of Tarusa