Uglich

Uglich was a Volga town and the seat of a small Rurikid principality. Its princes sold their rights to Ivan I Kalita of Moscow in 1328, making it a Muscovite appanage by 1337.

In 1462 Ivan III granted Uglich to his brother Andrey Bolshoy, under whom a red-brick prince’s palace was built in 1481. Local craftsmen built a wooden fortress shipped down the Volga for the siege of Kazan in 1552. The young Tsarevich Dmitry died at Uglich in 1591, a death that helped trigger the Time of Troubles.