Demensk

Demensk lies in the wooded uplands between the Dnieper and Oka basins. The Demena district appears in the Lithuanian records of 1446 among lands granted by Grand Duke Casimir to Prince Fyodor Vorotynsky. Under the truce of 1503 it passed to Moscow, and Ivan III later left it to his son Yuri. The village of Spasskoye belonged to the Demena palace district in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.