Knyazhichi

Knyazhichi stands on the right bank of the Sudost, a river of the Desna basin west of Bryansk. The village is mentioned in the fifteenth century in connection with its seizure by Prince Ivan of Mozhaisk. A parish is known here from the early seventeenth century. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Knyazhichi belonged to the Podgorodny district of Bryansk, while its lands passed through the hands of several noble families.