Knyazhoye

Knyazhoye, also known as Knyazhaya, is a village by the Malinovka in the Pronsk country. Local histories place its emergence among the settlements that grew as the district recovered from the devastation of the Mongol invasion. Nearby Pronsk was rebuilt and the surrounding countryside again filled with villages and cultivated land. The village's name, associated with a prince or princess, survives in several forms in local records and tradition.