Popowa Gora

Popova Gora lies on the Besed in the wooded frontier country of the upper Dnieper basin. In 1503 the district passed from Lithuania to Moscow, and the settlement became a fortified border point alongside Drokov on the Iput. Records of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries place it amid wars between the Russian state and Lithuania or Poland. In 1607 the second False Dmitry crossed the Besed here during the Time of Troubles.