Vertyazin

Vertyazin stood on the right bank of the Volga southeast of Tver, at the site later called Gorodnya. Mentioned in connection with a peace agreement made by Mikhail of Tver in 1312, it guarded the river approaches to the principality. In 1412 Prince Alexander Ivanovich of Tver rebuilt the settlement as Goroden and brought inhabitants from Tver and Kashin. After the fall of Tver in 1485 the town passed, with the other lands of the principality, to Ivan the Young, son of Moscow's Ivan III.