Zaroy

Zaroy was a town of the old Smolensk land, remembered in chronicles. It appears in a charter of Prince Rostislav Mstislavich in 1136. In 1154 Rostislav went to meet his uncle Yuri Dolgoruky near Zaroy, and the two princes made peace there. The town lay on the borders of Smolensk's territory, where relations between neighbouring principalities could turn from campaigning to negotiation.