Rzhev

Rzhev is a metropolis in Tver Oblast, Russia, located forty nine kilometers southwest of Staritsa and 126 kilometers from Tver, at the dual carriageway and railway connecting Moscow and Riga. It is the uppermost city situated at the Volga River. Rzhev was based within the Middle Ages and opponents Toropets as the oldest town in the location. Rzhevians normally factor out that their town is noted within the Novgorod legal guidelines as early as 1019.

Their associates from Toropets, however, deliver more credence to Rzhev's first mention in a primary chronicle beneath 1216, while it become in possession of Mstislav the Bold, Prince of Toropets. The truth can be, it is clear that medieval Rzhev became bitterly contested through three regional powers—the Novgorod Republic, the Principality of Smolensk, and the Grand Principality of Vladimir-Suzdal. Following the Mongol invasion, Rzhev handed to a lateral branch of the Smolensk dynasty, which made the town its capital.

Later the princes divided the metropolis in parts, that are nonetheless known as the Prince-Dmitry's Side and Prince-Theodor's Side. In the mid-14th century, they'd a difficult time repelling attacks from Algirdas of Lithuania and Grand Princes of Tver, who offered all the villages across the town. Finally, they left for Moscow, wherein their descendants the Rzhevsky family have end up comedian characters of many a funny story.