Spassky Gorodensky Principality

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SPASSKY GORODENSKY PRINCIPATE was one of the Orekhovsky District's principalities in Votic fifth on the territory of Novgorod. In the 15th -17th centuries, the complete right bank of the Neva (including the Lakhta Region and Nevsky Settlement) and a part of the left bank where at the centre of the principality; Spasskoe village was situated in the area of present-day Smolny Cathedral, and was part of its structure. On the north, the principality bordered the Vozdvizhensky Korboselsky and Ilyinsky Keltushsky principalities; on the South, it bordered the Nikolsky Izhersky principality.

Reference: Семенцов С. В. К вопросу об особенностях заселения территорий Приневья в конце XV - начале XVI веков // Петербургские чтения-97. СПб., 1997. С. 92-117.

A. Y. Chistyakov, E. A. Bondarchuk, P. Y. Yudin. Семенцов С. В. К вопросу об особенностях заселения территорий Приневья в конце XV - начале XVI веков // Петербургские чтения-97. СПб., 1997 Cathedral of the Renewal of the Jerusalem Holy Resurrection Temple