Kostroma

Kostroma is a ancient city and the workplace of Kostroma Oblast, Russia. The metropolis was first recorded inside the chronicles for the year 1213, but historians consider it can were based by Yury Dolgoruky greater than half a century earlier, in 1152. Since many scholars agree with that early Eastern Slavs tribes arrived in modern-day-day Belarus, Ukraine and western Russia 400 to 600 AD, Kostroma will be a good deal older than previously notion. The city shares the equal call because the East Slavic goddess Kostroma.

Like other cities of the Eastern Rus, Kostroma turned into sacked by means of the Mongols in 1238. It then constituted a small principality, under management of Prince Vasily the Drunkard, a more youthful brother of the famous Alexander Nevsky. Upon inheriting the grand ducal title in 1271, Vasily failed to depart the city for Vladimir, and his descendants ruled Kostroma for any other half of a century, till the town become offered by way of Ivan I of Moscow. As one of the northernmost cities of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Kostroma served for grand dukes as a place of retreat while enemies besieged Moscow in 1382, 1408, and 1433. In 1375, the city changed into looted by using Novgorod pirates.