Города и Герои - Смоленск. История - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

One of the first cities of Rus', Smolensk is mentioned in the annals as the center of the tribal union of the Slavs. The city is located in the upper Dnieper, the trade routes between Russia, the Baltic states, Belarus, and the countries of Europe converge here. The legendary path from the Varangians to the Greeks ran through these places. At different times, the city belonged to the Old Russian state, was the capital of the independent Smolensk principality, was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, the Commonwealth, the Russian Kingdom. In 1812, after a bloody battle, the city was captured by Napoleon. Then Smolensk was practically destroyed. Only the walls of the stone fortress survived, which in the Middle Ages, the architect of the White City in Moscow erected in the Middle Ages.