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UGLICH

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 563 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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UGLICH  , a

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town of Russia, in the government of Yaroslavl, on the upper Volga, 63 m . W. by S. of the. city of Yaroslavl . Pop., 9698 . Its
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historical remains are mostly associated with Prince Dmitri, son of
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Ivan the Terrible, who was believed to have been murdered (1591) here by Boris Godunov . The wooden house (built in 1481, restored in 1892) which the prince occupied, a church of St
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Demetrius, erected at the spot where he was killed,563 and a kiosk on the site of a convent where his
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mother was forcibly consecrated a nun, are the
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principal memorials of this incident . The
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cathedral was erected in the 13th century, but subsequently restored, and contains the
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grave of Prince
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Roman . The
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industries include paper-mills,
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flour-mills, distilleries, copper
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works, and
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linen factories; and the samovars (tea-urns) and sausages made here are famous . The
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local annals go as far back as the 9th century . Until the 14th century Uglich was a
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separate principality, which extended over eastern
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Tver . In 1329 the sons of Prince Roman the Saint renounced their independence in favour of Moscow, and fifty years later the Uglich princes sold their rights to the
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great prince of Moscow . The Tatars plundered the town in 1237, 1293 and 1408, and the
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Lithuanians did the same at a later date .

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