Belyov

The city is located on the left bank of the Oka, 120 km from Tula. It was first mentioned, like Moscow, in the annals of 1147. In the XIII century the city falls under the rule of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. From the end of the XIV - beginning of the XV centuries to 1558 was the center of the specific Belevsky principality[1]. In 1439 at Belev there was a battle between the Tatar army under the command of Ulu-Muhammed and the Russian army, in which the Russian army suffered a crushing defeat. Attacks and robberies of the Crimean Tatars in Belev also occurred in 1512 and 1544. Since the second half of the XVI century, the Belevskaya fortress was part of the Zasechnaya line on the southern outskirts of Russia. Ivan the Terrible personally came to inspect the borders and visited the Belevsk fortress and the Transfiguration Monastery (built by specific princes during the time of Lithuanian rule). In Belev, already in the XVII century, a water pipe with wooden pipes was carried out on January 29 (February 9), 1783 in the village of Mishensky, Belevsky district, one of the largest Russian poets Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky was born. On February 11 (23), 1808, in the village of Dolbino near Belev, P.V. Kireevsky was born - a famous folklorist, archaeographer, writer, creator of the first national folklore collection. In 1828, in Belev, in a petty-bourgeois family, P. M. Martynov was born - a teacher, local historian, author of essays and articles on the history and culture of the Tula Territory. On May 4, 1829, during a trip to the Caucasus, A. S. Pushkin passed through Belev. On July 19-20, 1837, during a trip to Russia, the heir to the throne Tsarevich Alexander Nikolaevich, the future Emperor Alexander II, stayed in Belev. In June 1865 elects the path of the priest of the Resurrection Church of Belev Mikhail Fedoro, archpriest of the Resurrection Church, writer, local historian and public church figure. In 1874, in Belev, in a merchant family, P. G. Ignatov was born - a research geographer, head of expeditions to study the lakes of Western Siberia, Kazakhstan and Altai. In Belev in 1902 was born and until 1922 lived Sergey Petrovich Borodin - a famous Soviet writer, author of several historical novels. 1910-1912 - Belev period of life and work of writer Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin. December 16, 1937 in Belev was born the famous sculptor, member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts, Albert Serafimovich Charkin.