The Trubeckoj Massacre in Mscislaŭ – Centuries Later
Journal: AREI
Year: 2023

The article is devoted to an episode in the 1654–1667 war between Muscovy and the ­Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: the capture of Mscislaŭ by the Tsarist army, accompanied by the mass murder of its defenders and inhabitants. On the basis of published sources and literature on the subject, the author has tried to trace the functioning of the tragic events in the memory of the local population, as well as show how the Trubeckoj Massacre is represented in the historiography of Belarus and Russia. T