Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei waahanga - Ko nga uri o Rostislav i whakahaere i te rangatiratanga tae noa ki te 1404. Tata ki te 1339, i uru te rangatiratanga ki raro i te mana o te Grand Duchy o Lithuania. He uaua te whanaungatanga. I te 1355, ka whakaekea e Algirdas, te Grand Duke o Lithuania, a Smolensk ka hopu i a Rzhev, Bely, Mstsislaw, Toropets. Ko nga Rangatira o Smolensk i anga atu ki te Grand Duchy o Moscow mo te hononga ki a Lithuania, engari i te tau 1368 i uru atu ki a Algirdas i tana pakanga ki Moscow
He aha? I whawhai a Smolensk i te taha o Moscow ki a Mikhail II o Tver i te 1372 <unk> 1374 me te Golden Horde i te Pakanga o Kulikovo (1380).