Book by V.N. Temushev, the first special work dedicated to the fate of the Gomel region, which found itself at the crossroads of the great principalities of Lithuania and Moscow, where there was a fierce struggle to assert their geopolitical interests. By the middle of the XV century. the lands of the Old Russian state were divided by Vilna and Moscow. At the end of the century, a struggle began to redistribute them. In a short time as a result of the wars of 148687-1494 and 1500-1503. Moscow possessions approached the territory of the modern Republic of Belarus. Its only region, which visited in 1500-1537. under Moscow rule, was Gomelshchina.