Like the family
of Ostrozki’s Koretski’s led their
origin from the son of the great Lithuanian prince Gedimin-Narimunt. In XIV century the
Koretski’s arrived to Volyn, where they owned small town Korets. Soon through that town
the brisk trade way went from Moldova to Moscow (it passed also through
Bratslav and Vinnitsa), which brought a
stable income to princes Koretski’s. Not without reason in 1566 the owners of Korets
flatly refused to establish in the city a state customs house. The destiny of the prince
Bogush Fedorovich Koretski, the governor of Bratslava and Vinnitsa is closely connected
with Vinnitsa in 1548-1576. He has come into the history of this city as the last
Orthodoxy Head, who has done much for the prosperity and strengthening of Vinnitsa. In
archives there are documents, which testify to economic activity of the prince Bogush,
construction of churches, differentiation of urban grounds and so on. It is necessary to
note, that the inheritance, left to Koretskiy by his predecessor on the post of Head Fedor Sangushko, was not very easy. The audit, carried
out in 1545, of the Vinnitsa castle showed
its actual inability to protect the territory and the population from hostile attacks. All
this required the immediate decision, and prince Koretskiy managed in the shortest terms
to repair the walls of a fortress, to update an arsenal, to collect new divisions of the
military men 
- draby. Just Bogush Fedorovich had the idea
about transferring the castle on Kemp island, in connection with expansion of urban
territory. In some years this idea was realized by another Head - Valentiy Kalinovski. Bogush Koretskiy planned to give
the post of the Head of Vinnitsa to his son Ukhim (on this account he made the appropriate
order), however after the death of prince Bogush the situation radically changed. Vinnitsa
government was handed to Uriy Strus, and the Koretski’s were to be satisfied by several
small castles (Dasheve, Lintsi etc) on Bratslavshchina. At the beginning of XVII century
the considerable popularity was achieved by Samuil Koretskiy, who bravely struggled
against Turkish army. In "Ostrozkiy chronicler"' in 1616 there is a story about
capturing of the prince Koretskiy by Turks. For the second time he became a Turkish
prisoner near Cecora in 1620 and soon was killed.
