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Rogvolod-Boris, Prince of Drutsk; There has been some discussion whether Vseslav had six or rather seven sons. Some historians (L.Alekseev and Vasily Tatishchev) believe that Boris was the baptism name of Rogvolod, and thus they were one and the same person. Davyd, Prince of Polotsk, Sviatoslav, Prince of Vitebsk; Rostislav, possibly Prince of ...
Cathedral of Holy Wisdom in Polotsk. The Cathedral of Holy Wisdom (Belarusian: Полацкі Сафійскі сабор, romanized: Polacki Safijski sabor) was a cathedral in Polotsk that was built by Prince Vseslav Briacheslavich (1044–1101) between 1044 (first mentioned in the Voskresenskaia Chronicle under the year 1056) and 1066.
Reigned three times, threatened by the power of his relatives Vseslav of Polotsk (1068–69) and Sviatoslav II of Kyiv (1073–76). First ruler titled King of Rus' , as Pope Gregory VII sent him a crown from Rome in 1075. Vseslav II the Seer Vseslav Basil Bryacheslavich (Всеслав Брячиславич) c.1039 Polotsk Son of Briacheslav I
The chronicle reports that he arrived at Polotsk "from overseas", a routine phrase to designate Varangians. Rogvolod was an active player in the power struggle in Rus'. In 972, after the prince of Kiev, Sviatoslav I, died, there was a power struggle between his two sons: prince of Novgorod Vladimir and prince of Kiev Yaropolk. Both had hoped ...
In turn, the prince of Polotsk, Vseslav of Polotsk, who had driven Iziaslav out of Kiev, gathered an army not to be despised, consisting of Ruthenians, Pechenegs and Varangians to fight against the Polish king. But when he was about to threaten King Bolesław's path to further Rus lands, he met him near Białogród, and when he saw the mighty ...
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Bryachislav Iziaslavich was born in Polotsk. Either upon his father's death in 1001 or his minor brother Vseslav's in 1003, he inherited the Principality of Polotsk, himself being a child at this time (his grandparents married about 978). Under his rule, Polotsk attempted to distance itself from Kiev.