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St. Euphrosyne of Polotsk is sometimes said to be Vseslav's daughter, although her date of birth is given as 1120, two decades after Vseslav's death and thus she could not be his child; other sources, however, say she was the daughter of Sviatoslav Vseslavich, and thus a granddaughter of Vseslav. She founded a number of monasteries in Polotsk ...
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Iziaslav set off with Polish soldiers during the Polish king's stay in Kiev against the prince of Polotsk, Vseslav, but Vseslav, fearing the power of Iziaslav and the Poles, fled. Iziaslav, in turn, having captured the castle of Polotsk and the surrounding area, settled his son Mstislav there, and when he died within a few days, he put his ...
The name of Iziaslav's spouse is unknown. He had two sons: Bryachislav of Polotsk and Vseslav. Both were certainly minor at the time of his father's death. Vseslav died, still in childhood, in 1003, while Bryachislav survived to continue the Polotsk dynasty and to challenge the authority of his uncle Yaroslav the Wise.
However, its citizens rose up in open rebellion, dethroned Iziaslav, and liberated and proclaimed Vseslav their grand prince. [10] Vsevolod and Sviatoslav made no attempt to expel the usurper from Kiev. [11] Vsevolod supported Sviatoslav against Iziaslav. [12] They forced their brother to flee from Kiev in 1073. [12]
In 1065, their cousin Vseslav, who was the prince of Polotsk, besieged Pskov, but was defeated. In the winter of 1066–1067, he also attacked Novgorod. The prince of Novgorod at the time was Iziaslav's son Mstislav, who fled for Kiev. In response, the triumvirate marched up to take out Vseslav.
Even far from Ukraine's front lines, military funerals set off waves of mourning. 'You can't see an end to it,' one chaplain says as the war drags on. In Ukraine, a harvest of death as bodies of ...
In 1015 he inherited the city of Lutsk after the death of his grandfather Vladimir I of Kiev. 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).