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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] Feodosy, the saintly hegumen or head of the Monastery of the Caves in Kiev remained loyal to Iziaslav, and refused lunch with Sviatoslav and Vsevolod. [3]
Anna Vsevolodovna of Kiev, also called Yanka or Ianka (died 3 November 1112), was a princess of Kievan Rus', known for having introduced schools for girls in Kievan Rus'. She is one of the six women mentioned by their full personal names in the Primary Chronicle (PVL). [1] She was the daughter of Vsevolod I of Kiev and Anastasia.
Yaroslav was the fourth son of Vsevolod the Big Nest and Maria Shvarnovna.. In 1200, he was sent by his father to rule the town of Pereiaslav near the Kypchak steppes. Six years later, he was summoned by boyars of Halych to rule their city but could not effectively claim the throne.
A daughter of a Cuman khan, she married Vsevolod I in 1068. In connection to the wedding, she converted from her original faith, Tengrism, to Christianity, and was given the name Anna. When she was widowed in 1093, she stayed in Kiev. In 1097, her stepson Vladimir Monomakh besieged Sviatoslav Iziaslavych in Kiev.
He was the second son of prince Vsevolod II Olgovich of Chernigov (who later became Grand Prince of Kiev) and Maria Mstislavna of Kiev (a daughter of grand prince Mstislav I Vladimirovich of Kiev). His father died on August 1, 1146. He began his political career as the prince of Ropesk (a town, located southwest of Starodub). [2]
Vsevolod was the tenth or eleventh son of Yuri Dolgoruky (c. 1099 – 1157), who founded the town Dmitrov to commemorate the site of Vsevolod's birth. Nikolai Karamzin (1766 – 1826) initiated the speculation identifying Vsevolod's mother Helene as a Greek princess, because after her husband's death she took Vsevolod with her to Constantinople.
He was the son of Vsevolod II Olgovich. [1] He succeeded in taking the Kievan throne from Yaroslav II, and ruled Kiev alongside Rurik Rostislavich until his death. The co-princedom did not go smoothly and there were disagreements between Sviatoslav and Rurik, [4] until Sviatoslav was taken ill and died on 27 July 1194. [5]
Yaropolk appointed Vsevolod Mstislavich, prince of Novgorod, to the principality of Pereyaslavl – in this era designated heir to the Kievan throne [15] – thus provoking Yaropolk's younger brother Yuri Dolgoruki, controller of Suzdal, into war. Yuri drove out Vsevolod, whom Yaropolk then replaced with Izyaslav.