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Yaroslav I Vladimirovich [a] (c. 978 – 20 February 1054), better known as Yaroslav the Wise, [b] was Grand Prince of Kiev from 1019 until his death in 1054. [3] He was also earlier Prince of Novgorod from 1010 to 1034 and Prince of Rostov from 987 to 1010, uniting the principalities for a time. Yaroslav's baptismal name was George [c] after ...
According to the Primary Chronicle (PVL), Yaroslav was informed about the events in Kiev by his sister Predslava Volodimerovna. In the PVL in columns 135.27–136.1 (version A) and 140.25–141.1 (version B), Predslava informs her brother Yaroslav of their father Volodimer's death. [d] The two passages represent two differing versions of events.
The Battle of the River Bug, sometimes known as the Battle of Volhynia, took place on 22–23 July 1018, in Red Ruthenia, near the Bug River and near Volhynia (Wołyń), between the forces of Bolesław I the Brave of Poland and Yaroslav the Wise of Kievan Rus, during the Bolesław's Kiev Expedition. Yaroslav was defeated by the Polish duke.
Iziaslav succeeded his father, after Yaroslav's oldest child, Vladimir (the only child by Yaroslav's first wife), had predeceased his father. Iziaslav was one of the authors of the Pravda of Yaroslav's Descendants – a part of the first legal code of the Russkaya Pravda. [4] [5] He is also credited with the foundation of the Kiev Pechersk ...
Upon Vladimir's death, his son Sviatopolk I (later nicknamed "The Accursed") seized the throne and killed three of his brothers, Sviatoslav of Smolensk and the better-known Boris and Gleb, the first saints of the Rus' Orthodox Church. Sviatopolk was defeated by Yaroslav, who then challenged Mstislav for supremacy over Kiev.
The Battle of Liubech (1016) was a clash between the troops of Sviatopolk (prince of Kiev and Turov) and his brother Yaroslav (prince of Novgorod) near the town of Liubech (modern Chernihiv Oblast). It was part of the Kievan succession crisis of 1015–1019 that broke out between the brothers after the death of prince Volodimer I of Kiev (1015).
In 1068-1069, the Polovtsy penetrated the earthwork defensive lines built up over the years by Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich (r. ca. 980–1015) and his son, Yaroslav the Wise (r. 1019–1054). They were met by a combined army of Yaroslav’s sons: Grand Prince Iziaslav of Kiev and his brothers, Princes Sviatoslav Yaroslavich of Chernigov, and ...
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