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Birth:          1030 of Pereyaslavl, Kiev, Ukraine
Death:          13 Apr 1093 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vsevolod_I_of_Kiev
Vsevolod I Yaroslavich (Ukrainian: ???????? I ?????????, Old Norse: Vissivald), 
(1030 – 13 April 1093) ruled as Grand Prince of Kyiv from 1078 until his death.
Early life[edit]

He was the fifth[1] and favourite son of Yaroslav I the Wise by Ingigerd Olafsdottir. He 
was born around 1030.[2] On his seal from his last years, he was named "Andrei 
Vsevolodu" in Greek, implying that his baptismal name was Andrew.[3]

To back up an armistice signed with the Byzantine Empire in 1046, his father married 
him to Byzantine Anastasia (d. 1067), who tradition holds was a daughter of Emperor 
Constantine IX Monomachos by his second wife (he gained the Imperial throne through 
his third marriage), but no reliable source has ever been found to confirm this. 
However, the couple's son Vladimir Monomakh bore the family name of the 
Roman/Byzantine emperor, giving the story credence.

Upon his father's death in 1054, he received in appanage the towns of Pereyaslav,[4] 
Rostov, Suzdal, and the township of Beloozero which would remain in possession of 
his descendants until the end of Middle Ages. Together with his elder brothers Iziaslav 
and Sviatoslav he formed a sort of princely triumvirate which jointly waged war on the 
steppe nomads, polovtsy, and compiled the first East Slavic law code. In 1055 
Vsevolod launched an expedition against the Torks who had in the previous years 
expelled the Pechenegs from the Pontic steppes.[5] He also made peace with the 
Cumans who appeared for the first time in Europe in the same year.[5] The Cumans 
invaded his principality in 1061 and routed Vsevolod in a battle.[5] Vsevolod 
persuaded his brother, Iziaslav, and their distant cousin, Vseslav to join him and they 
together attacked the Torks in 1060.[5]

In 1067 Vsevolod's Greek wife died and he soon married a Kypchak princess, Anna. 
She brought him another son, who drowned after the Battle of the Stugna River, and 
two daughters, one becoming a nun and another, Eupraxia of Kiev, marrying Emperor 
Henry IV.

The Cumans again invaded Kievan Rus' in 1068.[6] The three brothers united their 
forces against them, but the Cumans routed them on the Alta River.[6] After their 
defeat, Vsevolod withdrew to Pereyaslav.[7] However, its citizens rose up in open 
rebellion, dethroned Iziaslav, and liberated and proclaimed Vseslav their grand 
prince.[8] Vsevolod and Sviatoslav made no attempt to expel the usurper from Kiev.[9]

Vsevolod supported Sviatoslav against Iziaslav.[10] They forced their brother to flee 
from Kiev in 1073.[10] Feodosy, the saintly hegumen or head of the Monastery of the 
Caves in Kiev remained loyal to Iziaslav, and refused to had a lunch with Sviatoslav 
and Vsevolod.[2]

Iziaslav granted Sviatoslav's former principality to Vsevolod, but Sviatoslav's sons 
considered the Principality of Chernigov as their own patrimony or otchina.[10] Oleg 
Sviatoslavich made an alliance with the Cumans and invaded Chernigov.[11] Iziaslav 
came to Vsevolod's rescue and they forced Oleg to retreat, but Iziaslav was murdered 
in the battle.[11][12]
Reign[edit]

After Iziaslav's death, Vsevolod, as their father's only surviving son, took the Kievan 
throne, thus uniting the three core principalities—Kiev, Chernigov and Pereyaslavl—in 
Kievan Rus'.[13] He appointed his eldest son, Vladimir Monomach to administer 
Chernigov.[14][12]

The Russian Primary Chronicle writes that the "people no longer had access to the 
Prince's justice, judges became corrupt and venal",[15] Vsevolod followed his young 
councilors' advice instead of that of his old retainers in his last years.[16]

Vsevolod spoke five foreign languages, according to Vladimir Monomach's 
Autobiography.[17] Historian George Vernadsky, these probably included Greek and 
Cuman, because of the nationality of his two wives, and he likely spoke Latin, Norse 
and Ossetian.[18] he lost most of his battles, his eldest son, Vladimir Monomakh, a 
grand and famous warrior, did most of the fighting for his father. The last years of his 
reign were clouded by grave illness, and Vladimir Monomakh presided over the 
government.

Children[edit]

Vsevolod and his first wife Anastasia (daughter of Constantine IX Monomachos) had 
only one known son:[19]
Vladimir II Monomakh (1053 – 19 May 1125).
Ianka or Anna Vsevolodovna (d. 3 November 1112) who was engaged to Constantine 
Dukas in 1074, but she never married[20] She became a nun and started a school for 
girls.[21]

Vsevolod and his second wife had five known children:
Rostislav Vsevolodovich (1070 – 26 May 1093). Drowned while retreating from the 
Battle of the Stugna River.
Eupraxia of Kiev (1071 – 20 July 1109). Married first Henry the Long, Margrave of 
Nordarm, next Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.[22]
Catherine Vsevolovna (d. 11 August 1108). A nun. Her date of death is recorded in 
the Primary Chronicle.
Maria Vsevolodovna (d. 1089).

Parents
WLADIMIROWWITSCH Jaroslaw (Jaroslav) (Yaroslav) I "the Wise" Mudry ( 980 - 20 Feb 1054)
OLAFSDOTTIR Ingegerd (Ingegreda) (1001 - 10 Feb 1050)

Siblings
YAROSLAVNA Anastasiya Agmunda (1022 - AFT 1074)
YAROSLAVICH Isjarlaw (Isiaslaw) Izyaslav I Dmitrij (1025 - 3 Oct 1078)
YAROLAVOVIC Vsevolod I (Wsewolod) (1030 - 13 Apr 1093)
YAROSLAVNA Anna Agnesa (1036 - 1075)

Marriage To MONAMACHA Anastasia (ABT 1032 - Nov 1067)
    m. 1046 

Notes

Parents
MONOMACHOS Konstantinos (Constantine) (ABT 1000 - 11 Jan 1055)
SKLERAINA Helena (ABT 1000 - )

Children by MONAMACHA Anastasia ABT 1032 - Nov 1067
____ Wladimir (Vladimir) II "Monamachos (1053 - 19 May 1125)

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