Prince Izyaslav I. Izyaslav Mstislavich, Grand Duke of Kiev: years of life and reign of Izyaslav Yaroslavich events
Izyaslav (baptized Dimitri) was born in 1024. Reign: 1054-1078
His father is the Grand Duke of Kiev Yaroslav the Wise, his mother is the Swedish princess Ingegerda (baptized Irina). During his father’s life, Izyaslav received the Turov land, and after the death of his elder brother Vladimir in 1052 he became the Prince of Novgorod.
In 1054, according to his father’s will, Izyaslav received the great reign of Kiev, and his son Mstislav received Novgorod.
The reign of Izyaslav Yaroslavich took place in alliance with his brothers - Prince Svyatoslav of Chernigov and Prince Vsevolod of Pereyaslavl. They revised the “Russian Truth” and adopted the “Pravda of the Yaroslavichs”, established separate metropolises in the principalities. Historians called their system the Yaroslavich triumvirate. Also brothers together in 1055 and 1060. defeated the Torks.
In 1064, Prince Izyaslav Yaroslavich repelled the Polovtsian invasion. In 1067, the Kiev prince and his brothers ravaged the city of Minsk in retaliation for the robbery of Novgorod by Vseslav Bryachislavich, the prince of Polotsk. And in the same year, during peace negotiations, Vseslav was captured and imprisoned in a Kyiv prison.
In 1068, the Yaroslavich brothers were defeated by the Polovtsians on the river. Alte. The refusal of Izyaslav I Yaroslavich to issue weapons to the people of Kiev for protection from the Polovtsians caused a popular uprising against him. The people of Kiev freed Vseslav Bryachislavich and proclaimed him their prince, and Izyaslav Yaroslavich was forced to flee to Poland to ask for help from his nephew, Prince Boleslav II.
In 1069, Izyaslav I Yaroslavich returned to Kyiv with a Polish army and regained his throne, inflicting reprisals on those responsible for his exile.
In 1073, the younger brothers, Svyatoslav and Vsevolod, entered into a conspiracy against the Kyiv prince Izyaslav, as a result of which in 1075 Izyaslav again fled to Poland, and Svyatoslav of Chernigov seized the Kiev throne.
But Izyaslav I Yaroslavich was expelled from Poland as well. The Polish prince entered into an alliance with Svyatoslav and Vsevolod. Then Izyaslav went to Germany for help from Emperor Henry IV, but there he was refused.
Izyaslav's wanderings ended in 1076, when Svyatoslav Yaroslavich suddenly died, and he regained power. And Vsevolod, having made peace with his brother, retired to Chernigov in 1077.
In 1078, their nephews, the Tmutarakan prince Oleg Svyatoslavich and the rogue prince Boris Vyacheslavich, rebelled against Izyaslav and Vsevolod Yaroslavich. In the battle on Nezhatenaya Niva for the Principality of Chernigov, Oleg fled and Boris was killed. The Yaroslavichs won, but Izyaslav died from his wound. The death of Izyaslav and Boris is mentioned in “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign.”
Izyaslav I Yaroslavich was buried in the Hagia Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv.
During the reign of Izyaslav, the Dimitrovsky Monastery was built in Kyiv, and land was allocated for the Kiev Pechersky Monastery.
Prince Izyaslav was married to the daughter of the Polish king Mieszko II Lambert, Gertrude (baptized Helen).
Children: Yaropolk (Prince of Volyn and Turov), Svyatopolk II Izyaslavich (Prince of Polotsk, Novgorod, Turov, and then the Great of Kiev), Mstislav (Prince of Novgorod).
Izyaslav I Yaroslavich photograph
Father - Grand Duke of Kiev Yaroslav I Vladimirovich (Izyaslav is his eldest son).
Mother - Yaroslav's wife, Swedish princess Ingigerda (baptized Irina).
Izyaslav I Yaroslavich was born in 1024. He received the Great Reign of Kiev according to his father’s will, immediately after his death in 1054. Then, in accordance with the will of his father, he divided the lands with his brothers: Svyatoslav II Yaroslavich, Prince of Chernigov, who received Tmutarakan, Ryazan, Mur and the lands of the Vyatichi; Vsevolod I Yaroslavich, Prince of Pereyaslavsky, who received Rostov, Suzdal, Beloozero and the Volga region, and Igor Yaroslavich, who received Vladimir.
The first ten years of Izyaslav's reign can be called relatively calm, at least they were not overshadowed by any internal strife.
Relations with external neighbors were somewhat worse. Izyaslav went on a campaign against the Latvians and Golyads; both trips were successful.
In 1061, the Cumans, steppe nomads who appeared on the southeastern borders of Rus' and ousted the Pechenegs from these places back in 1055, first attacked the territories that belonged to Kievan Rus and defeated the army of Vsevolod I Yaroslavich, Prince of Pereyaslav, brother of Izyaslav. From that time on, raids were repeated constantly, bringing devastation to Rus'.
N.M. Karamzin wrote that until this time. (Karamzin N.M. Decree. Op. T. 2. P. 42.)
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But this idyll did not last long and ended in another civil strife. The instigator of the unrest was Vseslav, Prince of Polotsk. His grandfather Izyaslav Vladimirovich was the eldest son of Vladimir I Svyatoslavich. Thus, Vseslav was the great-grandson of the Grand Duke of Kyiv Vladimir and believed that he had the legal right to claim the reign of Kiev. In 1067, Vseslav captured and plundered Novgorod, which was the legal possession of Izyaslav. Prince Izyaslav called on his brothers for help, and together they went to war against Vseslav. The battle took place on the banks of the Neman; the victory remained with the brothers, but Prince Vseslav himself escaped. Izyaslav entered into negotiations with the rebellious prince Vseslav: swearing that he would not cause him any harm, he invited him to his tent. And, as has already happened in Russian history, as soon as Vseslav entered Izyaslav’s tent, he and his two sons were immediately captured and sent to a Kyiv prison.
In 1068, during another Polovtsian raid, the army of Izyaslav and his brothers was defeated on the banks of the Alta River. Grand Duke Izyaslav with the remnants of the army returned to Kyiv. His warriors took their defeat seriously: they wanted to fight and demanded (very disrespectfully, it must be said) that the prince provide them with weapons and horses. Izyaslav was outraged and offended (not so much by the demand itself, but by the impudence and even, in his opinion, the impudence with which this was done). As a result, he refused to give anything away. The refusal sparked a riot. First of all, the rebels freed Prince Vseslav of Polotsk from prison and proclaimed him. Izyaslav was forced to flee Kyiv.
Prince Izyaslav went to Poland, where he was well received, since Poland at that time was ruled by King Boleslav II of Poland, the son of Princess Maria, daughter of Grand Duke Vladimir and, therefore, a close relative of Izyaslav.
In 1069, Izyaslav, together with Boleslav II and the Polish army, returned to Rus'. They reached Belgorod unhindered and only then Vseslav came out with troops from Kyiv to meet them. But he did not want to fight, perhaps fearing the superior forces of the enemy or not hoping for the loyalty of the Kievites. Therefore, one fine night he took off and went to his home in Polotsk, leaving his army to the mercy of fate. The people of Kiev also had no choice but to return back to Kyiv.
Naturally, they (the Kyivians) feared the wrath of the legitimate prince, whom they drove out of the city in the most disrespectful manner, and even more they feared the Poles, who already had the opportunity to rule in Kiev back in the time of Yaroslav, Izyaslav’s father. Therefore, the people of Kiev turned to Izyaslav’s brothers Svyatoslav and Vsevolod for intercession, saying that they would admit their guilt before the Grand Duke and would be glad to see him again in Kyiv, but only if he came with. Svyatoslav and Vsevolod acted as intermediaries, and as a result, Izyaslav reigned again in Kyiv.
First of all, Izyaslav hastened to take revenge on Vseslav and took Polotsk by storm. Vseslav, in turn, tried to capture Novgorod, but failed. This senseless war continued for some time with varying success, and Izyaslav’s sons also took an active part in it. As a result, Vseslav managed to regain Polotsk.
At this very time (1071), when the Grand Duke of Kiev was busy with revenge, the Polovtsy, without any obstacle, plundered the villages located along the banks of the Desna. N.M. Karamzin wrote that. (Karamzin N.M. Decree. Op. T. 2. P. 46.) But this friendship did not last long. Svyatoslav, Prince of Chernigov, apparently was tired of being content with little. In any case, he proved to Vsevolod that their elder brother Izyaslav was conspiring against them with Vseslav of Polotsk behind their backs. These explanations seemed sufficient to Vsevolod, and he united with Svyatoslav against Izyaslav.
In 1073, frightened by this, Izyaslav again fled to Poland.
This time Boleslav II was in no hurry to help him.
Izyaslav went further to the German Emperor Henry IV in Mainz. Henry, it seems, was happy to help and even sent an ambassador to Kyiv demanding the return of the throne to the rightful prince and threatening to start a war otherwise. But, on the one hand, Svyatoslav, who seized power in Kiev, gave such gifts to the ambassador and the emperor himself that both were completely delighted, and on the other hand, Henry simply had no real opportunity to send an army to Rus': it was too far, and even his own The German sovereign had enough of his own problems. Izyaslav, however, did not stop there and asked for intercession from the Pope himself, and in return he was ready to accept the Latin faith and even the temporal power of the pope.
Pope Gregory VII, famous for his power-hungry ambitions, was very interested and wrote a formal letter to the Polish king Boleslaw II with a request, or rather an order, to support Izyaslav.
But Izyaslav did not need the patronage of the Pope: in 1076, his brother Svyatoslav died, who actually kicked him out of Kyiv. Izyaslav with a small number of Poles (according to the chronicler, there were several thousand of them) returned to Rus'. He met his surviving brother Vsevolod in Volhynia in 1077. Vsevolod proposed to make peace, which was done.
So Izyaslav returned to Kyiv, and his brother Vsevolod became the Prince of Chernigov. But Izyaslav’s reign this time was short-lived.
The internecine turmoil continued: the next generation of princes, Izyaslav’s nephews, did not want to wait until the older generation simply grew old and died, and they also sought power.
In 1078, Prince Oleg Svyatoslavich, the son of Svyatoslav II Yaroslavich, together with Boris Vyacheslavich, hired the Polovtsians, crossed the borders of the Chernigov principality and defeated Vsevolod's troops. Vsevolod fled to Kyiv to Izyaslav. Izyaslav hastened to come to the aid of his brother, equipped troops and went to Chernigov. The battle took place under the walls of Chernigov. Grand Duke Izyaslav died in it.
Izyaslav made an addition to the collection of civil laws introduced by his father Yaroslav. This addition has a name. In accordance with it, the death penalty was abolished in Rus'.
During the reign of Izyaslav, the famous Kiev-Pechersk Monastery was founded, which is still in operation today.
The chronicler Nestor wrote that Izyaslav was. (Quoted from: Karamzin N.M. Decree. Op. T. 2. P. 52.)
To this N.M. Karamzin noted that. (Karamzin N.M. Decree. Op. T. 2. P. 52.)
Wife: Princess Mieczysława of Poland, second sister of the Polish King Casimir.
Children: Mstislav, Mikhail, Yaropolk and Yuri.
IZYASLAV YAROSLAVICH(baptized Dmitry) (1024-03.10.1078) - Prince of Kiev from 1054
The second son of the Kyiv prince Yaroslav the Wise and Irina (Ingigerd) - the daughter of the Swedish king Olaf. He reigned in Turov. In 1039 he married the sister of the Polish king Casimir I, Gertrude, who took the name Helen in Orthodoxy. After the death of his father in 1054, he became the prince of Kyiv.
In the first years of his reign, he acted in close alliance with his younger brothers - Prince Svyatoslav of Chernigov and Prince Vsevolod of Pereyaslavl. In 1058 he made a campaign against the Golyad tribe. In 1060, together with his brothers and the Polotsk prince Vseslav Bryachislavich, he defeated the Torks. In 1064, he repelled the Polovtsian invasion near the city of Snovsk. In the winter of 1067, taking revenge on Vseslav Bryachislavich for the robbery of Novgorod, in alliance with his brothers he ruined the city of Minsk. March 3, 1067 in the battle on the river. The Nemiga Yaroslavichs defeated Vseslav himself, and in July of the same year, during peace negotiations near Smolensk, breaking the oath given to the Prince of Polotsk, captured him and imprisoned him in Kyiv.
In September 1068, the Yaroslavichs were defeated by the Polovtsians on the river. Alta. Izyaslav Yaroslavich fled to Kyiv, where he refused the demands of the townspeople to distribute weapons to them and lead a new militia to fight the Polovtsians. On September 15, an uprising began in Kyiv, Izyaslav was expelled from Kyiv and fled to Poland. The Polotsk prince Vseslav Bryachislavich, released from prison, was put in his place. In May 1069, with the support of his relative, the Polish king Boleslav II, Izyaslav Yaroslavich returned to Kyiv. Before entering the city, he promised his brothers and the people of Kiev not to take revenge on the inhabitants of the Kyiv land for his exile; he sent his son Mstislav ahead of him, who executed 70 people and blinded many. The oppression by Izyaslav Yaroslavich continued after his return to the Kiev throne. Dissatisfied Kiev residents began to beat the Poles who came with Izyaslav.
In the same year, Izyaslav expelled Vseslav from Polotsk and installed his son Mstislav as prince there. In 1072, he, together with the brothers Svyatoslav and Vsevolod, participated in the solemn transfer of the relics of Sts. Boris and Gleb to the new church in Vyshgorod. During the reign of Izyaslav, the “Truth of the Yaroslavichs” was also compiled.
In March 1073, Izyaslav Yaroslavich was again expelled from Kyiv, this time by the brothers Svyatoslav and Vsevolod, who accused him of conspiring with Vseslav of Polotsk, and again fled to Poland, where he unsuccessfully sought support from King Boleslav II, who preferred an alliance with the new Kyiv Prince Svyatoslav Yaroslavich. In the beginning. In 1075, Izyaslav Yaroslavich, expelled from Poland, turned to the German king Henry IV for help. The king limited himself to sending an embassy to Rus' to Svyatoslav Yaroslavich with a demand to return the Kiev table to Izyaslav.
Having received expensive gifts from Svyatoslav, Henry IV refused further interference in Kyiv affairs. Without waiting for the return of the German embassy from Kyiv, Izyaslav Yaroslavich in the spring of 1075 sent his son Yarogyulko Izyaslavich to Rome to Pope Gregory VII, offering him to accept Rus' under the protection of the papal throne, i.e. convert her to Catholicism. The Pope turned to the Polish king Boleslav II with an urgent request to help Izyaslav. Boleslav hesitated, and only in July 1077, after the death of Svyatoslav Yaroslavich, with the support of Polish forces, Izyaslav Yaroslavich returned to the Kiev table. A year later, he died in battle on Nezhatina Niva, fighting on the side of his brother Vsevolod Yaroslavich against his nephews, princes Oleg Svyatoslavich and Boris Vyacheslavich, who captured Chernigov.
Izyaslav inherited Kyiv from his father, along with the title of Grand Duke, and even earlier Novgorod and Turov were given to him. Chernigov and Pereyaslav, which went to the next two sons, were considered rich and strategically important fiefs. Vladimir-Volynsky and Smolensk, bequeathed to the younger brothers, could not compete with these key areas.
It is quite obvious that Yaroslav’s last will was dictated not by concern for the introduction of a firm law in Rus' on the transfer of royal power, but by the specific situation and the father’s opinion about the abilities of his sons. Probably, the Grand Duke doubted that in the event of discord, Izyaslav would have the strength and intelligence to cope with the rest of the brothers alone. That is why such a “five-power” arose.
History knows no cases of such structures lasting long. The system created by Yaroslav lasted at least a decade and a half, but at the first serious test it fell apart. And this is where the history of the first centralized Russian state ended. Yaroslav had enough wisdom to create a powerful power, but not to ensure its strength.
Economic and political ties between the capital and the regions were not strong enough. For the military class, the support of the society of that time, personal loyalty to the immediate master meant more than loyalty to a distant monarch, and even more so to some abstract “Rus”. People who until recently considered themselves Vyatichi, or Krivichi, or Polyanians, now said: “we are Kievans” or “we are Novgorodians,” but not “we are Russians.” The concept of a nation has not yet been formed. The supreme power of Kyiv was more burdensome than beneficial - both for the residents and for the appanage ruler. It is known from the chronicle that he had to send two-thirds of the collected tribute to the Grand Duke. Of course, only the military power of Kyiv could serve as a guarantee of the fulfillment of this heavy duty.
CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS
February 20, 1054 After the death of his father (Yaroslav the Wise), he became the Grand Duke of Kyiv.
1054-1064 Reign in Tmutarakan of Gleb Svyatoslavich, son of the Vladimir-Volyn prince Svyatoslav Yaroslavich.
1054 Battle with the Torks at Warrior on Sula.
1055(?) - after 1061 Stay at the Kyiv Metropolitan See of Ephraim.
1056-1057 Creation of the Ostromir Gospel.
1058 A successful trip to the loach.
1060 Anna Yaroslavna became regent under the young Philip I (the first regency in the history of France), which lasted until 1066.
1060 The united campaign of three princes (Izyaslav, Svyatoslav and Vsevolod Yaroslavich) against the Torci.
1061 The first attack of the Polovtsians on Rus' began a protracted struggle with them. Battle with the Polovtsians near Pereyaslavl.
1061-1062 Construction of the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery.
1062-1072 Stay at the Kyiv Metropolitan See of George.
1062-1074 Abbess in the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery of Theodosius of Pechersk.
1064-1065 Expulsion of Prince Gleb Svyatoslavich from Tmutarakan. The reign of Rostislav Vladimirovich - the nephew of Svyatoslav Yaroslavich.
1064 Izyaslav repels the attack of the Polovtsians. Battle on the Snovi River.
1065 Death of the Tmutarakan prince Rostislav Vladimirovich.
1066 Return to Tmutarakan of Prince Gleb Svyatoslavich.
1066 War of Polotsk with Novgorod. Capture of Novgorod by Vseslav Bryachislavich.
1067 Capture of Minsk by the Yaroslavichs. Battle on the Nemiga River between Vseslav Bryachislavich and the Yaroslavichs.
1068 The Polovtsians approached Kyiv. Battle of the Alta River. Uprising in Kyiv. Vseslav Bryachislavich ascended the throne.
1069-1071 Reign of Svyatopolk Izyaslavich in Polotsk.
1070s Transfer of the Tmutarakan prince Gleb Svyatoslavich to reign in Novgorod. Confirmation of his younger brother Roman Svyatoslavich on the Tmutarakan table.
1070 The battle of Novgorod between Vseslav Bryachislavich and Gleb Svyatoslavich.
1071 An uprising in Beloozero, raised by wise men who came from Yaroslavl, against local elders. Suppression of the uprising by the Kyiv governor Jan Vyshatich.
1071 An uprising in the Rostov-Suzdal land led by the Magi.
1071 Expulsion of Svyatopolk Izyaslavich from Polotsk by Prince Vseslav Bryachislavich.
1072 Capture of Przemysl by Vladimir Monomakh.
1072 Vyshgorod Princely Congress. The adoption by the princes of Yaroslavich of the addition to the Russian Truth - the so-called. truth of the Yaroslavichs.
1072 Transfer of the relics of Saints Boris and Gleb to the new church in Vyshgorod, built by Izyaslav Yaroslavich.
March 1073 The Yaroslavichs began to fight for the Kyiv throne. Expulsion of Izyaslav Yaroslavich from Kyiv.
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Yaroslav Vladimirovich the Wise |
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Svyatoslav Yaroslavich |
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Vsevolod Yaroslavich |
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Vsevolod Yaroslavich |
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Vladimir Yaroslavich |
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Mstislav Izyaslavich |
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1024 Novgorod |
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Yaroslav Vladimirovich the Wise |
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Yaroslavich Triumvirate
First exile
Return and death
Marriages and children
(at baptism Dimitri, born: 1024, Novgorod - † October 3, 1078, Nezhatina Niva, near Chernigov) - Grand Duke of Kiev in 1054-1068, 1069-1073 and from 1077, Prince of Novgorod 1052-1054.
Son of Yaroslav
Born in 1024 in Novgorod, where at that time his father Yaroslav the Wise was the prince, and his mother was Yaroslav's wife Irina (Swedish princess Ingegerda), he was their second son after Vladimir. I received a table from my father in Turov.
After the death of the elder brother of the Novgorod prince Vladimir in 1052, he became the Novgorod prince and, according to the then dynastic rules, became the heir to the Kyiv table (although Vladimir left his son). On February 20, 1054, after the death of his father, he became the Grand Duke of Kyiv, and left his son Mstislav as prince in Novgorod.
Yaroslavich Triumvirate
Most of Izyaslav's reign is characterized by equal participation in public administration of the Grand Duke and his younger brothers - Prince Svyatoslav of Chernigov and Vsevolod of Pereyaslavl. The brothers together undertook a revision of the “Russian Pravda” (adopting the so-called Pravda of the Yaroslavichs), jointly made decisions on filling vacant princely tables, and also established separate metropolitanates in their principalities. Historians call this system the Yaroslavich triumvirate. Together they took part in a campaign against the Torques. In 1055, the Torci raided Pereyaslavl and were defeated, but in this clash Rus' for the first time encountered the Polovtsians of Khan Bolush, signing a peace treaty with him on borders that established about 50 km of neutral zone between Russia and the Polovtsian Land. In 1057, Russia provided military assistance to Byzantium in Armenia against the Seljuk Turks. In 1058, Izyaslav conquered the lands of the Baltic Golyad tribe in the Protva River basin. There was also a campaign against the Torci in 1060 and against Vseslav the Magician, Prince of Polotsk in 1067.
First exile
In 1068, Izyaslav and his brothers were defeated on the Alta River and were overthrown by the popular uprising that began in Kyiv. The leaders of the rebels freed Prince Vseslav of Polotsk, who had previously been arrested by Izyaslav, from the “cut” (a prison without doors, built around a prisoner) and elevated him to the Kiev throne. Izyaslav fled to Poland, to his nephew Prince Boleslav II, and, using the help of Polish troops, returned in 1069, and ahead of him he sent his son Mstislav to Kiev, where he carried out reprisals against the instigators of the uprising, and killed or blinded those responsible for Izyaslav’s expulsion .
Second exile. Traveling around Europe
However, by 1073 (and, most likely, a little earlier), the Yaroslavich “triumvirate” had collapsed; the younger brothers Svyatoslav and Vsevolod entered into a conspiracy against Izyaslav, who had to make peace with his former opponent Vseslav of Polotsk. In 1073, Svyatoslav of Chernigov captured Kyiv, and Izyaslav again fled to Poland, where this time he was expelled by the Polish authorities, who had entered into an alliance with Svyatoslav and Vsevolod. The exiled Izyaslav went to Germany to Emperor Henry IV and demanded his help in the fight against his brothers, handing him gigantic riches; however, the emperor, whose forces were distracted by the internal struggle in Germany, also did not support him. Izyaslav sent his son, the Volyn prince Yaropolk, to Rome in 1075, where he visited Pope Gregory VII, the future antagonist of Henry IV. The Pope limited himself to general admonitions to the Russian princes.
Return and death
The sudden death of Svyatoslav Yaroslavich on December 27, 1076 put an end to Izyaslav’s wanderings; Vsevolod, who became his sole successor, reconciled with his elder brother and returned the Kiev reign to him, and he himself retired to Chernigov (1077). However, the following year a new internecine war began. Their nephews, Svyatoslav's son, Prince of Tmutarakan Oleg Svyatoslavich, who laid claim to the Chernigov table, and the rogue prince Boris Vyacheslavich, rebelled against their uncles - Izyaslav and Vsevolod. In the battle on Nezhatina Niva near Chernigov on October 3, 1078, the Yaroslavich coalition won, Oleg fled, and Boris was killed, but towards the end of the battle Izyaslav also died (an enemy horseman hit him in the shoulder with a spear). The Battle of Nezhatina Niva and the death of Izyaslav and Boris are mentioned in “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign.” Izyaslav Yaroslavich was buried in the Hagia Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv.
Marriages and children
It is known that Izyaslav was married to Gertrude, the daughter of the Polish king Mieszko II.
Children
Yaropolk is the prince of Volyn and Turov, it is also known that Gertrude calls Yaropolk in her prayer book (the so-called Gertrude Code) her “only son.” According to the assumption of A.V. Nazarenko, the Vsevolodkovichs, the rulers of the Goroden principality, descend from him.
Perhaps another unknown woman, perhaps Izyaslav's wife, was the mother of his two more famous sons:
Svyatopolk (Svyatopolk II) (1050-1113) - Prince of Polotsk (1069-1071), Novgorod (1078-1088), Turov (1088-1093), Grand Duke of Kiev (1093-1113), and his descendants in the XII-XIII centuries continued to reign in their ancestral Turov.
Mstislav - Prince of Novgorod (1054-1067)
