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Yaroslav II Iziaslavich (died 1180) was Prince of Turov (1146), Novgorod (1148–1154), Lutsk (1154–1180) and Grand Prince of Kiev (1174–1175; 1180). He was the son of Iziaslav II of Kiev and Agnes Hohenstaufen and the brother of Mstislav II of Kiev.
Yaroslav I Vladimirovich (c. 978–20 February 1054), better known as Yaroslav the Wise, was Grand Prince of Kiev from 1019 until his death in 1054. 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.
Apr 16, 2024 · Yaroslav, with the active support of the Novgorodians and the help of Varangian mercenaries, defeated Svyatopolk and became the grand prince of Kyiv in 1019. Yaroslav began consolidating the Kyivan state through both cultural and administrative improvements and through military campaigns.
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Yaroslav II Vsevolodovich (Russian: Яросла́в II Все́володович; Christian name: Theodor (Феодо́р); 8 February 1191 – 30 September 1246), also transliterated as Iaroslav, was Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1238 to 1246.
Svyatopolk fled to the Poles and Yaroslav reigned in Kiev, after having been in Novgorod twenty-eight years. Two years later Svyatopolk returned to the attack with Boleslav of Poland as his ally.
Yaroslav made Kiev his political and ecclesiastical capital and strove to make it the intellectual, cultural, and economic center in imitation of Constantinople. He founded monasteries and churches such as the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Kiev, the metropolitan's church.
Sep 27, 2020 · Yaroslav the Wise was instrumental in defending borders and expanding the holdings of Kievan Rus’. He protected the southern borders from nomadic tribes, such as the Pechenegs, by constructing a line of military forts.
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