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Mstislav was the son of Grand Prince Iziaslav II of Kiev. Along with his father, he participated in the wars against Yury Dolgoruky and the Chernigov princes. After an initial victory against the Cumans in 1153, Mstislav was defeated by the Cumans at the Psel river. Yury Dolgoruky forced him to flee to Poland in 1155, but the next year Mstislav ...
Mstislav was the last ruler of the united state of Rus', and upon his death, as the chronicler put it, "the land of Rus was torn apart". He died in Kiev, aged 55. He died in Kiev, aged 55. He is a canonised saint of the Orthodox Church as St. Mstislav Theodore, prince of Kiev (1132), and is commemorated on April 15.
The Grand Prince of Kiev (sometimes grand duke) was the title of the monarch of Kievan Rus', residing in Kiev (modern Kyiv) from the 10th to 13th centuries. [citation needed] In the 13th century, Kiev became an appanage principality first of the grand prince of Vladimir and the Mongol Golden Horde governors, and later was taken over by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
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Mstislav II of Kiev (1126-19 August 1170) was the Grand Prince of Kievan Rus from 1167 to 1170, succeeding Iziaslav III of Kiev and preceding Gleb of Kiev. Mstislav was the son of Iziaslav II of Kiev, and he served in his father's campaigns against Chernigov. While he won a victory over the Cumans in 1153, he was defeated by them at the Psyol river later that year. Yury Dolgoruky forced ...
Nov 25, 2004 · Clarkson N Potter, New York 1981 in Table 135. Mstislav II Izyaslavich (Ukrainian: Мстислав Ізяславич; (died 1172) was the Kniaz' (Prince) of Pereyaslav, Volodymyr-Volynsky and Velikiy Kniaz (Grand Prince) of Kyiv (1167–1169, 1170). Son of Izyaslav Mstislavich, Velikiy Kniaz' (Grand Prince) of Kyiv.
MSTISLAV. (1076 – 1132), Vladimir Monomakh's eldest son, grand prince of Kiev, and the progenitor of the dynasties of Vladimir in Volyn and of Smolensk. In 1088 Mstislav Vladmirovich's grandfather Vsevolod appointed him to Novgorod, but in 1093 his father (Monomakh) sent him to Rostov and Smolensk. In 1095 he returned to Novgorod where he ...
Mstislav II Izyaslavich reigned only two years and was expelled from Kiev in 1169 by Andrei Bogolyubsky, who was dissatisfied with the fact that Mstislav planted the prince of his son in Novgorod. Mikhail Yuryevich (1174 – 1178) Mstislav II Izyaslavich reigned only two years and was expelled from Kiev in 1169 by Andrei Bogolyubsky, who was ...
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