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Izyaslav Mstislavich
Iziaslav II Mstislavich ( at Izbornik – 13 November 1154) was (1146–1154). He was also (1132; 1143–1145), (1132–1134), (1134–), and |
Izyaslav II - Fresco Of The Novospassky Monastery
Iziaslav or Izyaslav (, ), also known as Zaslav (, ; , ), is one of the oldest cities in Volhynia. Situated on the Horyn River in western Ukraine, the city dates back to the 11th century. Iziaslav belongs to Shepetivka Raion of Khmelnytskyi Oblast. It hosts the administration of Iziaslav urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: History Izyaslav was first mentioned in 1390. It was a private town in Poland, owned by the Zasławski and Sanguszko families. It was part of the Polish Volhynian Voivodeship. In 1583 it was granted Magdeburg city rights. After the Partitions of Poland Iziaslav was part of the Russian Empire – Volhynian Governorate. At the beginning of World War II, the town had a Jewish population representing 28% of the inhabitants. As soon as the Germans occupied the town, Jews were kept imprisoned in a ghetto and were later murdered in mass executions perpetrated by ''Einsatzgruppen''. Until 18 July 2020, Iziaslav was the administrative center ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaroslav II Of Kiev
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. Biography After the murder of Andrey Bogolyubsky Andrey Yuryevich Bogolyubsky (, lit. Andrey Yuryevich of Bogolyubovo; died 28 June 1174) was Prince of Vladimir-Suzdal from 1157 until his death. During repeated internecine wars between the princely clans, Andrey accompanied his father Yuri D ..., Yaroslav's relatives managed to maneuver him into the Kievan throne. He contended with a senior relative, Sviatoslav Vsevolodivich, for over two years before Sviatoslav eventually won power for himself and became the uncontested ruler of Kiev. Family He was married to Richeza, daughter Vladislaus II, King of Bohemia. * Ingvar Yaroslavich (?-1220), prince of Lutsk (1180-1220), Grand Prince of Kiev (1201-1202, 1203, 1204) * Vsevo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor II Of Kiev
Igor II Olgovich (died September 19, 1147) was Prince of Chernigov and Grand Prince of Kiev (1146). He was a son of Oleg I of Chernigov. He was the chosen successor of his brother, Vsevolod II of Kiev. Though his brother had extracted promises of loyalty from his Kievan subjects, Igor and his family, the Olgovichi, were unpopular and there was resistance against his accession. The chroniclers accused Igor of being dishonest, greedy, scheming, and violent. He had reigned less than two weeks before the Kievans invited his cousin and rival, Iziaslav II of Kiev, Iziaslav II, to be their prince. Reneging on a promise he had made not to seek power, Iziaslav attacked and defeated Igor and his brother Svyatoslav Olgovich, Sviatoslav. Sviatoslav escaped, but Igor got bogged down in some marshes and was unable to flee because of an infirmity in his legs. He was captured, and Iziaslav had him thrown into a pit. He languished in the pit until autumn 1146, when, desperately ill, he requested ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mstislav Izyaslavich
Mstislav II Iziaslavich (died 19 August 1170) was Grand Prince of Kiev from 1158 to 1159 and again from 1167 to 1169. Life 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 returned with a new army and defeated Dolgoruky at Vladimir-Volynsk. Dolgoruky died in 1157, and Mstislav had himself crowned at Vladimir. In 1169, Kiev was sacked by Andrey Bogolyubsky who removed Mstislav as grand prince. In March 1169, he defended Kiev from the troops of Prince Andrey Bogolyubsky, but was forced to leave the city and retreat to Volhynia. In 1170, he retook Kiev. He died in Vladimir and was buried in the Cathedral of the Holy Mother of God. Family In 1151, Mstislav married Agnes, the daughter of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viacheslav I Of Kiev
Viacheslav Vladimirovich (1083 – 2 February 1154) was a Prince of Smolensk (1113–1125), prince of Turov, Turov (1125–1132; 1134–1146), Principality of Pereslavl, Pereyaslavl (1132–1134; 1142), Peresopnytsia (1146–1149), Vyshhorod, Vyshgorod (1149–1151) and Grand Prince of Kiev (1139). He was a son of Vladimir II Monomakh, Vladimir Monomakh and Gytha of Wessex. On 18 February 1139 he succeeded his brother Yaropolk II of Kiev as grand prince, but was driven out in March by Vsevolod II of Kiev. He later ruled Kiev jointly with his nephew Iziaslav II of Kiev and died not long after Iziaslav in late 1154 or early 1155 and is buried in the St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev. His only son, Michael Viacheslavovich, had predeceased him in 1129. Notes References 1083 births 1154 deaths Monomakhovichi family Princes of Smolensk Princes of Turov Princes of Pereyaslavl Grand princes of Kiev Burials at Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv 12th-century princ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vsevolod Of Pskov
Vsevolod Mstislavich Monomakh (), the patron saint of the city of Pskov, ruled as Prince of Novgorod in 1117–32, Prince of Pereyaslavl (1132) and Prince of Pskov in 1137–38. Early life The eldest son of Mstislav the Great and Christina Ingesdotter of Sweden, Vsevolod was born in Novgorod during his father's reign as prince there (1088–1093, 1095–1117) and given the baptismal name Gabriel, or Gavriil. His maternal grandfather was King Inge the Elder of Sweden. The date of his birth is unknown, although the idea has been advanced that the event was commemorated by the Annunciation Church in the Marketplace, founded by Mstislav in 1103. He was enthroned as Prince of Novgorod after his father Mstislav Vladimirovich became Grand Prince of Kiev in 1117 and ruled Novgorod, with some interruption, until he was ousted by the Novgorodians in 1136. He was married to a Chernigovian princess in Novgorod in 1123 and his son, Ivan, was born there (he died in 1128). In 1123, Vs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
8th Separate Special Purpose Regiment (Ukraine)
The 8th Separate Special Operations Regiment, or the Special Operations Center "West" (''Knyaz Izyaslav Mstyslavych''), A0553, is a regiment of the Special Operations Forces (Ukraine), Special Operations Forces. It is headquartered in the city of Khmelnytskyi, a kind of Joint Rapid Reaction Forces. Since 2014, the regiment has participated in the many battles of the Russo-Ukrainian War being reformed into a separate special operations center in 2022. History Establishment After the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, the 8th Special Brigade of the Red Army was subordinated to the Ministry of Defence (Ukraine), Ukrainian Ministry of Defence. In September 2003, the unit was reformed from a brigade to the 8th separate special purpose regiment (A0553). Foreign Deployment Since February 18, 2004, a platoon of the unit was deployed for peacekeeping operations in Wasit Governorate in Iraq, as well as in Sierra Leone, Liberia and other conflict zones.Oleksii TrygubЮвіляри ізясла ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia (country)
Georgia is a country in the Caucasus region on the coast of the Black Sea. It is located at the intersection of Eastern Europe and West Asia, and is today generally regarded as part of Europe. It is bordered to the north and northeast by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. Georgia covers an area of . It has a Demographics of Georgia (country), population of 3.7 million, of which over a third live in the capital and List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), largest city, Tbilisi. Ethnic Georgians, who are native to the region, constitute a majority of the country's population and are its titular nation. Georgia has been inhabited since prehistory, hosting the world's earliest known sites of winemaking, gold mining, and textiles. The Classical antiquity, classical era saw the emergence of several kingdoms, such as Colchis and Kingdom of Iberia, Iberia, that formed the nucleus of the modern Georgian state. In the early fourth centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demetrius I Of Georgia
Demetrius I ( ka, დემეტრე I, tr) ( 1093 – 1156), from the Bagrationi dynasty, was the King (''mepe'') of the Kingdom of Georgia from 1125 to 1154 and again from 1155 until his death in 1156. He is also known as a poet. He is regarded as a saint in the Orthodox Church, and his feast day is celebrated on May 23 in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar. Early life Demetrius was born in 1093, the eldest son of King David IV of Georgia by his first wife, Rusudan, an Armenian woman. Around 1107, David IV divorced Queen Rusudan in order to cement his alliance with the Kipchaks. He then married Gurandukht, the daughter of the Kipchak chieftain Otrok. In 1117, King David sent Demetrius on a punitive expedition to Shirvan, where the young commander quickly earned a reputation for his remarkable military prowess. His forces captured Kaladzori Castle (later known as Alberd, now Agdash) and returned home with captives and significant wealth, cementing Demetrius's growing f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bagrationi, Daughter Of Demetrius I Of Georgia
Princess Bagrationi was a 12th–13th century princess from Abkhazia, who was briefly grand princess consort of Kiev for a few months in 1154 by marriage to Iziaslav II of Kiev.Zob. W. Dworzaczek, Genealogia, tabl. 27. Biography The princess is primarily known from an entry in the ''Kievan Chronicle'' under the year of 1154, in which she married the grand prince of Kiev: "Obez" means Abkhazia. Based on this fact, it has been conjectured that she was a Georgian princess of the royal Bagrationi dynasty. She would have been a daughter of King Demetrius I of Georgia, sister of the kings David V and George III and Princess Rusudan. She was a paternal aunt of the famous Queen Tamar of Georgia. Her first name is unknown, and nothing is known about her later life either. References Bibliography Primary sources * ''Kievan Chronicle The ''Kievan Chronicle'' or ''Kyivan Chronicle'' is a chronicle of Kievan Rus'. It was written around 1200 in Vydubychi Monastery as a continua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Principality Of Drutsk
The Principality of Drutsk (; obsolete spelling: ''Druck'') was a small appanage of the Principality of Polotsk, centred in the city of Drutsk. It was located on a three way stick between Vitebsk, Minsk and Mogilev regions in modern Belarus. The appanage principality of Drutsk was established after the death of Vseslav, the Prince of Polotsk, in 1101 and the division of the Polatsk territory between Vseslav's sons. Drutsk was given to Rogvolod-Boris. Soon its territory was taken over by another appanage duchy of Polotsk, Principality of Minsk governed by Gleb Vseslavich. In 1116, the Principality of Drutsk was taken over by the Grand Principality of Kiev governed by Volodymyr Monomakh, but by 1150s it was returned to Principality of Minsk. Eventually Drutsk was entirely taken over by the Principality of Minsk in the second half of the 13th century and in early 14th century by another appanage duchy of Polotsk, Principality of Vitebsk. It is believed that Algirdas, Grand Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. The territory has a varied landscape, diverse ecosystems, and a temperate climate. Poland is composed of Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 million people, and the List of European countries by area, fifth largest EU country by area, covering . The capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city is Warsaw; other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, and Gdańsk. Prehistory and protohistory of Poland, Prehistoric human activity on Polish soil dates to the Lower Paleolithic, with continuous settlement since the end of the Last Gla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
