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Rostislava Mstislavna, Christian name: Feodosia (Theodosia) was the second wife of Yaroslav II, Grand Duke of

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and

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. Her parents were

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the Bold and a daughter (christened Maria) of the

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Kotyan. The information about her is scarce and controversial. Ростислава Мстиславовна, в св. крещении Феодосия
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, although some claim that Yaroslav's issue is from his third wife. She died in Novgorod in 1241 or 1244, assuming the

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. She is known to oversee the construction of the first (wooden) building of the Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos on Mikhalitsa in

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