Princess Yaropolkovna of Minsk

преставис̑ блж҃наӕ кнѧгини Глѣбоваӕ Всеславича дочи Ӕрополча Изѧславича сѣдѣвши по кн҃зи своемъ вдовою лѣт̑ м҃ а всихъ лѣт̑ и ѿ ржс̑тва .п҃.

[1](Tom zhe lětě prestavis’ blazhenaia kniagini Glěbovaia Vseslavicha dochi Iaropolcha Iziaslavicha sěděvshi po kniazi svoem” vdovoiu let” .m.

(Lisa L. Heinrich, 1977)[4][b]The obituary, which has the style of an encomium,[11] goes on to narrate she was buried in the Assumption Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, next to her husband in the tomb by the side of father Theodosius of Kiev.

[20] According to Litvina & Uspenskij (2013), this was the first matrimonial union in Kievan Rus' between members of the reigning clan, the so-called Rurikids (or Volodimerovichi[7]): Gleb and princess Yaropolkovna, as great-great-grandchildren of Volodimer I of Kiev in the male line, were related in the eighth degree; marriages between siblings-in-law up to the seventh degree were forbidden by church norms, so foreign women usually became the wives of Rus' princes.

[10][7] It is unclear what happened to the principality of Minsk thereafter, but Inés García de la Puente (2012) theorised, based on the available textual, linguistic, historical and archaeological evidence, that Monomakh and subsequent princes of Kiev continuously left princess Yaropolkovna to reign in Minsk under their supervision, rather than appointing yet more quarrelsome sons or grandsons of Vseslav, especially after most of them were exiled in 1129/30.

[35] Soviet archaeologist and historian Valentin Yanin noted in 1970 the possibility that princesses ruled in the Vseslavichi territories of Polotsk and its appanages between 1129 and the 1150s, during the Byzantine exile of the male princes.

[37]: 66 The memory of prince Gleb Vseslavich and princess Yaropolkovna of Minsk lived on in the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra for a long time.

The author called the piety and devoutness of the dead the main virtue worthy of honour, ‘the halo of Saint Theodosius is not opposed to his absence in the usual mortals, but illuminates them with his grace'.

[38] The unknown author of the Kievan Synopsis claimed to have found the name of the princess as "Anastasia", although it is not mentioned in earlier sources, including the epitaph.

The Synopsis called Gleb Vseslavich (Hlib Wsesławic) a 'Kievan prince,' being inscribed, like other Rurikids, in the foundation of the historical memory of the Ukrainian identity of that time.