[1] He is the founder of the Rostislavichi branch of Rurikid princes in Smolensk.
Then, learning that Iziaslav II had died, Rostislav left Novgorod to take the Kievan throne.
Indignant that their prince had abandoned them and angered that "he did not make order among them, but tore them more apart", the citizens of Novgorod drove out Rostislav's son, Davyd, who was their governor.
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