Vsevolod I of Kiev

Vsevolod I Yaroslavich (Old East Slavic: Всеволодъ Ꙗрославичь, romanized: Vsevolodǔ Jaroslavičǐ;[a] c. 1 February 1030 – 13 April 1093) was Grand Prince of Kiev from 1078 until his death in 1093.

[5] Upon his father's death in 1054, he received in appanage the towns of Pereyaslav,[6] Rostov, Suzdal, and the township of Beloozero which would remain in possession of his descendants until the end of Middle Ages.

Together with his elder brothers Iziaslav and Sviatoslav he formed a sort of princely triumvirate which jointly waged war on the steppe nomads, Polovtsy, and compiled the Russkaya Pravda, the first law code of the state.

They had a son, Rostislav, who drowned after the Battle of the Stugna River, and daughters, one becoming a nun and another, Eupraxia of Kiev, marrying Emperor Henry IV.

[12] Feodosy, the saintly hegumen or head of the Monastery of the Caves in Kiev remained loyal to Iziaslav, and refused lunch with Sviatoslav and Vsevolod.

[17][15] The Primary Chronicle writes that the "people no longer had access to the Prince's justice, judges became corrupt and venal".

[20] Historian George Vernadsky believes that these probably included Greek and Cuman, because of the nationality of his two wives, and that he likely spoke Latin, Norse, and Ossetian.

Kievan court in the times of Vsevolod I
Vladimir Monomakh , Vsevolod's son