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.