Yaropolk appointed Vsevolod Mstislavich to succeed him in Pereyaslavl but Yuri Dolgoruki, with the consent of the Novgorodians, soon drove out his nephew.

Yaropolk appointed another son of Mstislav I: Iziaslav Mstislavich to Pereyaslavl, who also received Turov.

Vsevolod Olgovich, then the prince of Chernigov, the Cumans and his allies who were asked by Iziaslav to make his point against Viacheslav, continued their war against Yaropolk and crossed the Dnieper to loot the Kiev region.

After a decisive battle at the river Supoy in 1135, Yaropolk had to cede the town of Kursk only gained 17 years earlier.

He found soon the combined troops of Kiev, Pereyaslavl, Rostov, Polotsk, Smolensk, parts of Halych and 30,000 Hungarians, sent by the king Bela II before the gates of Chernigov.