1113-1125 Grand Prince of Kiev.
Vladimir Monomakh was one of the wisest and most legendary rulers of Kievan Rus’. After many military campaigns he put an end to a long civil war and finally restored law and order in the state.
Background
Lived: 1053-1125.
Vladimir II (Monomakh) was the son of Vsevolod I and Anastasia, grandson of the Byzantine emperor Constantine IX Monomachos, thus his nickname.
Reign
He conducted several victorious campaigns against the Polovetsy. After many years of fighting, he finally managed to restore law and order. He promoted legal reform to improve the living conditions of ordinary people.
Legacy
Vladimir Monomakh is connected with many legends that have survived to this day. One of them relates how the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I sent him the Monomakh’s Cap as a gift to persuade him to withdraw his troops (the cap is actually believed to have come from the Mongos).
Another legend describes the bringing of a famous icon of the Mother of God (Theotokos) to Russia. Vladimir wrote about it all in his “Instruction for my Children”, one of the great written works of the Old-Russian age.
Vladimir Monomakh
1113-1125 Grand Prince of Kiev.
Vladimir Monomakh was one of the wisest and most legendary rulers of Kievan Rus’. After many military campaigns he put an end to a long civil war and finally restored law and order in the state.
Background
Lived: 1053-1125.
Vladimir II (Monomakh) was the son of Vsevolod I and Anastasia, grandson of the Byzantine emperor Constantine IX Monomachos, thus his nickname.
Reign
He conducted several victorious campaigns against the Polovetsy. After many years of fighting, he finally managed to restore law and order. He promoted legal reform to improve the living conditions of ordinary people.
Legacy
Vladimir Monomakh is connected with many legends that have survived to this day. One of them relates how the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I sent him the Monomakh’s Cap as a gift to persuade him to withdraw his troops (the cap is actually believed to have come from the Mongos).
Another legend describes the bringing of a famous icon of the Mother of God (Theotokos) to Russia. Vladimir wrote about it all in his “Instruction for my Children”, one of the great written works of the Old-Russian age.
Yuri Dolgoruky