About Viacheslav I of Kiev
Lived 1083 – 1154 (aged 70–71). Viacheslav I of Kiev was an aristocrat.
Viacheslav I Vladimirovich (1083 – 2 February 1154) was a Prince of Smolensk (1113–1125), Turov (1125–1132; 1134–1146), Pereyaslavl (1132–1134; 1142), Peresopnytsia (1146–1149), Vyshgorod (1149–1151) and Grand Prince of Kiev.
He was a son of Vladimir Monomakh and Gytha of Wessex. On 18 February 1139 he succeeded his brother Yaropolk II of Kiev as grand prince, but was driven out in March by Vsevolod II of Kiev. He later ruled Kiev jointly with his nephew Iziaslav II of Kiev and died not long after Iziaslav in late 1154 or early 1155 and is buried in the St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev. His only son, Michael Viacheslavovich, had predeceased him in 1129.
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grand prince of Kiev
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Viacheslav I of Kiev was born in 1083.
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Viacheslav I of Kiev died on 2 February 1154 in Kyiv.
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Viacheslav I of Kiev was an aristocrat.
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