Yaroslav II Vsevolodovich ^{1 2 3}

   Cause of his death was poisoned by the wife of Güyük Khan in Karakorum.

   Another name for Yaroslav was Yaroslav II Rurik.

  General Notes:

First Grand Prince to be vassal of the Khans.

Yaroslav II (Feodor) (1190-1246) grand prince of Novgorod (1215-1236, with breaks), Kiev (1236-?) and Vladimir (1238-?).

Yaroslav was the fourth son of Vsevolod the Big Nest.

He married the daughter of the Prince of Polotsk (his cousin) in 1239.

He was father of Alexander Nevski, who began the line of Moscovite Princes.

  Noted events in his life were:

• He was a Grand Prince of Vladimir.

• Acceded: Prince of Kiev, 1236.

Yaroslav married Theodosia Rurik, daughter of Mstislav Rurik and Unknown, in 1214. (Theodosia Rurik was born before 1203 and died in 1244.)