In 1201, Yaroslav was appointed father () prince of southern Pereyaslavl.
In 1203 he went to the Polovtsians.
In 1206, after the death of Roman of Galicia and the beginning of the struggle for power in Galich, Yaroslav, at the invitation of the Hungarian king, went to Galich, but Vladimir Igorevich, a representative of the Chernigov Olgovichi, managed to go there before him. In response, Vsevolod Chermny, who occupied Kyiv, expelled Yaroslav from Pereyaslavl in 1206 and imprisoned his son Mikhail there.

Prince of Galich: 1206 - 1212

In 1206, the inhabitants of the city of Galich (in Chervonnaya Rus) elected him a prince, but Yaroslav was expelled from there by Prince Rurik Rostislavich and his allies, who decided to give Galich to Vladimir Igorevich, the Seversky prince.

Prince Pereyaslavl-Zalessky: 1212 - 1208

Yaroslav returned to his Pereyaslavl, but from there he was soon expelled by Vsevolod Chermny, the prince of Chernigov.

Prince-viceroy of Ryazan - 1208

In 1208, Yaroslav was sent by his father to reign in Ryazan after Prince Roman Glebovich, after the campaign of Vsevolod III against the Ryazan principality, in which Yaroslav also took part. Ryazanians soon rebelled against Yaroslav, for which Ryazan was burned by Vsevolod, and Yaroslav retired to the Vladimir principality. Gleb Vladimirovich becomes his successor in Ryazan.
In 1209, Yaroslav was sent by his father along with his older brothers against Novgorod, who wanted to install Mstislav Mstislavich as his prince, which Vsevolod III did not like; the matter ended with the reconciliation of the parties.
After the death of Vsevolod III (1212), in the struggle of his older brothers over the great reign, Yaroslav took the side of Yuri against Constantine.

Prince of Novgorod: 1215, 1222 - 1223, 1225 - 1228, 1230 - 1236

Yaroslav Vsevolodovich. Fresco of the Church of the Savior on Nereditsa near Novgorod. About 1246.

In 1215, Yaroslav was invited to the princely table by the Novgorodians, where he was solemnly received by Archbishop Anthony and the inhabitants. Prince Mstislav Mstislavich Udaloy, who had just left Novgorod, left many of his supporters here. He began to reign with incredible severity and autocracy, grabbed the Novgorod thousand (Yakun Zubolomich) and Novotorzhsky posadnik and sent them in chains to Tver. Then he gathered a veche against Tysyatsky Yakun Namnezhich. In the evening, the people rushed to rob Yakunov's yard, and the inhabitants of Prusskaya Street killed the boyar Ovstrat and his son. Yaroslav did not like such self-will, he did not want to stay further in Novgorod, went to Torzhok, sat down to reign here, and planted a governor in Novgorod, following in this case the example of his grandfather, uncle and father, who left the old one and approved their stay in new cities.
Soon a favorable opportunity presented itself for him to constrain Novgorod and bring it completely into his own will: the frost beat all the bread in the Novgorod volost in the fall, only in Torzhok everything was intact. Yaroslav ordered that not a single cartload of bread from the Lower Land be allowed to enter Novgorod; in such need, the Novgorodians sent three boyars to him with a request to move in with them again. Yaroslav detained the messengers. And meanwhile, hunger intensified, poor people ate pine bark, linden leaves, moss, gave their children to eternal servitude; the corpses of the dead lay everywhere - in the market, along the streets and across the field, the dogs did not have time to eat them; most of the warriors died of hunger, the rest fled to foreign countries. The Novgorodians sent the posadnik Yuri Ivanovich and other noble people to Yaroslav to call him again, he ordered them to be detained, and instead of answering, he sent two of his boyars to Novgorod to bring his wife out of there. Then the Novgorodians sent to him with the last speech: “Go to your homeland, to St. Sophia, but you won’t, so tell me straight. Yaroslav detained the ambassadors, detained all the guests of Novgorod, and there was sadness and a cry in Novgorod, says the chronicler. Yaroslav's calculation was correct: it was difficult for the Novgorodian antiquity to resist under such circumstances, but old Russia was still strong with its Mstislav.
Having learned what evil was being done in Novgorod, Mstislav the Udaloy arrived there on February 2, 1216, grabbed Yaroslav's mayor Khot Grigorievich, reforged all his nobles, drove into the court of Yaroslav and kissed the cross to the Novgorodians, and the Novgorodians to him - not to part either in the stomach or in death .

Yaroslav, having learned about the Novgorod news, began to prepare for war, ordered to make notches along the Novgorod road to the Tvertsa River, and sent 100 people from his inhabitants, who seemed to him loyal, to Novgorod with instructions to raise a rebellion against Mstislav and send him out of the city. However, these 100 people, as soon as they arrived in Novgorod, so unanimously went over to the side of Mstislav, who sent a priest to Torzhok to say to Yaroslav: “Son! I bow to you: let your husbands and guests go, come out of Torzhok and take love with me!

Yaroslav did not like this proposal; he released the priest without an answer, and called all the Novgorodians detained in Torzhok, numbering more than 2000, to the field outside the city, ordered them to be seized, put in chains and sent to their cities, and distributed their property and horses to the squad. This move had the opposite effect.
All the remaining Novgorodians on March 1, 1216, together with Mstislav, opposed Yaroslav. On the Vazuz River, Mstislav joined his cousin Vladimir Rurikovich Smolensky. Despite this, he again sent peace proposals to Yaroslav, but he ordered to answer: “I don’t want peace; let's go - so go; one of yours will have a hundred of ours. Then Mstislav and Vladimir moved to Tver and began to capture and burn the villages. Upon learning of this, Yaroslav left Torzhok for Tver. Mstislav went further and began to ruin the Pereyaslav volost, and sent to Konstantin Rostov with a proposal of an alliance. Konstantin immediately connected with him, Yaroslav came to the aid of the brothers Yuri, Svyatoslav and Vladimir. Together with them was all the power of the Suzdal land; they drove everyone - townspeople and villagers - who did not have a horse, he walked. It was a terrible miracle and wondrous, says the chronicler: sons went against fathers, fathers against children, brother against brother, slaves against master, and masters against slaves. Vsevolodovichi stood on the Kze River, and Mstislav sent a message to Yaroslav: “Let the Novgorodians and Novotorzhians go, return the Novgorod volosts that you captured; reconcile with us and kiss the cross, and shed no blood. Yaroslav refused: “I don’t want peace, I don’t let Novgorodians and Novotorzhets go; you went far, but you came out like a dry fish.

Vsevolodovichi, confident in their strength, led the way to battle. Mstislav retreated to the Lipitsa River (near the city of Yuryev-Polsky), and here on April 21 a big battle took place.
The Novgorodians hit Yaroslav's regiments with such force that the Pereyaslavites could not stand it and fled, and after a fierce battle, the entire army also fled. Yaroslav ran to Pereyaslavl on the fifth horse, driving four, and closed himself in the city. The first evil was not enough for him, says the chronicler, he was not satisfied with human blood, having beaten many people in Novgorod, both in Torzhok and on Voloka, this was not enough for him; having run to Pereyaslavl, he ordered to intercept all the Novgorodians and Smolensk people who had entered his land for trade, and ordered them to be thrown into the cellar, others into a cramped hut, where they all perished in the number of one and a half hundred.

The helmet of Yaroslav Vsevolodovich, lost by him in 1216 and found in 1808

In the meantime, Yuri surrendered Vladimir to the Mstislavichs (his brother Konstantin sat here), and he himself went to Radilov on the Volga. But Yaroslav did not want to submit, locked himself in Pereyaslavl and thought that he would sit here, but when Mstislav and Konstantin moved to Pereyaslavl, he got scared and began to send them asking for peace, and then he himself came to his brother Konstantin, hit him with his forehead and said, "Sir! I am in your will: do not betray me to my father-in-law Mstislav and Vladimir Rurikovich, but feed me bread yourself. Konstantin reconciled him with Mstislav on the road, and when the princes came to Pereyaslavl, Yaroslav endowed them and the governor with rich gifts. Mstislav, taking gifts, sent to the city for his daughter, his wife Yaroslavova. Yaroslav more than once sent to him with a request to return his wife to him, but Mstislav did not agree.
In 1218 Mstislav left Novgorod and went to Galich. Troubles began again among the Novgorodians, and in order to stop them, they were forced to again ask the prince from Yuri Vsevolodovich.
In 1222, after a campaign near Kes of a 12,000-strong army led by Yaroslav's younger brother Svyatoslav (in alliance with the Lithuanians), Yaroslav's nephew Vsevolod left Novgorod for Vladimir, and Yaroslav was invited to reign in Novgorod.
Novgorodians were glad to Yaroslav, says the chronicler.
By the period 1222-1223. include mass uprisings of Estonians against the power of the crusaders and their suppression. On August 15, 1223, the crusaders took Viljandi, where the Russian garrison was located. Henry of Latvia writes: As for the Russians who were in the castle, who came to the aid of the apostates, after the capture of the castle they were all hanged in front of the castle for the fear of other Russians. Meanwhile, the elders from Sakkala were sent to Russia with money and many gifts to see if it would be possible to call on the Russian kings for help against the Teutons and all the Latins. And the king of Suzdal sent his brother, and with him a lot of troops to help the Novgorodians; and the Novgorodians and the king of Pskov with his townspeople went with him, and there were only about twenty thousand people in the army. In 1223, Yaroslav led the 20,000th Novgorod-Vladimir army in a campaign near Revel, after which Vsevolod Yuryevich again became the prince of Novgorod.
Yaroslav devastated the entire Peipsi land, took a lot of booty and was full, but he could not take the city. Soon Yaroslav voluntarily left Novgorod (about 1224).
In 1225, Yaroslav replaced Mikhail of Chernigov in Novgorod.
In the same year, 7,000 Lithuanians devastated the villages near Torzhok, only three miles before reaching the city, killed many merchants and captured the entire Toropets volost. Yaroslav caught up with them near Usvyat, defeated, destroyed 2000 people and took away the booty.
In the winter of 1227, Yaroslav went to Finland to Em (Yam), "where, according to the chronicle, not a single Russian prince can be, and their whole land is captured."
In 1227, without any violence on his part, he baptized the Korels, the neighbors of Yemi.
In the same year, Yaroslav quarreled with the Novgorodians over Pskov, which he wanted to completely subordinate to his will; he demanded that the Novgorodians go with him to Pskov, but they refused.
Yaroslav left for Pereyaslavl-Zalessky, leaving his sons (Fyodor and Alexander) in Novgorod.
In 1228, Yaroslav brought regiments from the Vladimir-Suzdal principality, intending to go to Riga, but the plan was upset because the Pskovites made peace with the order and feared that Yaroslav was actually planning to go to Pskov, and the Novgorodians refused to go without the Pskovians.
In the same 1228, Yaroslav participated in the campaign of his brother Yuri against Mordva, then captured the Novgorod volost Volok; Novgorodians sent ambassadors demanding the return of Volok; Yaroslav not only did not give him up, but kept the ambassador in captivity.
In 1230, Yaroslav was again called to reign by the Novgorodians.
In 1232, Pope Gregory IX called on the knights of the Order of the Sword to fight Orthodoxy. In 1234, Yaroslav invaded Derpt and won the battle on Omovzha. A peace treaty was signed between Novgorod and the Order, according to which the eastern and southern parts of the Derpt bishopric went to Pskov.

Grand Duke of Kyiv: 1236 - 1238

In 1236, having learned that Mikhail Vsevolodovich of Chernigov was engaged in a difficult war with the Galician princes Daniil and Vasilko Romanovich, Yaroslav left his son Alexander in Novgorod, took with him several noble Novgorodians, 100 Novotorzhan people, Pereyaslav and Rostov regiments, moved south, devastated Chernihiv volost and sat on the great reign in Kyiv.
Having established himself in Kyiv, he stopped the struggle between the Chernihiv-Seversky and Smolensk princes for him and concentrated, together with his elder brother Yuri Vsevolodovich Vladimirsky, two key princely tables at the time when the Mongols invaded Volga Bulgaria.
For more than a year he quietly reigned here, when suddenly the news came of the Tatar invasion and the terrible devastation of the Vladimir-Suzdal land. Leaving Kyiv, Yaroslav hurried to the north, but did not have time to arrive on time. Yuri Vsevolodovich was defeated in the City and died in the battle.
In 1238, Mikhail Vsevolodovich left his successors in Kyiv.

In 1238 formed Belozersk Principality(1238 - 1486) - the capital of Beloozero (now Belozersk), since 1432 Vereya.
Destinies:
- Sogozh principality around 1345 - 1375);
- Sheleshpan principality (c.1375 - 1410);
- Kem principality (c.1375 - 1430) - the capital is the village of Kem;
- Kargolom principality (c.1375 - 1430) - the capital is unknown;
- Debrinsky principality - the capital is unknown;
- Ukhtom principality (c.1410 - 1450) - the capital is unknown;
- Andoga Principality (c.1385 - 1430) - the capital is unknown;
- Vadbol principality (c.1410 - 1450) - the capital is unknown;
- Beloselsky principality (c.1385 - 1470) - the capital of the White Village;
In 1238 formed (1238 - 1460) - the capital of Starodub.

Grand Duke of Vladimir: 1238 - 1246

On March 4, 1238, Yuri, the Grand Duke of Vladimir, fell in a battle with the Tatars on the City River. Yaroslav, having learned about the death of his brother, came to reign in Vladimir.

The return of Prince Yaroslav Vsevolodovich to Vladimir after the invasion of Batu

Chorikov B. Grand Duke Yaroslav, after the ruin of Russia by the Tatars, resumes the city

At this time, his capital city was a heap of ruins.
“Having ascended the throne of the Grand Duke in order to rule over the ruins, he took care, first of all, of the restoration of the cathedral church of the Assumption.
Having cleansed the church from the bodies of the new Christian martyrs, he buried here, under the arches, in one chamber, all the dead grand-ducal family and St. Mitrofan, and then, not wanting to separate the remains of his valiant brother from the remains of his family, Grand Duke Yaroslav decided to transfer the relics to Vladimir St. Blessed Grand Duke George, who repented in the Rostov Cathedral, transferred there from the battlefield by Bishop Kirill of Rostov. Thus, under the ancient vaults of the cathedral church, the sufferers of the Russian land found temporary rest.
In difficult times of the Tatar yoke, the Vladimir Assumption Cathedral served as a unifying center for fragmented and captive Russia. With its main shrine - the miraculous icon of the Mother of God, twice saved from fires, it attracted the archpastors of the Russian Church and for about a hundred years had a very important historical significance, as the main temple of the capital of the Grand Duke, as the cathedral church of the metropolitans of All Russia. Georgievsky V., 1896 - The city of Vladimir on the Klyazma and its sights.
Yaroslav took care of putting the capital in order, of cleansing it of the corpses that filled not only courtyards and streets, but even temples; then he tried to gather and encourage the inhabitants who had fled from the Tatar invasion, consoled them and, as a senior, began to dispose of the volosts.
The Lithuanians, taking advantage of the cramped position of the north-east of Russia, disturbed Smolensk. Yaroslav went against them, defeated and captured their prince.
In 1239 he went near Smolensk to drive out the Lithuanian regiments.

1212-1216 and 1219-1238. - Grand Duke of Vladimir.
. mind. 1226
1238 - the capture of Suzdal and Vladimir by the troops of Batu Khan.

1238-1246 - Grand Duke of Vladimir.
. 1246-1248 - Grand Duke of Vladimir.
. 1248 - Grand Duke of Vladimir.
. 1249-1252 - Grand Duke of Vladimir.

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Chapter I Grand Duke Yaroslav II Vsevolodovich. 1238-1247 Vigor of Yaroslav. George properties. Liberation of Smolensk. Civil strife. Batu devastates southern Russia. The beauty of Kyiv. generosity of citizens. Siege and capture of Kyiv. State of Russia. The reason for the success of the Batyevs. properties and