Yaroslav the Wise
Grand Prince of Kiev from 1019 to 1054
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He fought his way to the throne of medieval Kiev through a brother-war, then spent three decades turning a fractious principality into a power that could stare down Byzantium and the steppe nomads alike.
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Born around 978 to Vladimir the Great and Rogneda of Polotsk, Yaroslav moved through a string of provincial postings — Rostov, then Novgorod in 1010 — before openly defying his father by withholding tribute in 1014. Vladimir's death the next year pitched Yaroslav into a grinding succession fight against his half-brother Sviatopolk; he won the throne in 1019 and held it until 1054. As Grand Prince he pivoted Kiev's foreign policy toward Scandinavia and away from Byzantine orbit, seized the land around present-day Tartu and built the fort of Yuryev, and threw up a line of fortifications to blunt…
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