Sviatoslav III of Vladimir

Sviatoslav Vsevolodovich of Vladimir (Russian: Святослав III Всеволодович) (27 March 1196 – 3 February 1252) was the Prince of Novgorod (1200–1205, 1207–1210) and Grand Prince of Vladimir-Suzdal (1246–1248).

Sviatoslav Vsevolodovich was the sixth son of Vsevolod the Big Nest and Maria Shvarnovna. During the partition of his father's lands, he received the town of Yuriev-Polsky. It was he who commissioned the town's principal landmark, the Cathedral of St. George, constructed in 1230–34. In 1220 Sviatoslav sacked Aşlı in Volga Bulgaria.

Sviatoslav's reign in Vladimir was short and uneventful. In 1248, his nephew Mikhail Khorobrit of Moscow, in defiance of the centuries-old succession system, seized the city of Vladimir and ousted Sviatoslav back to Yuriev-Polsky. Two years later, Sviatoslav and his son visited the Golden Horde, pleading with the Khan to reinstate him on the grand princely throne. He died on 3 February 1252 and was buried in Yuriev-Polsky.

Sviatoslav III of Vladimir
Born: 27 March 1196 Died: 3 February 1252
Regnal titles
Preceded by
Yaroslav II
Grand Prince of Vladimir
1246–1248
Succeeded by
Mikhail Khorobrit
Titles in pretence
Preceded by
Yuri II
Grand Prince of Kiev
1238–1252
Succeeded by
Vasilko Romanovich
Preceded by
Yaroslav II
2nd in line to Grand Prince of Kiev
1236–1238
Succeeded by
Ivan Vsevolodovich


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