Sviatoslav III Vsevolodovich of Vladimir (
Russian: Святослав III Всеволодович) (27 March 1196 – 3 February 1252) was the Prince of
Novgorod
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(1200–1205, 1207–1210) and
Grand Prince of
Vladimir-Suzdal
Vladimir-Suzdal (russian: Владимирско-Су́здальская, ''Vladimirsko-Suzdal'skaya''), also Vladimir-Suzdalian Rus', formally known as the Grand Duchy of Vladimir (1157–1331) (russian: Владимиро-Су́здальс ...
(1246–1248).
Sviatoslav III 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
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Whereas arc ...
in
Volga Bulgaria
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.
Sviatoslav III's reign in Vladimir was short and uneventful. In 1248, his nephew
Mikhail Khorobrit
Mikhail Yaroslavich Khorobrit (The Brave) (russian: Михайл Ярославич Хоробрит) was List of Russian rulers#Grand Princes of Moscow, Prince of Moscow (1246–1248) and Grand Prince of Vladimir in 1248. He was a younger brother ...
of
Moscow
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, 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
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, pleading with the Khan to reinstate him on the grand princely throne. He died on 3 February 1252 and was buried in Yuriev-Polsky.
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1196 births
1252 deaths
Grand Princes of Vladimir
Rurik dynasty
Rurikids
13th-century princes in Kievan Rus'
Eastern Orthodox monarchs