Vsevolod Svyatoslavich (russian: Всеволод Святославич), also known as Vsevolod Aurochs (russian: Буй-тур) and Vsevolod the Fierce (died 1196), was a
Prince of Kursk
A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. The ...
and
Prince of Trubchevsk from a
Rurikid family
The Rurik dynasty ( be, Ру́рыкавічы, Rúrykavichy; russian: Рю́риковичи, Ryúrikovichi, ; uk, Рю́риковичі, Riúrykovychi, ; literally "sons/scions of Rurik"), also known as the Rurikid dynasty or Rurikids, was ...
in
Kievan Rus. He participated in wars against
Cumans
The Cumans (or Kumans), also known as Polovtsians or Polovtsy (plural only, from the Russian language, Russian Exonym and endonym, exonym ), were a Turkic people, Turkic nomadic people comprising the western branch of the Cuman–Kipchak confede ...
and was mentioned in
The Tale of Igor's Campaign
''The Tale of Igor's Campaign'' ( orv, Слово о пълкѹ Игоревѣ, translit=Slovo o pŭlku Igorevě) is an anonymous epic poem written in the Old East Slavic language.
The title is occasionally translated as ''The Tale of the Campaig ...
.
Rurik dynasty
Medieval Russian people
1196 deaths
Eastern Orthodox monarchs
Year of birth unknown
12th-century princes in Kievan Rus'
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