Ostromir Konstantinovich (c995-1057)

Ostromir (baptized Joseph) was the posadnik of Veliky Novgorod in 1054 - 1057, the commander and statesman of Ancient Rus.

Ostromir was a relative, an inherent ("near") of the Kiev prince Izyaslav Yaroslavich and in fact his co-ruler, commanding over such a significant territory of Ancient Rus, which was Novgorod land.

About what kind of kinship relations Ostromir consisted with the ruling princes, there is no common opinion. Since the XIX century, widespread point of view that he was the grandson of Dobryny, the son of Konstantin Dobrynich and the father of Vyshata. There is also a hypothesis that his wife Feofana came from the family of Yaroslav the Wise. However, according to the scarcity of the surviving sources, each hypothesis is based on a number of assumptions.

In the first Sofia chronicle, 1054 was mentioned about the "planting" of Ostromir by Izyaslav I Yaroslavich of Kiev in Novgorod and his death in the war against the Chud. However, still N.M. Karamzin drew attention, according to the testimony of the Afterword to the Gospel, ordered by Ostromir (Ostromir Gospel), he was alive in 1057.

Family
By D. Prozorovsky «О родстве святого Владимира по матери», в «Записках Императорской Академии Наук», V  and Shakhmatov (information about their ancestors gave to the authors of the Primary Chronicle Vyshata and Yang Vyshatich)


 * 1) Malk Lubchanin
 * 2) Malusha
 * 3) Dobrynya (governor)
 * 4) Konstantin Dobrynich
 * 5) Ostromir Konstantinovich (c995-c1060 + Feofana
 * 6) Vyshata
 * 7) Putyata Vyshatich
 * 8) Jan Vyshatich + Maria
 * 9) Varlaam Pechersky

Literature

 * Рыбаков Б. А. «Древняя Русь. Сказания. Былины. Летописи», Москва 1963.