Svyyatoslav Vladimirovich of the Drevilians (c982-1015)

Svyatoslav Vladimirovich (circa 982 - 1015 ) - prince Drevlyansky, son of Vladimir Svyatoslavich.

Biography
Most researchers in the list of Vladimir Svyatoslavich's children put Svyatoslav behind Yaroslav. The order of seniority of Vladimir Svyatoslavich's sons remains debatable. But, if Svyatoslav was the Malfrida's, he most certainly could have been born in 982. On this basis, N. Baumgarten and some other researchers considered Svyatoslav older than Yaroslav.

Around 990, Svyatoslav received the rule of the land of the Drevlians.

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In 1015, after learning about the death of Boris and Gleb, Svyatoslav left his capital and tried to flee to the Carpathians. The pursuit overtook the prince on the shore of Opier near the present town of Skole. On the banks of the Stryi River, seven of Svyatoslav's sons were killed in the battle, and the village in that place is still called Semiginiv (in memory of the seven dead). The legend tells of the brutal battle between Skole and Grebenov. The entire valley along the Opora was covered with the bodies of the dead. Prince Svyatoslav died in this battle, and his followers refused to enter Svyatopolk's service and settled in the Beskids, setting the beginning of Slavsky. Svyatoslav's daughter (or wife, according to other sources), Paraskovia (Parashka) fled to the top of the mountain and when she was reached by Svyatopolk's soldiers, died, according to legend, by jumping from the top of the mountain. At present the mountain is named in her honor Parashko.

Unlike the other two brothers killed by Svyatopolk, Boris and Gleb, Svyatoslav was not ranked as a saint.

The death of Svyatoslav and the power struggle between Vladimir Svyatoslavich's sons deprived the Carpathian Croats of their last ally, and the Borzhava and Latoritsa valleys were annexed by the Hungarians. Heir to the Hungarian throne, Duke of Imre, received the title of dux exercitur regis of the Russian brand V.Pashuto tried to prove that the Russian mark is a settlement of the royal guard near the Hungarian capital. We are talking about the settlement of Orosvar (later Orosfolvo, now Orosi ) near Vysehrad, where the guardsmen who were guarding the royal palace lived, and their descendants. This guards could have come from the time of Svyatoslav Igorevich, who was an ally of the Hungarians, just as the Russian corps appeared in Byzantium. But one settlement of the guardsmen was not enough for the organization of the Russian mark and the magnificent title of the heir to the throne. The Russian brand could only have been the newly conquered principalities of the Carpathian Croats. The Jozhansko-Zemplinsky principality of Labortz was defeated yetArpad at the turn of the IX-X centuries. At the beginning of the XI century only the Borzhavian principality was preserved, as evidenced by the system of bins on the Hungarian borders. It was the annexation of the Borzhavian principality that could lead to the organization of a separate Russian mark on the lands of Transcarpathia, Pryushivshchina and Nirshaga, which was handed over to the Duke of Imre. .

Numerous toponyms (Skole, Slavsk, Svyatoslav (Skole suburbs), Slavkov (the tributary of the Opora), Semigins, Opir (Opor), Svyatoslavle tract, Svyatoslavk river, Svyatoslav's grave) testify to the legend of Svyatoslav's death. Excavations of the mound, called Svyatoslav's grave, even with a critical approach to their results, have certified that this is the burial of a noble vigilante of the 11th century. Perhaps it was Prince Svyatoslav. Now a monument to the work of the famous Lviv sculptor T. Brig is erected on his grave.

Family
The records can be interpreted in such a way that Svyatoslav's mother was a Czech woman. This can explain the only reliable fact of his biography: in 1015, after his father's death and Svyatopolk Okayanny's revival, Svyatoslav fled from him "to the Ugra Mountains" (Carpathians), that is, in the direction of the Czech Republic, but Svyatopolk's servants caught up and killed him. Tatishchev calls his mother Malfrida. Nikon's Chronicle reports that in 1002 Svyatoslav had a son, Jan (that is, John). There is no more information, nor is there any confidence in the veracity of this news. The flight of Svyatoslav through the Carpathians, as well as the name of his son Jan, suggest that his wife could be the daughter of the last Borzhav prince, who with the help of such an alliance hoped to defend the independence of his principality. There is a version that Svyatoslav's wife was a Hungarian princess. V. Shusharin and I. Sheker believe that Svyatoslav Vladimirovich was married to the daughter of Hungarian King Stefan I, to whom she fled in 1015. There is no confirmation of this version in the Hungarian sources.