Council of Kiev (1195)

The Council of Kiev (1995) was organized by the Princes of Smolensk on June 1195 in Kiev. Ryurik Rostislavich, who was Grand Prince of Kiev after the death of his senior co-ruler, Svyatoslav Chernigovsky, called his brother Davyd Rostislavich to ponder questions about the future of the Kiev principality and "brotherhood" - that is, the redistribution of principalities to be ruled by the various princes. Participants in turn organized receptions for otheir relatives. First Ryurik for Davyd in Vyshgorod, then Rostislav Rurikovich for Davyd - in Belgorod, then  Davyd himself gave feasts for relatives in Kiev. The attempt of the Rostislavichi to limit the number of applicants for the Kiev volosts only to the offspring of Mstislav the Great (Roman Mstislavich of Volyn received the Porosye) faced opposition from Vsevolod the Big Nest and the Olgovichi (for more, see The internecine war in Russia (1196)).