Battle of the Cheryokha River (1067)

The Battle of the Cherex River date 1067 year

A place Chereko river

Cause The imposition of the tribute of the Estonians Izyaslav Yaroslavich

The result Victory of Vseslav

Opponents • The Principality of Polotsk

• Novgorod land

Commanders • Vseslav Bryachislavich

• Mstislav Izyaslavich

The battle on the river Cerecha (1067) - the victory of Polotsk prince Vseslav Bryachislavich over the army of the Novgorod governor Mstislav Izyaslavich.

History According to the " Novgorod First Chronicle "

After Volodimerov's death in Novgorod, Izyaslav put his son Mstislav; and triumphed on Chereki; running to Kyev, and on taking the hailstones, to stop.

Mstislav reigned in Novgorod in 1052. Izyaslav, sending to the place of his deceased elder brother to Novgorod his son, remained in the south, in Turov.

According to the Belarusian historian G. Semenchuk, the campaigns of the Polotsk prince Vseslav Bryachislavich to Pskov and Novgorod were provoked by the march of the Grand Duke of Kiev Izyaslav Yaroslavich to the Estonians in the Lower Dvina and their taxation [1].

The attacks of Vseslav on Pskov and Novgorod have traditionally [2] dated respectively 1065 and 1066 years. Likhachev DS and Yanin VL follow the chronicle date the second campaign in 1067, relating here and the battle of Cerecha. Details of the battle did not reach us. However, it is known that it ended with the victory of Polotsk prince Vseslav.

Pskov Vseslav besieged unsuccessfully, and after the victory in Cherekoh Novgorod took and robbed the church, including St. Sophia. After the defeat, Mstislav fled to the south, and on March 3, 1067, three Yaroslavichi defeated Vseslav at the Nemiga.

Subsequently, Mstislav participated in the suppression of the Kiev uprising in 1068. The next Novgorod prince was Gleb Svyatoslavich