Council of Kiev (1223)

The Council of Kiev (1223) was a very wide congress of Russian princes, composed by Mstislav Romanovich Kiev at the suggestion of his cousin Mstislav Mstislavich Prince of Halych and father-in-law of the last Polovtsian Khotyan Khan, whose possessions in the Northern Black Sea coast were subjected to the Mongol invasion . The Olgovichi Mstislav Svyatoslavich of Chernigov and Mikhail Vsevolodovich, son of the Grand Prince of Kiev Vsevolod Svyatoslavich and others also participated in the congress . At the congress, it was decided that if the Polovtsians were given to the Tatars, it would be harder for us and it would be better for us to meet them in a foreign land than on our own., despite the absence of Yuri Vsevolodovich . The forces of North-Eastern Russia came to the south after the defeat of the main Russian-Polovtsian forces at the Battle of the Kalka River (1223).