VYSHESLAV VLADIMIROVICH

Vysheslav Vladimirovich (knee 5) from the family of Rurik. The eldest son of St.. Vladimir Svyatoslavich. Genus. app. 978 g. Kn. Novgorod in 987 - 1010 (?) Gg. The chronicles mention that Vladimir planted Vysheslava in Novgorod, and that his mother was a kind of "chehinya". However Solovyov after Tatishchev inclined to believe that the mother Vysheslava was the first wife of Vladimir, some Varangian princess Olav. Vladimir supposedly married her in a time when he was in hiding overseas from Yaropolk.