Vladimir II Monomakh

Vladimir II Monomakh (1053–1125), son of Vsevolod I and a Greek princess possibly of the Monomachos family, ruled Smolensk, Chernigov and Pereyaslavl before taking Kiev. He convoked princely congresses, beginning with Lyubech in 1097, to unite the Rurikids, and routed the Cumans in 1111.

After the 1113 Kiev uprising he was invited to the throne, where he curbed usury and issued a statute added to Russkaya Pravda. His Instruction to his children survives. He died in 1125 and was succeeded by his son Mstislav.