Vseslav of Polotsk

Vseslav Bryachislavich, called the Seer (c. 1029–1101), was prince of Polotsk from 1044 and briefly grand prince of Kiev. Excluded from the Kievan succession as the only major Rurik prince not descended from Yaroslav the Wise, he raided the north.

After failing to take Pskov in 1065, he sacked Novgorod in 1066–1067, taking a bell from its cathedral to Polotsk. The three Yaroslavichi defeated him on the Nemiga in 1067 and seized him at peace talks.

Freed by the Kiev Uprising of 1068, he reigned in Kiev for seven months before securing Polotsk in 1071. He built Polotsk's Cathedral of Holy Wisdom and died on 24 April 1101.