Vsevolod Gavriil Mstislavich

Date of birth unknown; died Feb. 11, 1138. Prince of Novgorod (1117-32 and 1132-36), Pereiaslav (1132), Vyshgorod (1136), and Pskov (from 1137); grandson of Vladimir Vsevolodovich Monomakh; eldest son of Mstislav I and Christina of Sweden.

Vsevolod Gavriil Mstislavich conducted a number of campaigns in the Baltic region and the Rostov Land. The statute of the church courts (c. 1126) and the charter of the Church of St. John the Baptist on the Opoki (c. 1132) are attributed to him. (In the opinion of the Soviet historian A. A. Zimin, both of these documents date from the end of the 14th century.)

Vsevolod Gavriil Mstislavich distributed land to the monasteries and feudal lords and contributed to the enserfment of the smerdy (peasants). During the uprisings of the peasantry and the poor of Novgorod in 1132 and 1136 he was banished from the city. Elected prince of Pskov, Vsevolod Gavriil Mstislavich fought against Novgorod, but without success.