The siege of Kiev by the Pechenegs ( 1036 ) - a military action of the Pechenegs against the capital of Kievan Rus , begun after the death of Mstislav Chernigov and during the departure of Yaroslav Kiev in Novgorod.
| Siege of Kiev by the Pechenegs | |||
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| The main conflict: Russian-Pecheneg war | |||
 The defeat of the Pechenegs near Kiev 1036. Thumbnail of the Radziwill Chronicle | |||
| date of | 1036 | ||
| A place | Kiev | ||
| Total | rout of the Pechenegs | ||
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Described in The Tale of Bygone Years . It became the last Pecheneg invasion of Russia .
History
In 1036, Yaroslav became autocratic in the Russian land , uniting the Kiev and Chernigov sides of the Dnieper under his authority, when his brother Mstislav died in Chernigov without heirs. Yaroslav went to Novgorod to plant his eldest son, Vladimir, at that time.
Having learned about the beginning of the siege of Kiev by the Pechenegs, Yaroslav returned to the south with the Vikings and Slovenes . With these forces, he broke into the besieged Kiev, and together with local forces made a general outing .
Yaroslav used a battle formation divided into three regiments along the front, which Mstislav used in the unsuccessful Battle of Listven for Yaroslav ( 1024 ). The team of Yaroslav ( Varangians ) stood in the center, the people of Kiev on the right flank, the Novgorodians on the left. The battle lasted all day and ended with the complete victory of the Russians and the flight of the Pechenegs. During the flight, many Pechenegs drowned in Sethomli and other rivers.
Consequences
The chronicle connects with this victory the construction of St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev on the battlefield (although there are versions of its earlier construction) and the construction of a new Kiev fortress, "Yaroslav City."
After the defeat of the Pechenegs near Kiev and the defeat of the torques by three Yaroslavichs and Vseslav Polotsky ( 1060 ), the Polovtsy began to dominate the steppes.