Death of Vladimir Monomakh

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1. 1123–1125Kiev · Kievan Rus'In his later years Monomakh again ruled from Kiev, issued the Statute of Vladimir, and wrote Instruction to My Children urging unity among grand princes, just judgment, and church order; the text is a key source on Rus' political ethics.
2. 1125Kiev · Kievan Rus'Vladimir Monomakh died in Kiev and was buried near St. Sophia Cathedral. Historians generally hold that his death weakened Kiev's authority over the principalities, and Rus' entered a more pronounced period of feudal fragmentation.
3. 1125Principalities of Kievan Rus' · Kievan Rus'His son Mstislav I succeeded as Grand Prince of Kiev, while his other sons took Novgorod, Smolensk, and other lands. Succession largely followed the order of the Treaty of Lyubech, but princes' independence kept growing, sowing the seeds of later civil war.