His body was conveyed in a canoe to Kief, and buried with much funeral pomp in the church of Notre Dame, by the side of the beautiful monument which had been erected to the memory of Vlademer.
Ysiaslaf expunged from the Russian code of laws the death penalty, and substituted, in its stead, heavy fines.

The Russian historians, however, record that it is impossible to decide whether this measure was the dictate of humanity, or if he wished in this way to replenish his treasury.
Vsevolod succeeded to the throne of his brother Ysiaslaf in the year 1078.

The children of Ysiaslaf had provinces assigned them in appanage.

Vsevolod was a lover of peace, and yet devastation and carnage were spread everywhere before his eyes.

Every province in the empire was torn by civil strife.