Family
He was the son of Vsevolod I (married in 1046) and Anastasia of Byzantium (d. 1067), whose father some give as Emperor Constantine IX Monomachos, but this is not attested in any reliable primary source.
Eupraxia of Kiev, a half-sister of Vladimir, became notorious all over Europe for her divorce from the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV on the grounds that he had attempted a black mass on her naked body.
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