Yury Bogolyubsky

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Yury Bogolyubsky
Yurievichi
FatherAndrey Bogolyubsky
ReligionEastern Orthodox Church

Yury Bogolyubsky (Russian: Юрий Боголюбский), known as Giorgi Rusi (Georgian: გიორგი რუსი, George the Rus') in the Kingdom of Georgia, was a Rus' prince of Novgorod (1172–1175). Born around 1160,[1] He was married to King Tamar of Georgia from 1185 until being divorced and exiled in 1188.

Reign

Son of Grand Prince Andrey Bogolyubsky of Vladimir-Suzdal, he ruled Novgorod from 1172 to 1175. He was dethroned and expelled after the murder of his father in 1175. Defeated in a series of internal wars, he finally found a shelter in the Northern Caucasus in the late 1170s. He was found among the Kipchak, with whom he hoped to restore his rights to his father's princedom in 1184–1185.

Marriage

In 1185, Georgian nobles headed by

Seljuk possessions of Rüm in the west and the Eldiguzids in Arran in the east. However, Tamar soon was disappointed in her husband and divorced him in 1187. Yuri was said to be a heavy drinker, ambitious, involved in sexual misdeeds, torture, and sodomy.[3][4] He both physically and verbally abused his wife, and with the full support of the Georgian nobility and Georgian Orthodox Church Yury was exiled from Georgia to Constantinople in 1188.[5]

Revolt

Yury allied himself with a powerful party of Georgian nobles led by

Geguti and captured several provinces in the south-western Georgia, but were eventually crushed by the Queen's devoted general Gamrekel Toreli at the battles of Tmogvi and Erusheti. The rebels capitulated and Yury was pardoned by Tamar. However, he revolted again in 1193 and invaded Kakheti province. Defeated in the vicinities of Kambechani, he was imprisoned in the Lurji Monastery in Tbilisi.[6]
Yury disappeared from history after. His tomb has not been found.

Legacy and popular culture

Tamar's marriage to the Rus prince Yuri became a subject of two resonant prose works in modern Georgia.

media, the Parliament of Georgia and the Patriarchate of the Georgian Orthodox Church.[9]

References

  1. ^ Edge of Empires: a History of Georgia by Donald Rayfield, page 109
  2. ^ Edge of Empires: a History of Georgia by Donald Rayfield
  3. ^ Histories and Eulogies of the Sovereigns, M216r
  4. doi:10.1007/s12119-021-09891-0
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  5. ^ History and Eulogy of Sovreigns
  6. ^ Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia by Donald Rayfield, page 112
  7. ^ Suny (1994), p. 290
  8. ^ Tillett, Lowell (1969), The Great Friendship: Soviet Historians on the Non-Russian Nationalities, p. 329.University of North Carolina Press
  9. PEN
    Bulletin of Selected Books. 53-54: 100

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Preceded by Prince of Novgorod
1172–1175 		Succeeded by
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