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==Life== {{unreferenced section|date=February 2024}} {{Further|Feud of the Sviatoslavichi}} Yaropolk was given [[Kiev]] by his father [[Sviatoslav I of Kiev|Sviatoslav I]], who left on a military campaign against the [[Bulgarians|Danube Bulgars]]. Soon after Sviatoslav's death, however, civil war began between Yaropolk and his brothers. According to one [[chronicle]], Yaropolk's brother [[Oleg of Drelinia|Oleg]] killed Lyut, the son of Yaropolk's chief adviser and military commander [[Sveneld]]. Alternatively, Sveneld is identical to Sviatoslav, as Sveinald/Sveneld is the Norse rendition of the Slavic name. In an act of revenge and at Sveneld's insistence, Yaropolk went to war against his brother and killed him. Yaropolk then sent his men to [[Veliky Novgorod|Novgorod]], from which his other brother [[Vladimir the Great|Vladimir]] had fled upon receiving news of Oleg's death. Yaropolk became the sole ruler of [[Kievan Rus'|Rus']]. [[Image:yaropolk murder.jpg|thumb|Murder of Yaropolk]] In 980, Vladimir returned with the [[Varangians|Varangian]] [[Mercenary|mercenaries]] and attacked Yaropolk. On his way to Kiev, Vladimir seized [[Polotsk]] because [[Rogneda of Polotsk|Rogneda]], daughter of the Polotsk prince [[Rogvolod]], had chosen Yaropolk over him. Vladimir forced Rogneda to marry him. Then, Vladimir seized Kiev with assistance from a boyar, Blud, who had become Yaropolk's chief adviser upon the death of Sveneld. Blud betrayed Yaropolk by advising him to flee from Kiev to the town of [[Rodnya]] at the mouth of the [[Ros (river)|Ros' River]]. Vladimir besieged Rodnya and starved Yaropolk into negotiations. Yaropolk trusted Blud's and his brother's promises of peace and left for Vladimir's [[headquarters]], where he was killed in an ambush by two Varangians.
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