 This biography of a European noble is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
Mstislav Romanovich the Old (Мстислав Романович Старый in Russian) (? - 1223), Prince of Pskov (1179 - ?), Smolensk (1197 - ?), Bilhorod, presently Bilohorodka (1206), Halych (? - ?) and Grand Prince of Kiev (1212-1223). Son of Roman Rostislavich.
Mstislav went to war against the Mongols of Genghis Khan in 1223 and was defeated at the Battle of the Kalka River by the Mongol generals, Jebe and Subutai, after which he was executed by suffocation (put under a giant wooden plate onto which Subutai, Jebe and other Mongol warlords danced and feasted).
| Preceded by Vsevolod IV |
Grand Prince of Kiev | Succeeded by Vladimir III |