Vladimir Monomakh becomes Grand Prince of Kiev

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The Rurikid prince of Pereyaslavl was invited by the Kievan assembly to take the throne after a riot against the moneylenders. He would reign for a dozen years, push back the Cuman nomads, and compose a famous Instruction for his sons on kingship and piety. His reign is remembered as the last great age of a unified Kievan state before the centrifugal forces of princely rivalry split Rus into warring fragments.