Yaroslav II of Vladimir
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Yaroslav II Vsevolodovich, also transliterated as Iaroslav, was Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1238 to 1246. He collaborated with Batu Khan following the Mongol invasion, before he was ultimately poiso
Portrait from the Cathedral of the Archangel (17th century)
A helmet lost by Yaroslav in the aftermath of the Lipitsa Battle and retrieved by a peasant in 1808.
Töregene Khatun
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Töregene Khatun was the Great Khatun and regent of the Mongol Empire from the death of her husband Ögedei Khan in 1241 until the election of her eldest son Güyük Khan in 1246.
Yaroslav II of Vladimir
…honours. Two years later, he was again summoned to the east, this time by Güyük Khan in Karakorum. There he was poisoned by the Great Khan's mother Töregene and died a week after he had been allowed to return home. Yaroslav married his first wife c. 1205. She was a daughter of Yuri Konchakovich, Khan of the…
Bilingual Middle Chinese–Middle Mongol inscription of Töregene, supporting the reprinting of the Daozang, dated Year of the Rat (1240).