Mstislaw

Mstislaw (Cyrillic Мстисла́в) is a Slavic male given name. It means "glorious avenger".

Well-known namesake:

Ruler

• Mistislaw (before 968 – after 1018), velvet ruler of the Abodrites in Mecklenburg
• Mstislav von Tschernigow (983-1036), Prince of Tmutorokan and Tschernigow
• Mstislav Isjaslavich (1054-1076), Prince of Novgorod
• Mstislav I (Russia) the Great (1076–1132), Grand Duke of Kiev
• Mstislav Jurjewitsch († 1162), Prince of Novgorod
• Mstislaw II (Russia) († 1170), Grand Duke of Kiev
• Mstislav Rostislavich († 1180), Prince of Novgorod
• Mstislaw III. († 1223), Grand Duke of Kiev
• Mstislaw Mstislawitsch (~ 1180–1228), Grand Duke of Galicia
• Mstislav Danylowitsch († after 1300), Prince of Lutsk and Volhynia

More name bearers

• Mstislav Valerianowitsch Dobuschinski (1875–1957), Russian painter
• Mstislav Vsevolodowitsch Keldysch (1911–1978), Russian scientist
• Mstislaw Leopoldowitsch Rostropowitsch (1927–2007), Russian cellist and conductor

• Mstyslaw (1898–1993), Ukrainian church leader

See also

• Mstislavl , Russian name of the Belarusian city of Mszislau