ABSTRACT
Evpraksia Vsevolodovna was one of the most well-known Rusian (meaning – of the medieval kingdom of Rus’) women in eleventh-century Europe, but her name does not bring much recognition even among twenty-fi rst-century scholars. The difference between the two groups is profound when we acknowledge that the goal of medievalists is to understand the medieval European world as it was, or as close as we can come, given the problems with source preservation, bias, etc. Many modern historians of medieval Europe have elided history, leaving out much of Eastern Europe from their narratives, which is one of the reasons for a volume such as this. This exclusion of half of medieval Europe, deliberate or otherwise, includes figures from Eastern Europe who play a role in the rest of the medieval world. Evpraksia Vsevolodovna is one of those figures, someone who plays a large role in the medieval world, is present in medieval sources, but is often absent in modern secondary sources.
