GRAND DUKE OF KIEV

'Grand Duke of Kiev' was the title of the Kievan prince and the ruler of Kievan Rus in the 9th–13th centuries.
Rurik, a semi-legendary Scandinavian Varangian, was at the roots of Kievan Rus'. He founded the Rurikovich dynasty that would rule Kievan Rus', Ruthenian principalities and early Muscovite Tsardom for the next 700 years. Rurik's capital was the northern city of Novgorod. His successor Oleg relocated the capital to Kiev at around 880, thus laying the foundation of what has become known as Kievan Rus'.
While the early rulers of Rus' were Scandinavians, they gradually merged into the local Slavic population. Still, in the 11th century, Yaroslav, (called ''Jarisleif'' in Scandinavian chronicles) maintained the dynastic links, married a Swedish princess, and gave asylum to king Olaf II of Norway.
The movement of nobility also went in the opposite direction. According to Adam of Bremen, Anund Gårdske, a man from Kievan Rus' was elected king of Sweden, ca 1070. As he was a Christian, however, he refused to sacrifice to the Aesir at the Temple at Uppsala and he was deposed by popular vote.
The unity of Kievan Rus' gradually declined, and was all but gone by 1132. After that period Kievan Rus' shattered into a number of smaller states all of which contested for the throne of Kiev.
Kievan Rus' was finally destroyed by the Mongols in 1240, but the Riurikovich line persisted and continued to rule some Ruthenian principalities on the perіphery — medieval Halych, Moscow and Lithuanian states.
Rulers of Kievan Rus' held the titles Kniaz and later Velikiy Kniaz, traditionally translated as Grand Prince or Grand Duke
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Contents

List of rulers of Kievan Rus

Rulers of Kiev

Rulers of Kievan Rus'

See also

References

List of rulers of Kievan Rus

Rulers of Kiev

★ Askold and Dir (860?–882?), supposedly, killed by Oleg

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Rulers of Kievan Rus'

★ Oleg (882–912)

★ Igor (912–945)

★ Olga (Regent, 945–962)

★ Sviatoslav I (962–972)

★ Yaropolk I (972–980)

★ Vladimir I (980–1015)

★ Sviatopolk I (1015–1019)

★ Yaroslav I (1019–1054)

★ Iziaslav I (1054–1073) (first time)

★ Vseslav (1068–1069)

★ Sviatoslav II (1073–1076)

★ Iziaslav I (1076–1078) (second time)

★ Vsevolod I (1078–1093)

★ Sviatopolk II (1093–1113)

★ Vladimir II Monomakh (1113–1125)

★ Mstislav I (1125–1132)

★ Yaropolk II (1132–1139)

★ Viacheslav I (1139) (first time)

★ Vsevolod II (1139–1146)

★ Igor II (1146)

★ Iziaslav II (1146-1149) (first time)

★ George I (1149–1151) (first time)

★ Viacheslav I (1151–1155) (second time)

★ Iziaslav II (1151-1154) (second time)

★ Rostislav I (1154) (first time)

★ Iziaslav III (1154-1155) (first time)

★ George I (1155–1157) (second time)

★ Iziaslav III (1157–1158) (second time)

★ Rostislav I (1159-1167) (second time)

★ Iziaslav III (1162) (third time)

★ Mstislav II (1167–1169) (first time)

★ Gleb I (1169) (first time)

★ Mstislav II (1170) (second time)

★ Gleb I (1170–1171) (Second time)

★ Vladimir (1171)

★ Michael I (1171)

★ Roman I (1171–1173) (first time)

★ Vsevolod III (1173)

★ Rurik (1173) (first time)

★ Sviatoslav III (1174) (first time)

★ Yaroslav II (1174–1175) (first time)

★ Roman I (1175–1177) (second time)

★ Sviatoslav III (1177–1180) (second time)

★ Yaroslav II (1180) (second time)

★ Rurik (1180-1182) (second time)

★ Sviatoslav III (1182–1194) (third time)

★ Rurik (1194-1202) (third time)

★ Ingvar I (1202)

★ Rurik (1203-1205) (fourth time)

★ Roman II (1203-1205)

★ Rostislav II (1204–1206)

★ Rurik (1206) (fifth time)

★ Vsevolod IV (1206–1207) (first time)

★ Rurik (1207-10) (sixth time)

★ Vsevolod IV (1210–1214) (second time)

★ Ingvar I (1214)

★ Mstislav III (1214–1223)

★ Vladimir III (1223–1235)

★ Iziaslav IV (1235–1236)

★ Yaroslav III (1236–1238) (first time)

★ Michael II (1238–1239) (first time)

★ Rostislav III (1239)

★ Daniel I (1239–1240)

★ Michael II (1241–1246) (second time)

See also

★ List of Russian rulers

★ List of rulers of Halych and Volhynia

★ Genealogy of early Russian princes

References