Prince of Smolensk

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The Prince of Smolensk was the kniaz, the ruler or sub-ruler, of the Rus' Principality of Smolensk, a lordship based on the city of Smolensk. It passed between different groups of descendants of Grand Prince Iaroslav I of Kiev until 1125, when following the death of Vladimir Monomakh the latter's grandson Rostislav Mstislavich was installed in the principality, while the latter's father Mstislav I Vladimirovich became Grand Prince. It gained its own bishopric in 1136. It was Rostislav's descendants, the Rostaslavichi, who ruled the principality until the fifteenth-century. Smolensk enjoyed stronger western ties than most Rus' principalities.

## Kievan Rus' (Princes of Smolensk)

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* 1010–1015 Stanislav Vladimirovich

### Yaroslavichi

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* 1054–1057 Viacheslav I Yaroslavich
* 1057–1060 Igor I Yaroslavich
* 1060–1073 Sviatoslav I Yaroslavich
* 1073–1077 Vladimir I Monomakh
* 1077–1085 Vladimir II Vsevolodich

### Monomakhovichi/Sviatoslavichi

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* 1092-1093 Mstislav I
* 1093–1095 Iziaslav I Vladimirovich
* 1095–1097 David I Sviatoslavich
* 1097–1113 Sviatoslav II Vladimirovich and Yaropolk I
* 1113–1125 Viacheslav II Vladimirovich

### Monomakhovichi / Rostislavichi

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* 1125–1160 Rostislav I
* 1160–1171 Roman I (1st time)
* 1171–1172 Yaropolk II Romanovich (1st time)
* 1172–1174 Roman I (2nd time)
* 1174–1175 Yaropolk II Romanovich (2nd time)
* 1175–1176 Mstislav I Rostislavich "The Brave"
* 1176–1180 Roman I (3rd time)
* 1180–1197 David II Rostislavich
* 1197–1213 Mstislav II "The Old"
* 1213–1219 Vladimir III Rurikovich
* 1219–1230 Mstislav III Davidovich

### Rostislavichi / Mstislavichi

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* 1230–1232 Rostislav II Mstislavich
* 1232–1239 Sviatoslav III Mstislavich
* 1239–1249 Vsevolod I Mstislavich
* 1249–1278 Gleb I Rostislavich
* 1278–1279 Mikhail I Rostislavich
* 1279–1287 Theodore the Black
* 1297–1313 Aleksandr I Glebovich
* 1313–1359 Ivan I Aleksandrovich
* 1359–1386 Sviatoslav IV Ivanovich
* 1386–1392 Yury of Smolensk (1st time)
* 1392–1395 Gleb II Sviatoslavich
* 1395–1401 Roman II the Young, Lithuanian occupation
* 1401-1404 Yury of Smolensk (2nd time)
* since 1407 conquest by Grand Duchy of Lithuania

## Grand Duchy of Lithuania

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### Viceroys of Smolensk

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* ????–???? Alexander Daszek
* ????–???? Vasil Svyatoslavich
* 1482–1486 Mikalojus Radvila the Old
* 1486–1492 Ivan Ilinicz
* 1490–1499 Yuri Glebovich
* 1499–1500 Mikalaj Ilinicz
* 1500–1503 Stanislaw Kiszka
* 1503–1507 Yury Solohub
* 1507–1508 Yury Zenovich

### Voivodes of Smolensk

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* since 1514 conquest by Principality of Moscow

## Principality of Moscow

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### Voivodes of Smolensk

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* 1514–1517 Vasili Vasilyevich Shuisky
* 1517–1518 Boris Gorbaty
* 1520–1523 Ivan Vasilyevich Shuisky
* 1523–1525 Vasil Mykulinsky
* 1526–1527 Ivan Shchetina
* 1527–1530 Yury Pronsky
* 1531–1533 Alexander Khokholkov
* 1534–???? Nikita Obolensky, The Crippled
* 1547–???? Ivan Sredniy
* 1552–???? Ivan Zvenigorodskiy
* 1555–1556 Yury Meshcherskiy
* 1556–???? Alexei Yuryevich
* ????–???? Samson Turenin
* ????–???? Nikita Obolensky
* ????–???? Ivan Andreyevich Shuisky
* 1576–1577 Semeon Mezetsky
* 1579–???? Ivan Kurlyatev
* ????–???? Andrei Ivanovich Shuisky
* 1583–1584 Feodor Mosalsky
* 1584–1587 Andrei Zvenigorodkiy
* 1596–1602 Vasili Golitsyn
* 1602–1602 Nikita Trubetskoi
* 1602–1603 Grigori Velyaminov
* 1603–1605 Vasili Cherkassky
* 1605–???? Ivan Romodanovsky
* ????–???? Ivan Khovansky
* 1608–1611 Mikhail Shein / Peotr Gorchakov

## Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

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### Voivodes of Smolensk

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* 1611–1621 Mikolaj Glebovich
* 1621–1621 Filon Kmita / Andrzej Sapieha
* 1625–1639 Alexander Hosevski
* 1639–1643 Krzysztof Hosevski
* 1643–1653 Yury Glebovich
* 1653–1653 Paweł Jan Sapieha
* 1653–1654 Filip Obuchowicz

## Tsardom of Russia

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### Voivodes of Smolensk

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## References

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* Simon Franklin and Jonathan Shepard The Emergence of Rus, 750-1200, (Longman History of Russia, Harlow, 1996) ISBN 978-0582490918, ISBN 058249091X
* Janet Martin Medieval Russia, 980-1584, (Cambridge, 1995) ISBN 978-0521676366, ISBN 0521676363