Prince of Smolensk explained

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)

• 1010–1015 Stanislav Vladimirovich

Yaroslavichi

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

Viceroys of Smolensk

• ????–???? 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

• since 1514 conquest by Principality of Moscow

Principality of Moscow

Voivodes of Smolensk

• 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

Voivodes of Smolensk

• 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

Voivodes of Smolensk

References

• Simon Franklin and Jonathan Shepard The Emergence of Rus, 750-1200, (Longman History of Russia, Harlow, 1996),
• Janet Martin Medieval Russia, 980-1584, (Cambridge, 1995),