Prince of Smolensk

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 status as a diocesan see with its own bishop in 1136. Rostislav's descendants, the Rostaslavichi, 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

References

• 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