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Grand Prince of Kiev

The Grand Prince of Kiev (sometimes grand duke) was the title of the monarch of Kievan Rus', residing in Kiev (modern Kyiv) from the 10th to 13th centuries. In the 13th century, Kiev became an appanage principality first of the grand prince of Vladimir and the Mongol Golden Horde governors, and later was taken over by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Grand Prince of Kiev

Oleg the Wise
(first undisputed "Prince of Kiev")[1]
Yaroslav the Wise
(first undisputed "Grand Prince of Kiev")[2]

Rus' chronicles such as the Primary Chronicle are inconsistent in applying the title "grand prince" to various princes in Kievan Rus'.[3] Although most sources consistently attribute it to the prince of Kiev,[3] there is no agreement which princes were also "grand prince", and scholars have thus come up with different lists of grand princes of Kiev.[4]

Cross, Samuel Hazzard; Sherbowitz-Wetzor, Olgerd P. (1930). (PDF). Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Mediaeval Academy of America. p. 325. Retrieved 26 January 2023. (primary source)

The Russian Primary Chronicle, Laurentian Text. Translated and edited by Samuel Hazzard Cross and Olgerd P. Sherbowitz-Wetzor (1930)

Dimnik, Martin (January 2004). . Mediaeval Studies. 66: 253–312. doi:10.1484/J.MS.2.306512. Retrieved 27 February 2023.

"The Title "Grand Prince" in Kievan Rus'"

Halperin, Charles J. (2022). (PDF). Leeds: Arc Humanities Press. p. 107. ISBN 9781802700565. Retrieved 5 March 2023.

The Rise and Demise of the Myth of the Rus' Land

Jusupović, Adrian (2022). . Leiden: Brill. p. 268. ISBN 9789004509306.

The Chronicle of Halych-Volhynia and Historical Collections in Medieval Rus'

Martin, Janet (2004). . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521368322. (digital printing 2004)

Medieval Russia: 980–1584

Ostrowski, Donald (2018). . Canadian-American Slavic Studies. 52 (1): 30–49. doi:10.1163/22102396-05201009.

"Was There a Riurikid Dynasty in Early Rus'?"