Ruler · 958 – 1015

Volodymyr the Great

Lived 958 – 1015; monarch. Grand Prince of Kyiv of Kyivan Rus', 980 – 1015; also in the line of Rurikids and Principality of Kyiv.

Wikidata's English label: Vladimir the Great.

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Lived: 958 – 1015; 57 years
In office: 35 years; one reign
Lines: 3; states
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

Grand Prince of Kyiv

Kyivan Rus' · the 5th of 21 dated reigns · 882 – 1194

1 before

Ihor of Kyiv912 – 945

Sviatoslav I of Kyiv945 – 972

Yaropolk I of Kyiv972 – 978

Volodymyr the Great980 – 1015

Sviatopolk I of Kyiv1015 – 1016

Yaroslav the Wise1016 – 1018

Sviatopolk I of Kyiv1018 – 1019

13 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadthis entry

Reigned 980 – 1015 · 35 years · came to it aged 24

Came to it: the sibling of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 1015, the year they died

Also in the line of Rurikids (4th of 21) and Principality of Kyiv (5th of 26).

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