State · 500 – 1471

Principality of Kyiv

A state of 500 – 1471 — 971 years in Europe. The atlas records 10 things within it — wars and battles 2 · people 8. Its line of rulers holds 44 people, 21 with dated terms.

Wikidata's English label: Principality of Kiev.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 971 years; 500 – 1471
Rulers: 44; the Grand Prince of Kyiv
Most ground: 146,800 km²; in 1111
Within it: 10; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Principality of Kyiv in 1111, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Principality of Kyiv in 1111, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 146,800 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Principality of Kyiv in 1111, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Principality of Kyiv in 1202, last mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

The line of Grand Prince of Kyiv - the office this state names as its head of state.

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

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Oleh the Wise	882 – 912	30 years	died by accidentWikidata's manner of death
Ihor of Kyiv	912 – 945	33 years	executedWikidata's manner of death	nephew or niece
Sviatoslav I of Kyiv	945 – 972	27 years	killedWikidata's manner of death	child
Yaropolk I of Kyiv	972 – 978	6 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Volodymyr the Great	980 – 1015	35 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Sviatopolk I of Kyiv	1015 – 1016	1 year	deposed or removedWikidata's end cause on the term	child
Yaroslav the Wise	1016 – 1018	2 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Sviatopolk I of Kyiv	1018 – 1019	1 year	deposed or removedWikidata's end cause on the term
Yaroslav the Wise	1019 – 1054	35 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Iziaslav I of Kyiv	1054 – 1073	19 years	removed by a coupWikidata's end cause on the term	child
Vsevolod I of Kyiv	1076 – 1077	1 year	left office aliveread off the dates alone	sibling
Iziaslav I of Kyiv	1077 – 1078	1 year	died in battleWikidata's manner of death	sibling
Vsevolod I of Kyiv	1078 – 1093	15 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Sviatopolk II of Kyiv	1093 – 1113	20 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	nephew or niece
Mstyslav I of Kyiv	1125 – 1132	7 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Yaropolk II of Kyiv	1132 – 1139	7 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Viacheslav I of Kyiv	1139 – 1139	under a year	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	sibling
Vsevolod II of Kyiv	1139 – 1146	7 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Ihor II of Kyiv	1146 – 1146	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone	sibling
Iziaslav II of Kyiv	1146 – 1149	3 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Yurii Dolhorukyi	1149 – 1150	1 year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Volodymyr III Mstyslavych	1171 – 1171	under a year	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	nephew or niece
Vsevolod the Big Nest	1173 – 1173	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Sviatoslav III of Kyiv	1173 – 1173	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Sviatoslav III of Kyiv	1176 – 1194	18 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Alexander Nevsky	1249 – 1263	14 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death

44 rulers, 21 with terms dated as terms, covering 882 – 1263. Median reign 6.5 years. 7 of 25 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

146,300 km² in 1075, 77,700 km² in 1225; at its largest 146,800 km² in 1125. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

coin, from 1388Lob Moneta Kiev 1388 · CC0

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1000 – 10994 rows

Eupraxia of Kyiv · person · 1071 – 1109
Iziaslav II of Kyiv · ruler · 1097 – 1154
Vsevolod II of Kyiv · ruler · 1094 – 1146
Viacheslav I of Kyiv · ruler · 1083 – 1154

1100 – 11995 rows · 1 wars and battles

Euphrosyne of Kyiv · person · 1130 – 1186
Riuryk Rostyslavych · ruler · 1140 – 1212
Agatha · religious leader · 1100
Niphont of Novgorod · religious leader · 1100 – 1156
Sack of Kyiv · battle · 1169

1200 – 12991 row · 1 wars and battles

Siege of Kyiv · battle · 1240

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood971 years
stood longer than 97% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held146,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 53% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median7 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 26% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record44
has more rulers on record than 97% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 403 – 1568, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1111, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q1483430 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.