State · 862 – 1598

Rurikids

A state of 862 – 1598 — 736 years. Its line of rulers holds 16 people.

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Stood: 736 years; 862 – 1598
Rulers: 16; the Grand Prince of Kyiv
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Where it sits in time

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

Rulers

The line of Grand Prince of Kyiv.

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
Ihor of Kyiv	912 – 945	33 years	executedWikidata's manner of death
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
Ihor II of Kyiv	1146 – 1146	under a 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
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

16 rulers, 16 with terms dated as terms, covering 912 – 1263. Median reign 7 years. 6 of 20 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”.

Flag or arms

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

coat of arms, undatedCoin of Yaroslav the Wise (reverse) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Lobachev Vladimir

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 stood736 years
stood longer than 94% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
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 record16
has more rulers on record than 89% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 788 – 1672, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1230, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q210398 (CC0) · 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.