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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 its own bishopric in 1136. It was Rostislav's descendants, the Rostaslavichi, who 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 Monomakhovichi/Sviatoslavichi Monomakhovichi / Rostislavichi 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 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 Voivodes of Smolensk References