RULERS OF RUSSIA

RURIKOVICH
* Rurik                                            862 - 879

Great Princes of KIEV
  Oleg I (Helgu) "the Seer"                        879 - 913, Regent
* Igor I (Ingvar)                                  913 - 945
  Olga (Vologa)                                    945 - 964, Regent

in Pereyaslavets
* Svyatoslav I "the Warlike"                       964 - 972

in Kiev
* Yaropolk I                                       972 - 980, also in Novgorod 977
* Vladimir I                                       980 - 1015
* Svyatopolk I                                    1015 - 1016
* Yaroslav I                                      1016 - 1017
* Svyatopolk I                                    1017 - 1018
* Yaroslav I                                      1018 - 1024
* Mstislav I                                      1024
* Yaroslav I                                      1024 - 1054
* Izyaslav I of Turov                             1054 - 1068
* Vseslav I of Polotsk                            1068 - 1069
* Izyaslav I of Turov                             1069 - 1073
* Svyatoslav II of Chernigov                      1073 - 1076
* Vsevolod I of Pereyaslavl                       1076 - 1077
* Izyaslav I of Turov                             1077 - 1078
* Vsevolod I of Pereyaslavl                       1078 - 1093
* Svyatopolk II of Turov                          1093 - 1113
* Vladimir II Monomakh                            1113 - 1125
* Mstislav II of Novgorod                         1125 - 1132
* Yaropolk II of Pereyaslavl                      1132 - 1139
* Vyacheslav I of Turov                           1139
* Vsevolod II of Chernigov                        1139 - 1146
* Igor II of Novgorod-Severskiy                   1146 - 1147
* Izyaslav II                                     1146 - 1149
* Yuriy I of Suzdal                               1149 - 1150
* Izyaslav II                                     1150
  Vyacheslav I of Turov                           1150
* Yuriy I of Suzdal                               1150 - 1151
* Izyaslav II                                     1151 - 1154
  Vyacheslav I of Turov                           1151 - 1154
* Rostislav I of Smolensk                         1154 - 1155
* Izyaslav III of Chernigov                       1155
* Yuriy I of Suzdal                               1155 - 1157
* Izyaslav III of Chernigov                       1157
* Mstislav III of Volhynia                        1157 - 1158
* Rostislav I of Smolensk                         1158 - 1161
* Izyaslav III of Chernigov                       1161
* Rostislav I of Smolensk                         1161 - 1167
  Vasiliy I of Berestye                           1167
* Mstislav III of Volhynia                        1167 - 1169

Great Princes of VLADIMIR (1169-1362)
* Andrey I Bogolyubskiy                           1169 - 1174
* Yaropolk                                        1174 - 1175
* Mikhail II                                      1175 - 1176

in Rostov
  Mstislav IV                                     1175   (+1178)

in Vladimir
* Vsevolod III                                    1176 - 1212
* Yuriy II                                        1212 - 1216
* Konstantine I of Rostov                         1216 - 1218
* Yuriy II                                        1218 - 1238

To the Mongols of the Golden Horde             1238 - 1481

* Yaroslav II of Pereyaslavl                      1238 - 1246
* Svyatoslav III of Rostov                        1246 - 1247
* Mikhail II of Moscow                            1247 - 1248
* Andrey II of Suzdal                             1248 - 1252
* Alexander I "Nievskiy"                          1252 - 1263
* Yaroslav III of Tver                            1263 - 1272
* Vasiliy II of Kostroma                          1272 - 1276
* Dmitriy I of Pereyaslavl                        1276 - 1281
* Andrei III of Gorodets                          1281 - 1283
* Dmitriy I of Pereyaslavl                        1283 - 1284
  Andrei III of Gorodets                          1284 - 1286
  Dmitriy I of Pereyaslavl                        1286 - 1294
  Andrei III of Gorodets                          1291 - 1304
* Mikhail III  of Tver                            1304 - 1318
* Yuriy III of Moscow                             1318 - 1322
* Dmitriy II of Tver                              1322 - 1326
* Alexander II of Tver                            1326 - 1328
* Ivan I of Moscow                                1328 - 1341
* Simeon I of Moscow                              1341 - 1353
* Ivan II of Moscow                               1353 - 1359
* Dmitriy III of Suzdal                           1360 - 1362
* Dmitriy IV Donskoi of Moscow                    1362 - 1364
* Dmitriy III of Suzdal                           1364
* Dmitriy IV Donskoi of Moscow                    1364 - 1375
* Mikhail IV of Tver                              1371 - 1375

Great Princes of MOSCOW (1362-1547)
* Dmitriy I Donskoi of Moscow                     1375 - 1389
* Vasiliy I                                       1389 - 1425
* Vasiliy II                                      1425 - 1433
* Yuriy II of Zvenigorod                          1433
* Vasiliy II                                      1433 - 1434
* Yuriy II of Zvenigorod                          1434
  Vasiliy V "Squint-Eye"                          1434
* Vasiliy II                                      1434 - 1446
  Dmitriy V Shemyaka of Galitzia                  1446 - 1447
* Vasiliy II                                      1447 - 1462
* Ivan III                                        1456 - 1505
* Ivan IV of Tver                                 1485 - 1490
* Dmitriy VI                                      1498 - 1502
* Vasiliy III                                     1502 - 1533
* Ivan IV                                         1533 - 1584, Tsar from 1547
* Feodor II                                       1584 - 1598

GODUNOV family
* Boris                                           1598 - 1605
* Feodor III                                      1605

"TIME OF TROUBLES"
  False Dmitri I                                  1605 - 1606
* Vasiliy V Shuisky                               1606 - 1610
  False Dmitri II                                 1608 - 1610

  interregnum (Polish invasion)                1609 - 1613

ROMANOV family
* Mikhail                                         1613 - 1645
* Alexei                                          1645 - 1676
* Feodor IV                                       1676 - 1682
* Ivan V                                          1682 - 1696
* Peter I "the Great"                             1682 - 1725, Imperator of All Russia from 1721

SKAVRONSKY family
  Yekaterina I                                    1725 - 1727

ROMANOV family
* Peter II                                        1727 - 1730
* Anna                                            1730 - 1740

WELF family
* Ivan VI                                         1740 - 1741

ROMANOV family
* Elizabeth                                       1741 - 1762

OLDENBURG family
* Peter III                                       1762

ANHALT-ZERBST family
* Catherine II "the Great                         1762 - 1796

OLDENBURG family (called ROMANOV)
* Pavel "the Mad"                                 1796 - 1801
* Alexander I                                     1801 - 1825
* Nikolai I                                       1825 - 1855
* Alexander II                                    1855 - 1881
* Alexander III                                   1881 - 1894
* Nikolai II                                      1894 - 1917
* Mikhail (II)                                    1917 (1 day)

Provisional Government                        1917
Russia                                        1917 - 1922
Soviet Union                                  1922 - 1991
Republic                                      1991 - 

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