Prince of Smolensk

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

 * 1054–1057 Viacheslav I Yaroslavich
 * 1057–1060 Igor I Yaroslavich
 * 1060–1073 Sviatoslav I Yaroslavich
 * 1073–1077 Vladimir I Monomakh
 * 1077–1085 Vladimir II Vsevolodich

Monomakhovichi/Sviatoslavichi

 * 1092-1093 Mstislav I
 * 1093–1095 Iziaslav I Vladimirovich
 * 1095–1097 David I Sviatoslavich
 * 1097–1113 Sviatoslav II Vladimirovich and Yaropolk I
 * 1113–1125 Viacheslav II Vladimirovich

Monomakhovichi / Rostislavichi

 * 1125–1160 Rostislav I
 * 1160–1171 Roman I (1st time)
 * 1171–1172 Yaropolk II Romanovich (1st time)
 * 1172–1174 Roman I (2nd time)
 * 1174–1175 Yaropolk II Romanovich (2nd time)
 * 1175–1176 Mstislav I Rostislavich "The Brave"
 * 1176–1180 Roman I (3rd time)
 * 1180–1197 David II Rostislavich
 * 1197–1213 Mstislav II "The Old"
 * 1213–1219 Vladimir III Rurikovich
 * 1219–1230 Mstislav III Davidovich

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

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

 * since 1514 conquest by 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

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