The ability to call the menu by right-clicking on an empty space with items:

• Hide all but the highlighted princes. Even hide their brothers.
• Clear Selection
• Save current tree view to pdf/jpg/…

List of all princes. The ability to select any princes from the list and build a tree up to the selected tribe, which would show and highlight the selected princes, while hiding as many as possible. This is very useful if you need information on specific princes.

In case of identical names, display the dates of life. When hovering over a name in the list, show information with all ancestors and a short biography.

Make a smart search for princes, suggesting options as you type.

Make zooming in Firefox smoother. In Chrome, Opera and Safari everything is fine.

By clicking the "Show all" button, you often end up in front of a blank screen, the tree completely goes beyond the boundaries of the visible area. To correct.

When the window size increases, the tree-container borders do not increase - as a result, not all available space is used. You have to refresh the page. To correct.

Knee numbers above and below the diagram, appearing as the knees open. By clicking on the number of the knee, the scheme collapses to this knee, on the second click, the previous view is restored. By hovering over the number of the knee, the number of people in this knee is displayed. And, for example, the general characteristics of this time, the most important events that took place during this generation. What to do when the illuminated painted lines of the princes intersect?

List of trips in the pull-down menu. By clicking on the hike of interest, all participants are highlighted.

Now Rurik and Prophetic Oleg are the second tribe, and the root and its lines are made invisible (to match the background color). Is there a more normal solution to start a tree with two roots?

Now double-clicking zooms in. I think it should be removed/replaced with something more useful.

Make a separate function for the location of the tree at startup. Now the same function is used, which centers the tree when you click on its elements. It is not possible to achieve an acceptable arrangement of the tree both at the start and at the click.

Select the Grand Dukes.

Make lists for cities: under whose authority (prince, principality, governors ...) were in time.

Not a fully thought out idea: the ability to paint the background under the pedigree in different colors, where the color would indicate a specific region. Since the children usually ruled in the father's fiefdom, this should make sense. Here we will check.

Make it easy to download and view the pedigree painting (source.data).

Reports of all inaccuracies (especially actual ones) and broken buttons are welcome. Advice, suggestions and wishes are also welcome.

4. Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (04/17/1894-09/11/1971)

Soviet state and party leader. First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR from 1958 to 1964. Hero of the Soviet Union, Three times Hero of Socialist Labor. The first laureate of the Shevchenko Prize, years of government 07.09.1. (Moscow).

Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev was born in 1894 in the village of Kalinovka, Kursk province, in the family of miner Sergei Nikanorovich Khrushchev and Xenia Ivanovna Khrushcheva. In 1908, having moved with his family to the Uspensky mine near Yuzovka, Khrushchev became an apprentice fitter at a factory, then worked as a fitter at a mine and, as a miner, was not taken to the front in 1914. In the early 1920s, he worked in the mines, studied at the working faculty of the Donetsk Industrial Institute. Later he was engaged in economic and party work in the Donbass and Kyiv. From January 1931 he was at party work in Moscow, in the years he was the first secretary of the Moscow regional and city committees of the party - the Moscow Committee and the Moscow City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. In January 1938 he was appointed First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. In the same year he became a candidate, and in 1939 - a member of the Politburo.

During the Second World War, Khrushchev served as a political commissar of the highest rank (a member of the military councils of a number of fronts) and in 1943 received the rank of lieutenant general; led the partisan movement behind the front line. In the first post-war years, he headed the government in Ukraine. In December 1947, Khrushchev again headed the Communist Party of Ukraine, becoming the first secretary of the Central Committee of the CP (b) of Ukraine; he held this post until his move to Moscow in December 1949, where he became the first secretary of the Moscow Party Committee and secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b). Khrushchev initiated the consolidation of collective farms (collective farms). After Stalin's death, when the chairman of the council of ministers left the post of secretary of the Central Committee, Khrushchev became the "master" of the party apparatus, although until September 1953 he did not have the title of first secretary. Between March and June 1953, he attempted to seize power. In order to eliminate Beria, Khrushchev entered into an alliance with Malenkov. In September 1953, he took the post of First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU. In June 1953, a struggle for power began between Malenkov and Khrushchev, in which Khrushchev won. In early 1954, he announced the start of a grandiose program for the development of virgin lands in order to increase grain production, and in October of that year he headed the Soviet delegation in Beijing.

The most striking event in Khrushchev's career was the 20th Congress of the CPSU, held in 1956. At a closed meeting, Khrushchev condemned Stalin, accusing him of mass extermination of people and an erroneous policy that almost ended in the liquidation of the USSR in the war with Nazi Germany. The result of this report was unrest in the countries of the Eastern bloc - Poland (October 1956) and Hungary (October and November 1956). In June 1957, the Presidium (formerly the Politburo) of the Central Committee of the CPSU organized a conspiracy to remove Khrushchev from the post of First Secretary of the Party. After his return from Finland, he was invited to a meeting of the Presidium, which, by seven votes to four, demanded his resignation. Khrushchev convened a Plenum of the Central Committee, which overturned the decision of the Presidium and dismissed the "anti-Party group" of Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich. He strengthened the Presidium with his supporters, and in March 1958 he took the post of Chairman of the Council of Ministers, taking all the main levers of power into his own hands. In September 1960, Khrushchev visited the United States as head of the Soviet delegation to the UN General Assembly. During the assembly, he managed to hold large-scale negotiations with the heads of governments of a number of countries. His report to the Assembly contained calls for general disarmament, the immediate elimination of colonialism, and the admission of China to the UN. During the summer of 1961, Soviet foreign policy became increasingly harsh, and in September the USSR broke a three-year moratorium on nuclear weapons testing with a series of explosions. On October 14, 1964, Khrushchev was relieved of his duties as First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and a member of the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee by the Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU. He was succeeded, becoming First Secretary of the Communist Party, and becoming Chairman of the Council of Ministers. After 1964, Khrushchev, while retaining his seat on the Central Committee, was essentially retired. Khrushchev died in Moscow on September 11, 1971.

All Rurikoviches were descendants of formerly independent princes, descended from two sons of Yaroslav the Wise: the third son of Svyatoslav (Svyatoslavichi with branches) and the fourth son, Vsevolod (Vsevolodovichi, who are better known along the line of his eldest son as Monomakhovichi). This explains the tough and prolonged political struggle in the 30-40s of the XII century. it was between the Svyatoslavichs and the Monomashichs at the grand-ducal table after the death of Mstislav the Great. The eldest of the sons of Svyatoslav Yaroslavich - Yaroslav became the ancestor of the Ryazan princes. Of these, as part of the Russian boyars of the XVI-XVII centuries. only the descendants of the specific princes of the Ryazan land remained - the princes of Pronsky. Some editions of genealogical books consider the descendants of the Ryazan princes of Yeletsky, others derive them from another son of Svyatoslav, Oleg, who reigned in the Chernihiv lands. The genera of the Chernigov princes trace their origin from the three sons of Mikhail Vsevolodovich (great-great-grandson of Oleg Svyatoslavich) - Semyon, Yuri, Mstislav. Glukhovsky prince Semyon Mikhailovich became the ancestor of the princes Vorotynsky, Odoevsky. Prince of Tarusa Yuri Mikhailovich - Mezetsky, Baryatinsky, Obolensky. Karachaevsky Mstislav Mikhailovich-Mosalsky, Zvenigorodsky. Of the princes of Obolensky, later many princely families emerged, among which the most famous are the Shcherbatovs, Repnins, Serebryany, Dolgorukovs.
More births came from Vsevolod Yaroslavovich and his son, Vladimir Monomakh. The descendants of the eldest son of Monomakh - Mstislav the Great, the last Grand Duke of Kievan Rus, were numerous Smolensk princes, of whom the Vyazemsky and Kropotkin families are most famous. Another branch of the Monomashich descended from Yuri Dolgoruky and his son, Vsevolod the Big Nest. His eldest son, Konstantin Vsevolodovich, bequeathed to his sons: Vasilka - Rostov and Beloozero, Vsevolod - Yaroslavl. Rostov princes descend from the eldest son of Vasilko Konstantinovich - Boris (of which the Shchepin, Katyrev, Buynosov families are most famous). From the second son of Vasilko Konstantinovich - Gleb went the birth of Belozersky princes, among them - the princes of Ukhtomsky, Sheleshpansky, Vadbolsky, Beloselsky. The only heir of the Yaroslavl prince Vsevolod Konstantinovich, Vasily, had no sons. His daughter Maria married Prince Fyodor Rostislavich from the family of Smolensk princes and brought the Yaroslavl principality as a dowry, in which a change of dynasties (different branches of the Monomashichs) took place in this way.
Another son of Vsevolod the Big Nest, Yaroslav, became the founder of several princely dynasties. From his eldest son Alexander Nevsky, through his son Daniil Alexandrovich, the dynasty of Moscow princes went, who later became the central link in the unification process. The brothers of Alexander Nevsky - Andrei Suzdalsky and Yaroslav of Tverskoy became the founders of these princely families. Of the Sudal princes, the most famous are the Shuisky princes, who gave Russia at the beginning of the 17th century. king. Tver princes throughout the XIV century. waged a fierce struggle with representatives of the Moscow house for the grand prince's table, with the help of the Horde, physically exterminating their opponents. As a result, the Moscow princes became the ruling dynasty and did not have family formations. The Tver branch was cut short after the flight to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania of its last Grand Duke, Mikhail Borisovich (1485), and the inclusion of these lands in the national territory. The composition of the Russian boyars included the descendants of the specific princes of the Tver land - the princes Mikulinsky, Telyatevsky, Kholmsky. The youngest son of Vsevolod the Big Nest - Ivan received Starodub Ryapolovsky (east of capital Vladimir) as an inheritance. Of the descendants of this branch, the most famous are the Pozharsky, Romodanovsky and Paletsky families.
Gediminovichi. Another group of princely families were the Gediminoviches, the descendants of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gedimin, who ruled in 1316-1341. Gedimin led an active policy of conquest and was the first to call himself "King of Lithuanians and Russians." Territorial expansion continued under his sons, Olgerd was especially active (Algirdas, 1345-77). In the XIII-XIV centuries. the lands of the future Belarus and Ukraine were conquered by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, and here the sovereignty of the hereditary lines of the Rurikoviches was lost. Under Olgerd, the Chernihiv-Seversky, Kiev, Podolsk, Volyn, Smolensk lands became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The Gediminovich family was quite branched, his descendants were on thrones in different principalities, and one of his grandsons, Jagiello Olgerdovich, after the signing of the Kreva Union in 1385, became the founder of the Polish royal dynasty of the Jagiellons. The descendants of Gediminas, who settled in the reigns in the lands that were previously part of Kievan Rus, or transferred to the Moscow service in the process of forming the state territory of Russia, are called Russian Gediminoviches. Most of them come from the two sons of Gediminas - Narimant and Olgerd. One of their branches came from the eldest grandson of Gediminas - Patrikey Narimantovich. Under Basil I at the beginning of the fifteenth century. Two sons of Patrikey, Fedor and Yuri, transferred to the Moscow service. The son of Fedor - Vasily on the estates on the river. Khovanke received the nickname Khovansky and became the ancestor of this princely family. Prominent politicians Vasily and Ivan Yurievich were called the Patrikeevs. The sons of Vasily Yuryevich were Ivan Bulgak and Daniil Shchenya, the founders of the princes Bulgakov and Shchenyatev. The Bulgakovs, in turn, were divided into Golitsyns and Kurakins - from the sons of Ivan Bulgak, Mikhail Golitsa and Andrey Kuraki. His distant descendant Fyodor Mikhailovich Mstislavsky left for Russia in 1526. The Trubetskoy and Belsky descended from the famous Grand Duke of Lithuania Olgerd. The great-grandson of Dmitry Olgerdovich Trubetskoy (in the city of Trubetskoy) Ivan Yuryevich and his nephews Andrei, Ivan and Fedor Ivanovich in 1500 passed into Russian citizenship along with their small principality. The grandson of Dmitry Olgerdovich's brother - Vladimir Belsky - Fyodor Ivanovich went to the Russian service in 1482. All the Gediminoviches occupied a high official and political position in Russia and played a prominent role in the history of the country.
The origin of the princely families of Rurikovich and Gediminovich is more clearly shown in the diagrams. (Tables 1, 2, 3)

Table 1. Scheme of the origin of the main princely families of Rurikovich

Table 2. Rurikovich

Table 3. Scheme of the origin of the main princely families of the Russian Gediminids

The saying “all people are brothers” has a genealogical basis. It's not just that we are all distant descendants of the biblical Adam. In the light of the topic under consideration, another ancestor stands out, whose descendants made up a significant layer in the social structure of feudal Russia. This is Rurik, the conditional ancestor of the "natural" Russian princes. Although he had never been to Kyiv, and even more so to Vladimir and Moscow, everyone who occupied the grand ducal tables until the end of the 16th century considered themselves his descendants, thus substantiating their political and land rights. In the increase in offspring, new princely branches appeared already from real ancestors, and in order to distinguish them from each other (including from the standpoint of tribal possessions and priority rights to it), first tribal nicknames appear, and then surnames.
Two main stages can be distinguished. The first is the formation of princely branches, the assignment to them of names ending in -ich, -ovich (X-XIII centuries, ancient and specific Russia). It is not known how they called themselves, but in the chronicles they are called Monomashichi (Monomakhovichi), Olgovichi (Olegovichi), etc. In the first patronymic (from the name-nickname of the ancestor) names of the princely branches, belonging to the princely family was emphasized, and the seniority of the branch was determined by the name of the ancestor, which, first of all, with the ladder (next) right of inheritance determined possessory rights. A significant reason for the absence of toponymic surnames among the specific princes of the pre-Moscow period was that they passed by seniority from inheritance to inheritance. Surnames derived from the name of the area appear after the liquidation of the next right of inheritance. In this case, the carriers of toponymic surnames were, as a rule, from among the service princes, less often from the old Moscow boyars. In this case, the suffix -sky, -sky was used: Volynsky, Shuisky, Shakhovskoy, etc. At the same time, the surnames often did not reflect the former possessive rights, but simply the area from which their carriers transferred to the Moscow service, especially among the "outgoers" - Cherkassky, Meshchersky, Siberian, etc.
The second stage falls on the period of formation of the Russian centralized state. There is a growth of princely branches and the formation of new clans, each of which is assigned its own nickname, at the turn of the 15th-16th centuries. turning into a surname. The specific hierarchy is replaced by localism - a system of service correspondence of clans in relation to each other and the monarch. Surnames appear at this stage, as if by official (hierarchical) necessity, are assigned to offspring, outwardly emphasizing belonging to a genus that occupied a certain social niche. V. B. Korbin believes that in Russia the design of princely surnames is directly related to the emergence of the category of “serving” princes (XV century). Already in the Moscow service, these princely families gave offshoots, each of which was assigned not only land holdings, but also surnames, as a rule, patronymic ones. So, Khilkovs, Tatevs stood out from the princes of Starodub; from Yaroslavl - Troekurovs, Ushatye; from the Obolenskys - Nogotkovs, Strigins, Kashins (for details, see Table 1).
In the 16th century, the process of forming surnames among the boyars was actively going on. A well-known example is the evolution of the nickname of the family, which gave a new royal dynasty at the beginning of the 17th century. Five sons of Andrey Kobyla became the founders of 17 famous families of Russia, each of which had its own surname. The Romanovs began to be called that only from the middle of the 16th century. Their ancestors are Kobylins, Koshkins, Zakharyins, Yurievs. But even during this period, the central government preferred surnames formed from personal nicknames. Sometimes territorial names were preserved as a kind of prefix. This is how double surnames appeared, while the first one indicated the ancestor and was patronymic, the second one reflected the common affiliation, and, as a rule, toponymic: Zolotye-Obolensky, Shchepin-Obolensky, Tokmakov-Zvenigorodsky, Ryumin-Zvenigorodsky, Sosunov-Zasekin, etc. d. Double surnames reflected not only the incompleteness of the process of their formation, but also the peculiar policy of the great Moscow princes, aimed at interrupting tribal territorial ties. It also mattered when and how the lands recognized Moscow's supremacy. Rostov, Obolensky, Zvenigorodsky and a number of other clans retained territorial names in their offspring, but Starodubsky were not allowed to be called by this generic name even in the middle of the 17th century, as evidenced by a petition addressed to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich from Grigory Romodanovsky, who represented the interests of the older branch of this, once powerful but disgraced kind. By the way, a possible reason for the ban on the part of the Romanovs could be that toponymic surnames indirectly reminded of the tribal seniority of the Rurikovichs. Officially, the nobles were allowed to be called, in addition to their surnames, the name of land holdings. A charter to the nobility (1785). However, by that time the surnames had already settled down, the nature of land relations had fundamentally changed, and this tradition, popular in Europe, did not take root in Russia. Of the families of Russian “natural” princes that existed at the end of the 19th century, Karnovich E.P. has 14 whose surnames were formed from the names of estates: Mosalsky, Yelets, Zvenigorodsky, Rostov, Vyazemsky, Baryatinsky, Obolensky, Shekhonsky, Prozorovsky, Vadbolsky, Sheleshpansky, Ukhtomsky, Beloselsky, Volkonsky.
Below are the main princely families of the Rurikoviches and the Russian branch of the Gediminoviches with the branches formed from them with the surnames assigned to them (Tables 4, 5).

Table 4. Rurikovich. Monomashici

Table 5. Gediminovichi

Milevich S.V. - Methodological guide for studying the course of genealogy. Odessa, 2000.

On the image you can see the succession of the successive rulers of Russia, as well as their numerous relatives: sons, daughters, sisters and brothers. The genealogical tree of the Rurikids, the scheme of which begins with the Varangian prince Rurik, is the most interesting material for historians to study. It was it that helped researchers find out interesting facts about the descendants of the Grand Duke - the founder of the Old Russian state, it became a symbol of the unity of family members, the power and continuity of generations.

Where does the tree of the Rurik dynasty originate from?

Prince Rurik himself and his wife Efanda are semi-mythical figures, and among historians there are still disputes about their possible origin. The most common version, based on the Tale of Bygone Years, says that a native of the Varangians was voluntarily invited to reign, although some suggest that Rurik and his squad captured Novgorod during one of their campaigns. There are also opinions that the founder of the royal dynasty had Danish roots and was called Rorik. According to the Slavic version, the origin of his name is associated with the designation of a falcon in the language of one of the tribes. There are those who believe that the prince, as a historical figure, did not exist at all and was a fictional character.

Ambition pushed the descendants of Rurik to internecine wars and murders. In the battle for the throne, the strongest won, the loser was waiting for death. The bloody divisions of the lands were accompanied by fratricide. The first happened between the sons of Svyatoslav: Yaropolk, Oleg and Vladimir. Each of the princes wanted to get power in Kyiv and for this purpose was ready for any sacrifice. So, Yaropolk killed Oleg, and he himself was destroyed by Vladimir. The winner became the Grand Duke of Kiev. This bright historical figure deserves to be told about her in more detail.

Coming to power of Vladimir Svyatoslavich

A photo of the family tree of Rurikovich with dates of reign shows that the reign of Svyatoslav Igorevich's son, Prince Vladimir, falls at the end of the 10th century. He was not a legitimate son, since his mother was the housekeeper Malusha, but according to pagan customs he had the right to inherit the throne from his father of princely origin. However, the story of his birth caused many smiles. For his low birth, Vladimir was dubbed "robichich" - the son of a slave. Vladimir's mother was removed from raising the child and the boy was handed over to the combatant Dobrynya, who is Malusha's brother.

When Svyatoslav died, a struggle for power broke out in Kyiv between Yaropolk and Oleg. The latter, retreating during the battle with his brother, fell into a ditch and was crushed to death by horses. The throne of Kyiv passed to Yaropolk, and Vladimir, having learned about this, moved with Dobrynya to the Varangian lands to gather an army.

Together with his soldiers, he conquered Polotsk, which was at that time on the side of Kyiv, and decided to marry Yaropolk's bride, Princess Rogneda. She did not want to take the son of a slave as her husband, which greatly offended the prince and aroused his rage. He forcibly took the girl as his wife and killed her entire family.

To overthrow Yaropolk from the throne, Vladimir went to the trick. He lured his brother to negotiations, where the prince of Kiev was stabbed with swords by the warriors of Vladimir. So power in Kyiv was concentrated in the hands of the third son of Svyatoslav Igorevich, Grand Duke Vladimir. Despite such a bloody background, in his reign a lot was done for the development of Russia. The most significant merit of Vladimir is considered to be the baptism of Russia in 988. From that moment on, our state turned from pagan into Orthodox and received a new status in the international arena.

Branching of the family tree of the Rurik dynasty

The direct heirs through the line of the first prince were:

• Igor
• Olga
• Svyatoslav
• Vladimir

There are documents in which you can find references to Igor's nephews. According to sources, their names were Igor and Akun, but little is known about them. Branching in the scheme of the Rurikovich tree began after the death of the great Kiev prince Vladimir. In the formerly single clan, a struggle for power began between the princes, and feudal fragmentation only aggravated the situation.

So, the son of the Kiev prince Vladimir, Svyatopolk the Accursed, in the battle for the throne killed his brothers Boris, Gleb and Svyatoslav. However, another figure claimed power, which can be seen in the photo of the family tree of the Rurik dynasty. Svyatopolk's opponent was Prince Yaroslav the Wise. Between the two pretenders to the throne, a destructive internecine war was waged for a long time. It ended with the victory of Yaroslav in the battle on the Alta River. Kyiv passed into the power of Yaroslav the Wise, and Svyatopolk was recognized as a traitor to the Rurik family.

Yaroslav the Wise died in 1054, after which the tree changed radically. Over the years of Yaroslav's reign, the unity of the clan came to an end, the state was divided into destinies with its own way of life, laws, power and government. Most of the inheritance and lands were divided among the three sons of the Wise:

• Izyaslav - Kyiv, Novgorod
• Vsevolod - Rostov-Suzdal possessions and the city of Pereyaslavl
• Svyatoslav - Murom and Chernihiv

As a result, the previously unified power split and the so-called triumvirate was formed - the rule of the three princes of Yaroslavich.

In specific lands, local dynasties began to form. The photo shows that it was from this period that the genus began to expand greatly. This happened mainly due to the large number of dynastic marriages that princes entered into in order to increase their authority, maintain and consolidate power. Previously, only the most influential and significant princes could afford to look for a spouse abroad. Now, many people have begun to use this privilege.

Family tree of Rurikovich: branching scheme

There could no longer be any talk of the original unity of the genus, the branches multiplied and intertwined. Let's take a closer look at the largest of them.

Izyaslavichi of Polotsk

The line got its name from the founder of the branch - Izyaslav, son of Vladimir Yaroslavich and Princess Rogneda of Polotsk. According to legend, Rogneda decided to take revenge on her husband for what he did to her and her family. At night, she snuck into his bedroom and wanted to stab him, but he woke up and repelled the blow. The prince ordered his wife to put on an elegant dress and stood in front of her with a sword in his hands. Izyaslav stood up for his mother and Vladimir did not dare to kill his wife in front of his son.

The prince decided to send Rogneda and Izyaslav to live in the Polotsk lands. Hence the line of the Izyaslavichs of Polotsk appeared. There is evidence that some descendants of Izyaslav made attempts to seize power in Kyiv. So, Vseslav and Bryacheslav tried to press Yaroslav the Wise, but their expectations were not destined to come true.

Rostislavichi

They originate from Prince Rostislav. He was an outcast and had no right to claim the throne after the death of his father, but with the help of wars he managed to gain power in Tmutarakan. He left behind three sons:

• Vasilko
• Volodar
• Rurik

Rurik left no descendants, and the sons of Vasilko ruled Terebovlya and Galich. Volodar's son, Vladimirko, seeking to expand the estates of the Rostislavichs, annexed Galich to the lands. His cousin Ivan Galitsky helped him. He added Terebovl to his possessions. Thus, a large and influential Galician principality was formed. The branch of the Rostislavichs was interrupted when Vladimir Yaroslavich, the son of the famous prince Yaroslav Osmomysl, died. After this event, Roman the Great, one of the heirs and descendants of Yaroslav the Wise, began to rule in Galich.

Izyaslavichi Turovskie

Another descendant of the Wise, Izyaslav Yaroslavich, ruled in Turov. The prince died in 1078, his brother Vsevolod began to rule in Kyiv, and his younger son Yaropolk began to rule in Turov. However, a fierce struggle was waged for these lands, as a result of which the descendants of Izyaslav died one after another. In the end, they were forever expelled from their possessions by Vladimir Monomakh. Only in 1162, a distant descendant of Izyaslav, Yuri, was able to get back the lost possessions and strengthen them for himself. According to some sources, some Lithuanian-Russian princely dynasties originate from the Izyaslavichs of Turov.

Svyatoslavichi

This branch of the Rurik family tree originates from Svyatoslav, one of the participants in the triumvirate, formed after the death of Yaroslav the Wise. The sons of Svyatoslav, after the death of their father, fought with their uncles Izyaslav and Vsevolod, as a result of which they were defeated. However, one of the sons, Oleg Svyatoslavich, did not lose hope of regaining power and expelled Vladimir Monomakh. The lands that rightfully belonged to the Svyatoslavichs were divided among the surviving brothers.

Monomakhovichi

The line was formed from Vladimir Monomakh, the son of Prince Vsevolod. He also had a brother who died fighting the Polovtsy. Thus, all princely power was concentrated in the hands of Vladimir. The princes of Kiev gained control and influence in all Russian lands, including Turov and Polotsk. But the fragile unity did not last long. With the death of Monomakh, civil strife resumed and power in the destinies again became fragmented.

It is noteworthy that Prince Yuri Dolgoruky was a descendant of the Monomakhovich branch on the family tree of the Rurik dynasty. It is he who is indicated in the annals as the founder of Moscow, which later became the collector of Russian lands.

The Rurik family tree is full of tyrants, murderers, traitors and conspirators. One of the most cruel sovereigns of Russia is consideredJohn IV the Terrible. The atrocities that took place during his reign in the Russian lands are still remembered with a shudder. Murders, robberies, raids on the civilian population, which, with the permission of the tsar, were repaired by guardsmen - these are bloody and terrible pages in the history of our state. No wonder the sculpture of Ivan the Terrible is missing from the Millennium of Russia monument erected to the glory of the great sovereigns of our country.

There were also wise rulers among the Rurikovichs - the pride of the family and the defenders of their state. This isIvan Kalita- Collector of Russian lands, brave warriorAlexander Nevskiyand liberated Russia from the Tatar-Mongol dependence, Grand DukeDmitry Donskoy.

Compiling a family tree of the Rurik dynasty with dates and years of reign is a difficult task for historians, requiring deep knowledge and lengthy research. The point here is the remoteness of the era, and the numerous interweaving of surnames, genera and branches. Since the grand dukes had many descendants, it is now almost impossible to find a person on whom the royal dynasty was finally interrupted and ceased to exist. It is only known that the last tsars from this ancient family before the coming to power of the Romanovs were Fedor Ioannovich and Vasily Shuisky. It is difficult to answer the question whether there are now descendants of the first Russian prince or whether the family has sunk into oblivion forever. Researchers tried to find out with a DNA test, but there is still no reliable data on this matter.

Rurik - according to the chronicle legend, the head of the Varangian military detachment, called by the Ilmen Slavs to reign together with the brothers Sineus and Truvor in Novgorod. Founder of the Rurik dynasty.
Oleg (? -912) - a relative of Rurik, Prince of Novgorod (from 879) and Kyiv (from 882). In 907 he made a trip to Byzantium, in 907 and 911 he concluded agreements with her.
Igor (? -945) - the son of Rurik, the Grand Duke of Kyiv from 912. In 941 and 944 he made trips to Byzantium, with which he concluded an agreement. Killed by the Drevlyans who Revolted during the collection of tribute.
Children: Svyatoslav - see below
Olga (? -969) - wife of Prince Igor, Grand Duchess of Kyiv. Rules in the early childhood of the son of Svyatoslav and during his campaigns. Suppressed the uprising of the Drevlyans. Around 957 adopted Christianity.
Svyatoslav (? -972) - son of Prince Igor, Grand Duke of Kyiv. He made campaigns from 964 from Kyiv to the Oka, the Volga region, the North Caucasus and the Balkans; liberated the Vyatichi from the power of the Khazars, fought with the Volga Bulgaria, defeated (965) the Khazar Khaganate, in 967 fought with Bulgaria on the Danube. In alliance with the Hungarians, Bulgarians and others, he waged the Russian-Byzantine war of 970-971. Strengthened the foreign policy position of the Kievan state. Killed by the Pechenegs at the Dnieper rapids.

Children: Vladimir (see below)
Oleg (?-977), Prince of Drevlyansky
Yaropolk (? -980), Prince of Kyiv (since 972). He tried to subjugate the territories in the north and northeast of Russia, but was defeated by his younger brother Vladimir.

Vladimir (? -1015) - son of Prince Svyatoslav, Prince of Novgorod (since 969), Grand Duke of Kyiv (since 980). He conquered the Vyatichi, Radimichi and Yotvingians; fought with the Pechenegs, Volga Bulgaria, Byzantium and Poland. Under him, defensive lines were built along the rivers Desna, Osetr, Trubezh, Sula and others, Kyiv was re-fortified and built up with stone buildings. In 988-989 he introduced Christianity as the state religion. Under Vladimir, the ancient Russian state entered its heyday, and the international prestige of Russia increased. In Russian epics, the Red Sun is called. Canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church.

Children: Boris (? -1015), Prince of Rostov. Killed by supporters of Svyatopolk. Canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church.
Vsevolod, Prince of Vladimir-Volynsky
Vysheslav, Prince of Novgorod
Gleb (7-I 0 I 5), Prince of Murom. Killed by order of Svyatopolk. Canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church
Izyaslav (see below)
Mstislav (? -1036), prince of Tmutarakansky (since 988) and Chernigov (since 1026). Conquered a number of Caucasian tribes. The struggle with Prince Yaroslav the Wise ended with the division of the state along the Dnieper River, which remained until the death of Mstislav.
Pozvizd
Svyatoslav (? -1015), Prince of Drevlyansky. Killed by order of Svyatopolk
Svyatopolk the Accursed (c. 980-1019), Prince of Turov (from 988) and Kyiv (1015-1019). He killed three of his brothers and took possession of their destinies. Exiled by Yaroslav the Wise. In 1018, with the help of Polish and Pecheneg troops, he captured Kyiv, but was defeated.
Stanislav
Sudislav (?-1063)
Yaroslav the Wise (see below)

Izyaslav (? -1001) - son of Prince Vladimir, Prince of Polotsk

Children: Bryachislav (? -1044), Prince of Polotsk
Grandchildren: Vseslav (? -1101), Prince of Polotsk
Great-grandchildren: Gleb (? -1119), Prince of Minsk
Great-great-grandchildren: Vladimir, Prince of Minsk
Great-great-great-grandchildren: Vasily, Prince Logovsky
Great-great-grandchildren: Vsevolod, Prince Izyaslavl

Rostislav, Prince of Polotsk
Great-grandchildren: David, Prince of Polotsk

Rogvolod (Boris), Prince of Polotsk
Great-great-grandchildren: Vasily (Rogvolod), Prince of Polotsk
Great-great-great-grandchildren: Gleb, Prince Drutsky
Great-grandchildren: Roman (? -1116), Prince of Polotsk

Rostislav (George)

Svyatoslav, Prince of Polotsk
Great-great-grandchildren: Vasilko, Prince of Polotsk
Great-great-great-grandchildren: Bryachislav, Prince of Vitebsk

Vseslav, Prince of Polotsk

Yaroslav the Wise (c. 978-1054) - son of Prince Vladimir, Grand Duke of Kyiv (1019). He expelled Svyatopolk the Accursed, fought with his brother Mstislav, divided the state with him (1026), and in 1036 united it again. A number of victories secured the southern and western borders of Russia. Established dynastic ties with many European countries. Under him, Russkaya Pravda was compiled.
Children: Anastasia, Queen of Hungary
Anna (c. 1024 - not earlier than 1075), wife (1049-1060) of the French king Henry I. The ruler of France in the early childhood of her son - Philip I
Vladimir (?-1052), Prince of Novgorod
Grandchildren: Rostislav, Prince Tmutarakansky
Great-grandchildren: Vasilko (? -1124), Prince Terebovskiy

Volodar (? -1124), prince of Przemysl. He sought the independence of the Galician land from Kyiv. Using an alliance with the Polovtsians and Byzantium, together with his brother Vasilko, he successfully fought against the Hungarian and Polish feudal lords. He fought with the princes Svyatopolk Izyaslavich and David Igorevich. Established together with Vasilko in Terebovlya.
Great-great-grandchildren: Vladimir (? -1152)
Great-great-great-grandchildren: Yaroslav Osmomysl (? -I87), Prince of Galicia. Member of numerous feudal wars, campaigns against the Polovtsians and Hungarians. He strengthened the Principality of Galicia with many international connections. He fought against the separatism of the boyars.
Great-great-grandchildren: Rostislav
Great-great-great-grandchildren: Ivan Berladnik (? -1162)
Great-grandchildren: Rurik (? -1092), Prince Przemysl
Children: Vsevolod (1030-1093), Prince Pereyaslavsky (from 1054), Chernigov (from 1077), Grand Duke of Kyiv (from 1078). Together with the brothers Izyaslav and Svyatoslav, he fought against the Polovtsians.
Grandchildren: Vladimir Monomakh (see below)
Eupraxia (?-1109)
Rostislav (? -1093), Prince of Pereyaslavsky
Children: Vyacheslav (? -1057), Prince of Smolensk
Grandchildren: Boris (? -1078), Prince Tmutarakansky
Children: Elizabeth, Queen of Norway

Igor (? -1060), Prince of Vladimir
Grandchildren: David (? -1112), Prince of Vladimir-Volynsky
Children: Izyaslav (1024-1078), Grand Duke of Kyiv (1054-1068,1069-1073,1077-1078). He was expelled from Kyiv (by a popular uprising in 1068 and by his brothers in 1073), he returned power with the help of foreign troops.
Grandchildren: Eupraxia, Queen of Poland

Mstislav (?-1068)

Svyatopolk (1050-1113), Prince of Polotsk in 1069-1071, Novgorod in 1078-1088, Turov in 1088-1093, Grand Duke of Kyiv from 1093. Hypocritical and cruel, incited princely civil strife; By oppressing the people, he prepared the uprising that broke out after his death in Kyiv.
Great-grandchildren: Bryachislav (? -1127)
Izyaslav (?-1127)
Mstislav (?-1099)

Yaroslav (? - 1123), Prince of Vladimir
Great-great-grandchildren: Yuri (? -1162)
Grandchildren: Yaropolk (? -1086), Prince Turovsky
Great-grandchildren: Vyacheslav (? -1105)

Yaroslav (? -1102), Prince of Brest
Children: Ilya (? -1020)

Svyatoslav (1027-1076), Prince of Chernigov from 1054, Grand Duke of Kyiv from 1073. Together with his brother Vsevolod, he defended the southern borders of Russia from the Polovtsians and Turks
Grandchildren: Gleb (? -1078), Prince of Novgorod and Tmutarakansky
David (see below)
Oleg Gorislavich (see below)
Roman (?-1079), Prince of Tmutarakansky
Yaroslav (? -1129), Prince of Murom and Chernigov

Davil Svyatoslavich (? -1123), grandson of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, Prince of Chernigov
Children: Vladimir (? -1151), Prince of Chernigov
Grandchildren: Svyatoslav (? -1166), Prince Vshchizhsky
Children: Vsevolod (? -1124), Prince of Murom
Izyaslav (? -1161), Grand Duke of Kyiv
Rostislav (?-1120)
Svyatoslav (Svyatosha) (? -1142), Prince of Chernigov

Oleg Svyatoslavich (Gorislavich) (? -1115) - grandson of Yaroslav the Wise. He reigned in the Rostov-Suzdal land, in Volhynia; having lost his possessions, he fled to Tmutarakan, twice captured Chernigov with the support of the Polovtsy, was captured by the Khazars, then in Byzantium in exile on Fr. Rhodes. In "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" he was nicknamed Gorislavich.
Children: Vsevolod (? -1146), Prince of Chernigov (1127-1139), Grand Duke of Kyiv (since 1139). Member of civil strife; brutally oppressed the people, which caused an uprising in Kyiv after his death.
Grandchildren: Svyatoslav (? -1194), Grand Duke of Kyiv
Great-grandchildren: Vladimir (? -1201), Prince of Novgorod
Vsevolod Chermny (?-1212)
Great-great-grandchildren: Mikhail (1179-1246), Prince of Chernigov. In the 20s. several times he was a prince in Novgorod. From 1238 Grand Duke of Kyiv. During the offensive of the Mongol-Tatar troops, he fled to Hungary. Returned to Russia; killed in the Golden Horde.
Great-great-great-grandchildren: Rostislav (? -1249)
Great-grandchildren: Gleb (? -1214)

Great-great-grandchildren: Mstislav, Prince of Turov
Great-grandchildren: Mstislav (? -1223), Prince of Chernigov

Oleg (?-1204), Prince of Chernigov
Great-great-grandchildren: David
Grandchildren: Yaroslav (? -1198), Prince of Chernigov
Great-grandchildren: Rostislav (? -1214), Prince Snovsky

Yaropolk
Children: Vsevolod the Big Nest (1154-1212), Grand Duke of Vladimir. Successfully fought with the feudal nobility; subjugated Kyiv, Chernigov, Ryazan, Novgorod. During his reign, Vladimir-Suzdal Rus reached its peak. Had 12 children (hence the nickname).
Grandchildren: Ivan (? -1239), Prince Starodubsky
Konstantin (1186-1219), Grand Duke of Vladimir (since 1216). In 1206-1207 he reigned in Novgorod. With the support of Prince Mstislav Mstislavich Udaly and the Novgorod-Pskov-Smolensk-Rostov common army, he defeated his brothers Yaroslav and Yuri in the Battle of Lipitsa (1216). He took away the grand-ducal table from Yuri.
Great-grandchildren: Vasily (? -1238), Prince of Rostov
Vladimir (? - 1249), Prince of Uglitsky

Vsevolod (7-1238), Prince of Yaroslavl
Grandchildren: Svyatoslav (? -1252)
Yuri (George) (1188-1238), Grand Duke of Vladimir (1212-1216 and from 1218). He was defeated in the Battle of Lipitsa (1216) and ceded the great reign to his brother Konstantin. In 1221 Nizhny Novgorod was founded; defeated and died in battle with the Mongol-Tatars on the river Sit.
Great-grandchildren: Vladimir (? -1238)

Vsevolod (? -1238), Prince of Novgorod

Mstislav (?-1238)
Grandchildren: Yaroslav (1191-1246). He reigned in Pereyaslavl, Galich, Ryazan, was invited and expelled several times by the Novgorodians; participant in feudal wars, was defeated in the Battle of Lipitsa (1216). In 1236-1238 he reigned in Kyiv, from 1238 the Grand Duke of Vladimir. Twice traveled to the Golden Horde, as well as to Mongolia.
Great-grandchildren: Alexander Nevsky (see below)

Andrew (?-1264)
Children: Gleb (? -1171), Prince Pereyaslavsky

Ivan (? -1147), Prince of Kursk

Michael (? -1176), Prince of Vladimir

Mstislav, Prince of Novgorod
Grandchildren: Yaroslav (7-1199), Prince Volokolamsky
Children: Rostislav (7-1151), Prince Pereyaslavsky
Grandchildren: Mstislav (? - 1178), Prince of Novgorod
Great-grandchildren: Svyatoslav, Prince of Novgorod
Grandchildren: Yaropolk (? -1196)
Children: Svyatoslav (? -1174) Yaroslav (? -1166)