Simeon (Simon) Olelkovich ( be, Сямён Алелькавіч, uk, Семен Олелькович, russian: Семён Олелькович, lt, Simonas Olelkaitis; 1420–1470) was the last Prince of Kiev from 1454 to 1470 and the Prince of Slutsk from 1443 to 1455. A member of the

Olelkovich The House of Olelkovich ( be, Алелькавічы, lt, Olelkaičiai, pl, Olelkowicze, uk, Олельковичі) was a 15th–16th-century princely family from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Their main possession was the Duchy of Slutsk–K ...

family, he descended from Ruthenianized

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branch of the

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dynasty and was a great-grandson of Algirdas, the

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. After his father's death he inherited the Principality of Kiev. He conducted an independent policy, fought with the

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, maintained close ties with the

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, the

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and the

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in the

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. However soon after, the

was conquered by the emerging

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. He married Maria (d. 1501), daughter of Jan Gasztołd, by whom he had three children, Vasily (d. 1595), Alexandra, wife o
Fedor Ivanovich Borovsky
and Sophia (d. 1483), wife of Mikhail III of Tver, the last

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. After the death of Simon Olelkovich, the

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was transformed into the

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. His son received the

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as compensation, but he died young and was succeeded first by his mother, Maria, and then by his brother-in-law, Fedor, after her death. None of his children had any issue.Tver (appanages and grand-princes) // Russian biographical dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.

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F. Shabuldo. Simon Olelkovich // Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine, 2012. p 522.

* ttp://litopys.org.ua/ivakin/ivak03.htm Г. Івакін. Історичний розвиток Києва XIII — середина XVI ст. — К., 1996. — С. 42-108. * Długosz Jan. Dziejów polskich… — Tom V. — 1870 — S. 515 * Semkowicz W. Gasztołd Jan (Iwaszko) // Polski Słownik Biograficzny. — Kraków, 1948—1958. — t. VII. — S. 298. Gediminids Burials at Kyiv Pechersk Lavra People from Slutsk 1420 births 1470 deaths {{Royal-stub

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