Rurik Rostislavich

Rurik Rostislavich, also spelt Riurik, ({{circa, 1140 - 19 April 1212{{efn, Other sources state the date of Rurik's death as 1211,1214 or 1215) was Prince of Novgorod (1170–1171), Belgorod (1173–1194), Grand Prince of Kiev (1173;{{sfn, Martin, 2007, p=128 1180–1181; 1194–1201; 1203–1204; 1205-1206; 1207–1210),{{cn, date=January 2023 and Prince of Chernigov (from 1210 till his death).

Life

Rurik,also known under his baptismal name Basil, was the son of Rostislav I of Kiev.{{sfn, Lenhoff, 2015, p=18 In the 1160s he ruled the province of Drevlians before becoming the prince of Ovruch (1168). Succession conflicts intermittently placed Rurik on the throne of the Kievan Rus' no fewer than six times between 1173 and 1210.{{sfn, Ostrowski, 2018, p=36 Between 1173 and 1181 Rurik spent brief periods as a ruler of Novgorod the Great and Kyiv.

According to the '' Kievan Chronicle'' account,{{sfn, Martin, 2006, pp=277–278 in 1182,{{cn, date=January 2023 Rurik became co-ruler with Sviatoslav Vsevolodovich of Kiev (who had become prince of Kiev in 1177{{sfn, Martin, 2006, p=277), a " duumvirate" arrangement that lasted until Sviatoslav's death in 1194.{{sfn, Martin, 2007, p=130 According to the '' Novgorod Fourth Chronicle'' and ''Sofia First Chronicle'' tradition ''sub anno'' 6688 (1180) and 6693 (1185), Sviatoslav reigned alone, and there is no mention of Rurik as co-prince.{{sfn, Martin, 2006, p=278 After the death of Sviatoslav in 1194 he became Prince of Kyiv in his own right. A conflict with the Olgovichi house, as well as with Galician prince Roman Mstislavich led to his deposition.

The loss of power over Kyiv led Ruril to seek alliance with Cumans. After a brief stint in Chernigov, where he built the Church of St. Paraskebas,{{cn, date=January 2023 Rurik, along with his kinsmen and a Cuman army, attacked and sacked Kiev in 1203,{{sfn, Magocsi, 2010, p=124 but was repelled until Roman's death in 1205.{{cn, date=January 2023 Rurik had been confined to a monastery in 1204, but he abandoned his holy vows and returned to the throne.{{cn, date=January 2023

His cousin, Vsevolod Chermny, felt that Rurik's previous monastic vows rendered his authority invalid, and so attacked and briefly seized Kiev in 1206, 1207, and 1211.{{cn, date=January 2023 In 1210 Rurik was forced to abdicate the Kyivan throne to Vsevolod. For the remainder of his life he governed in Chernigov.{{Cite web, title=Riuryk (Vasylii) Rostyslavych, date=1993, url=https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CR%5CI%5CRiurykVasyliiRostyslavych.htm, website=Encyclopedia of Ukraine, access-date=2025-06-09

Rurik was married to Anna of Turov; among their children was Rostislav II of Kiev.{{cn, date=January 2023

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Sources

*{{cite journal , title=Rus'-Tatar Princely Marriages in the Horde: The Literary Sources , first=Gail , last=Lenhoff , journal=Russian History , volume=42, issue = 1, Festschrift for Janet Martin , publisher=Brill , year=2015 , doi=10.1163/18763316-04201004 , s2cid=211599594
* {{cite journal , last=Martin , first=Janet , title=Calculating Seniority and the Contests for Succession in Kievan Rus' , journal=Russian History , publisher=Brill , volume=33 , issue=2/4 , year=2006 , issn=18763316 , jstor=24664444 , pages=267–281 , url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/24664444
* {{cite book , title=Medieval Russia: 980–1584. Second Edition. E-book , last=Martin , first=Janet , authorlink=Janet L. B. Martin , url=https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/book/802816/medieval-russia-980-1584/janet-martin/ , year=2007 , publisher=Cambridge University Press , location=Cambridge , isbn=978-0-511-36800-4
* {{Cite book , last1=Magocsi , first1=Paul Robert , authorlink1=Paul Robert Magocsi , date=2010 , title=A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TA1zVKTTsXUC , location=Toronto , publisher=University of Toronto Press , pages=894 , isbn=9781442610217 , access-date=22 January 2023
* {{Cite journal , last1=Ostrowski , first1=Donald , date=2018 , title=Was There a Riurikid Dynasty in Early Rus'? , url=https://brill.com/view/journals/css/52/1/article-p30_2.xml , journal=Canadian-American Slavic Studies , volume=52 , issue=1 , pages=30–49 , doi=10.1163/22102396-05201009, url-access=subscription

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{{s-aft, after= Sviatoslav III
{{s-bef, before= Yaroslav II
{{s-ttl, title=Grand Prince of Kiev, years=1180–1182
{{s-aft, after=Sviatoslav III
{{s-bef, before=Sviatoslav III
{{s-ttl, title=Grand Prince of Kiev, years=1194–1202
{{s-aft, after= Igor III
{{s-bef, before=Igor III
{{s-ttl, title=Grand Prince of Kiev, years=1203–1205
{{s-aft, after= Rostislav II
{{s-bef, before=Rostislav II
{{s-ttl, title=Grand Prince of Kiev, years=1206
{{s-aft, after= Vsevolod IV the Red
{{s-bef, before=Vsevolod IV the Red
{{s-ttl, title=Grand Prince of Kiev, years=1207-1210
{{s-aft, after=Vsevolod IV the Red
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1215 deaths
Grand princes of Kiev
Year of birth unknown
Rostislavichi family (Smolensk)
Escapees from monasteries

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