Editing Grand Prince of Kiev (section)

== Princes of Kiev ==
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!Name
!Lifespan
!Ruled From
!Ruled Until
!Notes
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| [[Oleg of Novgorod|Oleg]]{{sfn|Ostrowski|2018|p=42–44}}
| ?–912/922/940s{{sfn|Ostrowski|2018|p=42–44}}
| 881/2 or 889{{sfn|Ostrowski|2018|p=44}} 
| 912/922/940s{{sfn|Ostrowski|2018|p=42–44}}
| First ''knyaz'' ("prince") of Kiev.{{sfn|Dimnik|2004|p=259}}{{sfn|Ostrowski|2018|p=32}} Relation to Rurik and Igor is disputed.{{sfn|Ostrowski|2018|p=42–44}} Date of accession is unclear in the ''[[Primary Chronicle]]''.{{sfn|Ostrowski|2018|p=44}}<br />Date of death is disputed:
* 912 (according to ''[[Primary Chronicle]]''){{sfn|Ostrowski|2018|p=42–43}}
* 922 (according to ''[[Novgorod First Chronicle]]''){{sfn|Ostrowski|2018|p=42–43}}
* 940s (according to ''[[Schechter Letter|Genizah Letter]]''){{sfn|Ostrowski|2018|p=42–43}}
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| [[Igor of Kiev]] 
| ?–945
| 912
| 945
| son of [[Rurik]] according to ''Primary Chronicle'', but many scholars doubt or reject this claim.{{efn|Including Hrushevsky (1904), Vernadsky (1943), Riasanovsky (1947), Paszkiewicz (1954), Franklin and Shepard (1996).{{sfn|Ostrowski|2018|p=30–31, 39}}}}
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| [[Olga of Kiev]]
| ?–969
| 945
| 962
| ([[regent]]-consort)
|-
| [[Sviatoslav I of Kiev|Sviatoslav I]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Leszek Moczulski|title=Narodziny Międzymorza|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FY_u2_TUiFoC&pg=PA475|year=2007|publisher=Bellona|page=475}}</ref>
| 942–972 
| 962
| 972
| son of Igor
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| [[Yaropolk I of Kiev|Yaropolk I]] (Jaropolk)<ref>''Ярополк'' is modern Ukrainian, ''Jaropełk'' is Polish, ''Jaropluk'' is Czech, ''Jaropelkas'' is Lithuanian, ''Iaropelkos'' is Greek, ''Jaropolk'' is German and Swedish.</ref>
| 958 (960?)–980
| 972 
| 980
| One of Svyatoslav's two sons
|-
|[[Vladimir the Great|Volodimir I "the Great"]]
| 958–1015
| 980
| 1015
| One Svyatoslav's two sons; in 988 baptized the Rus'. The earliest sources call him just ''knyaz'' ("prince") or ''kagan'', and nickname him ''Volodimir velikiy'' ("Volodimir the Great"); later sources also call him ''velikiy knyaz'' ("grand prince").{{sfn|Dimnik|2004|p=261–264}}
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|[[Sviatopolk I of Kiev|Sviatopolk I "the Accursed"]]{{efn|The Old Slavonic is Свѧтопълкъ in the Cyrillic alphabet, the modern Ukrainian is Святополк, Polish is ''Świętopełk'', Czech is ''Svatopluk'', and Slovak is ''Svätopluk''. Reconstructed, his name is '''''Sventopluk'''''. More commonly, his name is given in its Latin and Frankish equivalents: ''Suentopolcus'', ''Suatopluk'', ''Zventopluk'', ''Zwentibald'', ''Zwentibold'', ''Zuentibold'', or ''Zuentibald.''}}
| 980–1019
| 1015
| 1019
| origin is debatable. Is never called ''velikiy knyaz'' ("grand prince") in any source.{{sfn|Dimnik|2004|p=264}}
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