Yury of Tarusa

Yury Mikhailovich, known in genealogies as Yury of Tarusa, is the semi-legendary progenitor of the Tarusa branch of the princes of Chernigov. Pedigrees name him a son of Mikhail Vsevolodovich, the grand prince of Kiev executed by the Mongols in 1246, and prince of Tarusa on the Oka.

Princely houses including the Obolensky, Volkonsky and Dolgorukov descended from his sons. Modern scholarship, judging from his descendants' dates, places him in the first half of the fourteenth century.