Smolensk
The Principality of Smolensk was a Rurikid realm on the upper Dnieper, commanding routes between Novgorod and Kiev. In 1337 Prince Johan ruled from Smolensk.
Smolensk’s army fought beside Moscow at Kulikovo in 1380, but Prince Sviatoslav fell to the Lithuanians at the Vikhra River in 1386. Vytautas annexed the principality in 1404. The city passed to Moscow’s Vasili III in 1514 and to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1611; the 1667 Treaty of Andrusovo ceded it to Russia.
Characters
- Dmitry Romanovich, Prince of Bryansk
- Vasily Alexandrovich of Bryansk
- Alexander Glebovich of Smolensk
- Davyd Rostislavich of Smolensk
- Davyd Igorevich
- Gleb Rostislavich of Smolensk
- Igor Yaroslavich
- Ivan Aleksandrovich of Smolensk
- Konstantin Davidovich
- Mstislav Davidovich of Smolensk
- Rostislav III Mstislavich of Kiev
- Stanislav Vladimirovich, Prince of Smolensk
- Vyacheslav Yaroslavich
- Fyodor Rostislavich the Black