Who Ruled After Kyiv Fell? — Kyivan Rus in Six Chains, Part 2

The Rurikid lines after Kyiv: Galicia-Volhynia, Moscow and Polotsk, and why they ended so differently. 7 pages. Part 2 of 7 in Kyivan Rus in Six Chains.

Three ruling lines that descended from the Rurikids shaped the story after Kyiv. Galicia-Volhynia produced the only Rurikid ever crowned king, around 1253, but the line ended in the fourteenth century. The princes of Polotsk were absorbed into the Lithuanian ruling circle. The Moscow branch ruled without a break until 1598. The Lithuanian Grand Dukes, the Gediminids, were not Rurikids at all, though Rurikid families stayed in the Grand Duchy.

A family tree shows kinship, not exclusive inheritance. This guide shows what each line actually did and where sources disagree on dates.

WHAT YOU GET

• 7 pages, PDF, in English, with four illustrations
• The Rurikid question, the Galicia-Volhynia crown, Moscow's longest line, Polotsk, and Lithuania
• A status-labelled timeline, including the disputed dates for Danylo's coronation and for Daniel receiving Moscow
• A "three peoples, one chain" comparison
• Where historians disagree; what we checked and what we did not; sources

FILE FORMAT: PDF

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LICENSE

Personal use only. Please do not redistribute or resell.

ABOUT THE GUIDE

AI-assisted. Checked against reference sources. Not a scholarly monograph.

Part 0 is free: payhip.com/b/RkbVK

Part 1, "Who Was Really Called 'Rus'?": payhip.com/b/Y1nE7

Publisher: Ukraine Eternal