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The Prince of Vladimir, [1] from 1186 [2] Grand Prince of Vladimir (Russian: Великий князь Владимирский), [3] also translated as Grand Duke of Vladimir, was the title of the monarch of Vladimir-Suzdal.
Vladimir I Sviatoslavich or Volodymyr I Sviatoslavych [7] (Old East Slavic: Володимѣръ Свѧтославичь, romanized: Volodiměr Svętoslavič; [a] [b] [9] Christian name: Basil; [10] c. 958 – 15 July 1015), given the epithet "the Great", [11] was Prince of Novgorod from 970 and Grand Prince of Kiev from 978 until his death in 1015.
The territory of Vladimir proper was received by the Horde to one of the appanage princes, who performed the enthronement ceremony in Vladimir, but remained to live and reign in his own principality. By the end of the century, only three cities – Moscow, Tver, and Nizhny Novgorod – still contended for the title of grand prince of Vladimir. [30]
From 1331, the prince of Moscow was also the grand prince of Vladimir, except for one brief interruption from 1359 to 1363, when the throne was held by Nizhny Novgorod. [10] In 1389, the grand principality became a family possession of the prince of Moscow and the two thrones were united. [11]
The family of Vladimir I, popularly known as Vladimir the Great (c. 958–1015), prince of Kievan Rus', is subject to scholarly studies.The primary sources about his life, such as the Primary Chronicle and the Chronicon Thietmari of Thietmar of Merseburg, are legendary, and require critical scrutiny to separate fact (or history) from fiction (or mythology).
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Yuri II (Russian: Ю́рий–II, also transcribed as Iuri [1]), also known as George II of Vladimir or as Georgy II Vsevolodovich (26 November 1188 – 4 March 1238), was the fourth Grand Prince of Vladimir (1212–1216, 1218–1238) who presided over the Principality of Vladimir-Suzdal at the time of the Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus'.
Vladimir's family had fled to Finland after the Russian Revolution of 1917. His family left Finland in 1920, [2] moving to Coburg, Germany. On 8 August 1922 Vladimir's father declared himself Curator of the Russian throne. Two years later on 31 August 1924 his father went a step further and assumed the title Emperor and Autocrat of all the ...