List of Russian rulers

At different times, a ruler in Kievan Rus'/Muscovy/Imperial Russia bore the title of Kniaz (translated as Duke or Prince), Velikiy Kniaz (translated as Grand Duke, Grand Prince or Great Prince), Tsar, Emperor.

The Patriarchs, heads of the Russian Orthodox Church, also sometimes acted as the leaders of Russia — as, for example, during the Polish occupation and interregnum of 1610—1613 (see List of Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Moscow).

[edit] Grand Princes of Novgorod and Kiev

Rurik (c. 860–879)
Oleg (882–912)
Igor (912–945)
Olga (Regent, 945–962)
Sviatoslav I (962–972)
Yaropolk I (972–980)
Vladimir I (980–1015)
Sviatopolk I (1015–1019)
Yaroslav I (1019–1054)
Iziaslav I (1054–1073, 1076–1078)
Vseslav (1068–1069)
Sviatoslav II (1073–1076)
Vsevolod I (1078–1093)
Sviatopolk II (1093–1113)
Vladimir II Monomakh (1113–1125)
Mstislav I (1125–1132)
Yaropolk II (1132–1139)
Viacheslav I (1139, 1151–1154)
Vsevolod II (1139–1146)
Igor II (1146)
Iziaslav II (1146–1154, with intervals)
George I (1149–1151, 1155–1157)
Rostislav I (1154–1167, with intervals)
Iziaslav III (1155–1162, with intervals)
Mstislav II (1167–1169)
Gleb I (1169, 1170–1171)
Vladimir (1171)
Michael I (1171)
Roman I (1171–1173, 1175–1177)
Vsevolod III (1173)
Rurik (1172–1211, with intervals)
Yaroslav II, (1174–1175, 1180)
Sviatoslav III (1173, 1176–1180, 1181–1194)
Ingvar I (1202, 1214)*
Roman II (1203-1205)
Rostislav II (1204–1206)
Vsevolod IV (1206–1212, with intervals)
Mstislav III (1214–1223)
Vladimir III (1223–1235)
Iziaslav IV (1235–1236)
Yaroslav III (1236–1238, 1246)
Michael II (1238–1239, 1241–1246)
Rostislav III (1239)
Daniel I (1239–1240)

Andrew I (1168 - 1174), 1st Grand Prince of Vladimir
Michael I (1174 - 1176), 2nd Grand Prince of Vladimir
Vsevolod III (1176 - 1212), 3rd Grand Prince of Vladimir
Yuri II (1212 - 1216), 4th Grand Prince of Vladimir
Constantine I (1216 - 1218), 5th Grand Prince of Vladimir
Yuri II (1218 - 1238), restored
Yaroslav II (1238 - 1246), 6th Grand Prince of Vladimir
Sviatoslav III (1246 - 1249), 7th Grand Prince of Vladimir
Andrew II (1249 - 1252), 8th Grand Prince of Vladimir
Alexander Nevsky (1252 - 1263), 9th Grand Prince of Vladimir
Yaroslav III (1264 - 1271), 10th Grand Prince of Vladimir
Vasily of Kostroma (1272 - 1277), 11th Grand Prince of Vladimir
Dmitri of Pereslavl (1277 - 1294), 12th Grand Prince of Vladimir
Andrew of Gorodets (1294 - 1304), 13th Grand Prince of Vladimir
Michael of Tver (1304 - 1318), 14th Grand Prince of Vladimir
Yuri of Moscow (1318 - 1322), 15th Grand Prince of Vladimir
Dmitry of Tver (1322 - 1326), 16th Grand Prince of Vladimir
Alexander of Tver (1326 - 1327), 17th Grand Prince of Vladimir
Ivan I of Moscow (Ivan the Moneybag) (1328 - 1341), 18th Grand Prince of Vladimir
Simeon of Moscow (Simeon the Proud) (1341 - 1353), 19th Grand Prince of Vladimir
Ivan II of Moscow (Ivan the Fair) (1353 - 1359), 20th Grand Prince of Vladimir
Dmitri of Suzdal (1359 - 1362), 21st Grand Prince of Vladimir

Main article: Grand Prince of Moscow.

Dmitri Donskoi (1359 - 1389)
Vasili I (1389 - 1425)
Vasili II (Vasili the Blind) (1425 - 1462)
- Usurper: Yury of Zvenigorod (1433 - 1434)
- Usurper: Vasily Kosoy (1434)
- Usurper: Dmitry Shemyaka (1446 - 1448)
Ivan III (Ivan the Great) (1462 - 1505) - first Sovereign for all Russia
Vasili III (1505 - 1533)
- Grand Duchess Elena Glinskaya (regent for her son, Ivan IV, 1533 - 1538)
- Regents: Boyars Shuiskys and Boyars Belskys (1538 - 1547)
Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) (1533 - 1584) - first Tsar
- Simeon Bekbulatovich (1574 - 1576), a puppet ruler formally crowned "Grand Prince of the whole Russia" by Ivan the Terrible

Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) (1547 - 1584)
Feodor I (1584 - 1598) - last of the reigning Rurikids
Boris Godunov (1598 - 1605)
Feodor II (1605)
False Dmitri I (1605 - 1606)
Vasili IV (1606 - 1610) - also a Rurikid, though
Succession broken due to Time of Troubles
- Seven Boyars (1610 - 1610)
- Władysław IV Vasa (1610 - 1612) In 1610 he was elected^{[citation needed]} a Tsar of Russia however was never able to take the Muscovite throne and used the title of Grand Duke of Moscow

Michael I (1613 - 1645) - first of the Romanovs: elected Tsar on February 21, 1613, following the Time of Troubles
- Patriarch Filaret (Feodor Romanov) (1613 - 1633) (de-facto co-ruler of Russia during the early reign of his son, Mikhail Feodorovich)
Aleksey I (1645 - 1676)
Feodor III (1676 - 1682)
- Sophia Alekseyevna (1682-1689) (was a regent of Russia in the time of joint ruler Peter I with Ivan V)
Ivan V (1682 - 1696) (joint ruler with Peter I)
Peter I (Peter the Great) (1682 - 1721) (joint ruler with Ivan V until 1696)