# Vladimir Olgerdovich

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Prince of Kiev from 1362 to 1394

Vladimir Olgerdovich. 1362-1394. Kiev mint. Military standard, swallowtail banner decorated with cross and pellets set on curved arm surmounted by cross, Cyrillic legend

Coin of the [Principality of Kiev](/source/Principality_of_Kiev), around the time of Vladimir Olgerdovich (1362-1394), imitating a [Gulistan mint](/source/Gulistan_mint) *dang* of [Golden Horde](/source/Golden_Horde) ruler [Jani Beg](/source/Jani_Beg) (Jambek). Uncertain Kiev region mint. Pseudo-Arabic legend.[1][2][3]

**Vladimir Olgerdovich**[a] (died after 1398) was the son of [Algirdas](/source/Algirdas), [Grand Duke of Lithuania](/source/Grand_Duke_of_Lithuania) and his first wife, [Maria of Vitebsk](/source/Maria_of_Vitebsk).[4] He was the [Prince of Kiev](/source/Prince_of_Kiev) from 1362 to 1394.[4] His sons Ivan and [Alexander](/source/Aleksandras_Olelka) started the [Belsky](/source/Belsky_family_(Gediminid)) and [Olelkovich](/source/Olelkovich) families.[4]

## Prince of Kiev

After the [Battle of Blue Waters](/source/Battle_of_Blue_Waters) in 1362, the [Principality of Kiev](/source/Principality_of_Kiev) was attached to the [Grand Duchy of Lithuania](/source/Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania).[5] It is believed that Vladimir was installed in Kiev right after the battle and replaced [Fiodor of Kiev](/source/Fiodor_of_Kiev).[6] Vladimir conducted independent politics and minted his own coins.[7] Initially the coins were heavily influenced by the numismatic traditions of the [Golden Horde](/source/Golden_Horde) and copied symbolism from coins minted by Khans [Jani Beg](/source/Jani_Beg) and [Muhammad Bolak](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Muhammad_Bolak&action=edit&redlink=1).[8] However, later the coins replaced the Tatar symbols (i.e. [tamga](/source/Tamga)) with letter *K* (for Kiev) and a cross (for [Eastern Orthodox](/source/Eastern_Orthodox) faith).[9] This could indicate that for a while the Principality still had to pay tribute to the Horde.[9] These were the first coins minted in the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.[8]

In late 1384, Vladimir's troops detained [Dionysius](/source/Dionysius%2C_Metropolitan_of_Kiev), the a [metropolitan bishop](/source/Metropolitan_bishop), who died in captivity a year later.[10] This was part of the power struggle between Dionysius, [Pimen](/source/Pimen%2C_Metropolitan_of_Kiev), and [Cyprian](/source/Cyprian%2C_Metropolitan_of_Kiev) for the title of [Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus'](/source/List_of_metropolitans_and_patriarchs_of_Kyiv) (which at that time had residence in [Moscow](/source/Moscow)).

## Removal from Kiev

When [Jogaila](/source/Jogaila) became [King of Poland](/source/King_of_Poland) in 1386, Vladimir swore loyalty to him. After the 1392 [Ostrów Agreement](/source/Ostr%C3%B3w_Agreement), [Vytautas](/source/Vytautas) became the Grand Duke of Lithuania and began to eliminate regional dukes replacing them with appointed regents.[7] This campaign could have been launched to discipline disloyal dukes, but turned into a systematic effort to centralize the state. In 1393, Vytautas confiscated [Volodymyr-Volynskyi](/source/Volodymyr-Volynskyi) from Feodor, son of [Liubartas](/source/Liubartas), [Novhorod-Siverskyi](/source/Novhorod-Siverskyi) from [Kaributas](/source/Kaributas), [Vitebsk](/source/Vitebsk) from [Švitrigaila](/source/%C5%A0vitrigaila).[7] In 1394, Vytautas and [Skirgaila](/source/Skirgaila) marched against Vladimir, who surrendered without a battle. Skirgaila was installed in Kiev while Vladimir received the [Principality of Slutsk](/source/Principality_of_Slutsk).

Vladimir, last mentioned in written sources in October 1398, was the 4th great-grandfather of [Elizabeth Báthory](/source/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory).

## Death

Vladimir Olgerdovich died after 1398 and was buried at the [Kiev Pechersk Lavra](/source/Kiev_Pechersk_Lavra).[4][11]

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Belarusian](/source/Belarusian_language): Уладзімір Альгердавіч; [Lithuanian](/source/Lithuanian_language): *Vladimiras Algirdaitis*; [Polish](/source/Polish_language): *Włodzimierz Olgierdowic*; [Ukrainian](/source/Ukrainian_language): Володимир Ольгердович; [Russian](/source/Russian_language): Владимир Ольгердович

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** For reference: Gulistan coinage of [Jani Beg](/source/Jani_Beg):

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Khromov, Kostiantyn; Khromova, Iryna (2019). ["COINAGE GENESIS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE POLITICAL AUTONOMY ON THE LITHUANIAN-HORDE BORDER LANDS the second half of the 14th – the first half of the 15th century"](http://62.244.28.214/images/5/UL_5.pdf) (PDF). *Ukraina Lithuanica: студії з історії Великого князівства Литовського*: 13–14.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Suchodolski, Stanisław; Bogucki, Mateusz (2007). [*Money Circulation in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modern Times: Time, Range, Intensity : International Symposium of the 50th Anniversary of Wiadomości Numizmatyczne : Warsaw, 13-14 October 2006*](https://books.google.com/books?id=twgXAQAAIAAJ). Avalon. p. 199. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-83-89499-43-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-83-89499-43-1). The first coins, anonymous (Type I), roughly imitate Tatar coins of Jani beg struck in Gulistán in the years 1351-1353 (Kozubovs'kyi 1994). Kozubovs'kyi regarded them as the oldest coins of Volodymyr from the sixties to the early eighties but Khromov, while facing some recent finds (or a find) from the Sumy province, is of the opinion that they were struck earlier, between 1354-63 under the rule of the Ruirikid Prince [Theodore of Kyiv](/source/Fiodor_of_Kiev), and that they were struck somewhere to the east of the capital town, in the Sumy region (Khromov 2004, 2006).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Vle_5-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Vle_5-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Vle_5-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-Vle_5-3) ["Vladimiras Algirdaitis"](https://www.vle.lt/straipsnis/vladimiras-algirdaitis/). *[Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija](/source/Visuotin%C4%97_lietuvi%C5%B3_enciklopedija)* (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 25 January 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Rowell, S. C. (6 March 2014). [*Lithuania Ascending*](https://books.google.com/books?id=X1cHAwAAQBAJ). Cambridge University Press. p. 108. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-107-65876-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-107-65876-9).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-rowell_7-0)** Rowell, S. C. (1994). *Lithuania Ascending: A Pagan Empire Within East-Central Europe, 1295-1345*. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series. Cambridge University Press. p. 100. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-521-45011-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-45011-9).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-petra_8-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-petra_8-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-petra_8-2) Petrauskas, Rimvydas; [Jūratė Kiaupienė](/source/J%C5%ABrat%C4%97_Kiaupien%C4%97) (2009). *[Lietuvos istorija](/source/History_of_Lithuania_(book)). Nauji horizontai: dinastija, visoumenė, valstybė* (in Lithuanian). Vol. IV. [Baltos lankos](/source/Baltos_lankos). pp. 373–374. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-9955-23-239-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-9955-23-239-1).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-saja_9-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-saja_9-1) Sajauskas, Stanislovas (2004). "Pirmųjų Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės monetų ypatybės". *Pinigų studijos* (in Lithuanian): 83–84. [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [1392-2637](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1392-2637).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-karys_10-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-karys_10-1) Karys, Jonas K. (September 1964). ["Išskiriamieji ženklai Lietuviškoje numizmatikoje"](http://aidai.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3831&Itemid=291). *[Aidai](/source/Aidai)* (in Lithuanian) (7). [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0002-208X](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0002-208X). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20111003200453/http://aidai.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3831&Itemid=291) from the original on 2011-10-03. Retrieved 2011-06-28.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-shubin_11-0)** Shubin, Daniel H. (2004). [*A history of Russian Christianity*](https://books.google.com/books?id=Fwib6rLU_iMC&pg=PA111). Vol. 1. Algora Publishing. p. 111. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-87586-289-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-87586-289-6).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Vkpk_12-0)** ["Kijevo Pečorų lauros vienuolyno kompleksas"](https://vkpk.lt/u-zemelapis/kijevo-pecoru-lauros-vienuolyno-kompleksas/). *Valstybinė kultūros paveldo komisija* (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 25 January 2025.

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