1. Prince Glorious. The legendary prince of the Ilmen Slovenes, who sat down near Lake Ilmen and created a settlement that soon became Novgorod.
2. Prince Rus - an exclusively mythical prince and ancestor, the epic name of the people of Russia. Attempts to link this character with a real historical figure and events are usually not justified.
3. VyMtko - according to The Tale of Bygone Years, the legendary ancestor (prince), the ancestor of the East Slavic tribe (tribal union) of the Vyatichi. Together with his brother RadiMm he came out of the Poles; settled "with his kin on the Oka."
4. RadiMm - according to the "Tale of Bygone Years", the legendary ancestor (prince), the forefather of the East Slavic tribe (tribal union) of the Radimichi who lived in the south-east of Belarus. Together with his brother Vyamtko came out of the Poles; settled "along the Sozh".
5. Laborets (c. 875-892) - the legendary prince of the early feudal state of the Slavic tribal union of White Croats who lived between the Tisza and the Danube. The main fortification of this state was the castle on the site of the Uzhgorod castle (castrum Hung). According to medieval sources, it was Prince Laborets who ruled in it.
6. Bravlin is a legendary Russian prince who raided the Byzantine city of Surozh (Sugdeya) in Tavria (present-day Crimea) at the turn of the VIII-IX centuries. It is known only from the description of the campaign of the squad to the Crimea and the Christian miracle in the Russian edition of the "Life of Stephen of Sourozh" of the 15th century.
7. Kiy - the legendary prince of the Dnieper glades, the founder of Kiev.
According to The Tale of Bygone Years, Kiy, who lived on the Dnieper “mountains” with his younger brothers Shchek, Khoryv and his sister Lybid, built a city on the high right bank of the Dnieper, named after his elder brother Kiev. Kiy is also named the founder of the town of Kievets on the Danube. From Kiy and his brothers the chroniclers took the Polyan tribe. The chronicler also cites a second legend (although he rejects it as implausible) that Kiy was a carrier on the Dnieper.
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According to the most authoritative point of view, the legends about the founding of the city are etymological myths designed to explain the names of the Kiev localities.
8. Schek (Ukrainian Schek) - according to legends reflected in the ancient Russian chronicles of the 11th-12th centuries, the prince in the tribal union of the Polyans, the founder (together with Kiy and Khoriv) of three settlements that later made up the city of Kiev. The name of Shchek is presumably associated with the name of one of the Kiev mountains - Schekavitsa.
9. KhoriMv (Old Russian. Khoriv) - according to the Tale of Bygone Years, the name of one of the legendary brothers who founded Kiev. According to Max Fasmer and A. I. Sobolevsky, the old Russian proper name Khoriv is derived from the name of the area Khorivitsa (Khorevitsa, Khoriva) - the mountains near Kiev. The name "Horivitsa" is identical to the ancient Persian Haraiva (the name of a mountainous area) and, apparently, comes from some Iranian language.
10. Prince Gertnit. The legendary prince of Gardariki, described in The Saga of Tidrek of Berne. Known for the fact that he went to a big war against the Svei (future Swedes) and imposed a tribute on them.
11. Gostomysl (d. C. 860) - the legendary elder of the Ilmen Slovenes, whose name is associated with the legend of the calling of Rurik in some later lists of chronicles. Gostomysl is also the hero of the literary work of the 17th century "The Legend of Slovenia and Ruse and the City of Slovensk".
12. WadiMm Chrambry (WadiMm NovgoroMdsky, Vadim Khorobry, killed in 864) - the legendary leader of the Novgorodians who rebelled in 864 against Prince Rurik. In the earliest Old Russian chronicle, The Tale of Bygone Years, Vadim's name is not mentioned. In some late chronicle collections of the 16th century, a legend appeared about the turmoil in Novgorod, which arose soon after the call of the Varangians in 862. Among the Novgorodians there were many dissatisfied with the autocracy of Rurik and the actions of his relatives. Under the leadership of Vadim the Brave, an uprising broke out in defense of the lost liberty. Vadim was killed by Rurik, along with many of his followers. In V. N. Tatishchev's presentation, Vadim was a local Slovenian prince.