Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "List of Russian monarchs" in English language version.
Previous works equated the history of Russia with the history of Orthodoxy in Russia, but the new histories equated it with the fortunes of Russia's two dynasties... the Riurikids (862–1598) and the Romanovs (from 1613)...
...also termed by historians and archaeologists as Kievan Rus' or Ancient Rus'...
In 1169, Andrei's son captured Kiev, but Andrei did not move his capital there, preferring Vladimir.
Furthermore, the accession of Alexander to the principality of Kiev... discontinued the political links between northern and southern Russia, since the prince never went to Kiev; its land were absorbed by the expansionist state of Lithuania... Although Alexander had failed to change the method of lateral succession, his son Daniel became the first permanent ruler of Moscow, founding a junior princely line that would produce the first czar...
Galicia-Volhynia ceased to exist; Lithuania took Volhynia, and Poland annexed Galicia... The Republic of Novgorod continued to prosper, however, and a new entity, the city of Moscow, began to flourish under the Mongols. Although a Russian army defeated the Golden Horde at Kulikovo in 1380, Mongol domination of the Russian-inhabited territories... continued until about 1480... On the northeastern periphery of Kievan Rus', those traditions were adapted to form the Russian autocratic state.
Galicia-Volhynia ceased to exist; Lithuania took Volhynia, and Poland annexed Galicia... The Republic of Novgorod continued to prosper, however, and a new entity, the city of Moscow, began to flourish under the Mongols. Although a Russian army defeated the Golden Horde at Kulikovo in 1380, Mongol domination of the Russian-inhabited territories... continued until about 1480... On the northeastern periphery of Kievan Rus', those traditions were adapted to form the Russian autocratic state.