COMPANIONS from Ukraine

Top 6

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Ukrainian Companions of all time. This list of famous Ukrainian Companions is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Anne of Kiev (1025 - 1075)

With an HPI of 67.14, Anne of Kiev is the most famous Ukrainian Companion.  Her biography has been translated into 38 different languages on wikipedia.

Anne of Kiev or Anna Yaroslavna (c. 1030 – 1075) was a princess of Kievan Rus who became Queen of France in 1051 upon marrying King Henry I. She ruled the kingdom as regent during the minority of their son Philip I from Henry's death in 1060 until her controversial marriage to Count Ralph IV of Valois. Anne founded the Abbey of St. Vincent at Senlis.

2. Catherine Dolgorukov (1847 - 1922)

With an HPI of 60.80, Catherine Dolgorukov is the 2nd most famous Ukrainian Companion.  Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages.

Princess Catherine Dolgorukova (Russian: Екатери́на Миха́йловна Долгору́кова, romanized: Yekaterína Mikháyilovna Dolgorúkova; 14 November [O.S. 2 November] 1847 – 15 February 1922) was a Russian aristocrat and the daughter of Prince Michael Dolgorukov and Vera Vishnevskaya. Catherine was a long-time mistress of Tsar Alexander II and later, as his morganatic wife, was given the title of Princess Yurievskaya (Russian: Светлейшая княгиня Юрьевская). Alexander and Catherine already had three children when they formed a morganatic marriage on 18 July [O.S. 6 July] 1880, after the death of the Emperor's wife, Marie of Hesse and by Rhine, on 3 June [O.S. 22 May] 1880. A fourth child had died in infancy. Catherine became a widow with the assassination of Alexander II on 13 March [O.S. 1 March] 1881 by members of Narodnaya Volya.

3. Kunigunda of Halych (1245 - 1285)

With an HPI of 60.11, Kunigunda of Halych is the 3rd most famous Ukrainian Companion.  Her biography has been translated into 23 different languages.

Kunigunda Rostislavna (1245 – 9 September 1285; Czech: Kunhuta Uherská or Kunhuta Haličská) was Queen consort of Bohemia and its regent from 1278 until her death. She was a member of the House of Chernigov, and a daughter of Rostislav Mikhailovich.

4. Natalia Sedova (1882 - 1962)

With an HPI of 57.66, Natalia Sedova is the 4th most famous Ukrainian Companion.  Her biography has been translated into 17 different languages.

Natalia Ivanovna Sedova (Russian: Ната́лья Ива́новна Седо́ва; 5 April 1882, in Romny, Russian Empire – 23 January 1962, in Corbeil-Essonnes, Paris, France) is best known as the second wife of Leon Trotsky, the Russian revolutionary. She was also an active revolutionary and wrote on cultural matters pertaining to Marxism.

5. Euphrosyne of Kiev (1130 - 1186)

With an HPI of 56.06, Euphrosyne of Kiev is the 5th most famous Ukrainian Companion.  Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages.

Euphrosyne of Kiev (also Euphrosine of Novgorod; Hungarian: Eufrozina; c. 1130 – c. 1193) was Queen consort of Hungary by marriage to King Géza II of Hungary.

6. Ingeborg of Kiev (1100 - 1137)

With an HPI of 51.12, Ingeborg of Kiev is the 6th most famous Ukrainian Companion.  Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Ingeborg Mstislavna of Kiev (fl. 1137) was a Ruthenian princess, married to the Danish prince Canute Lavard of Jutland. She was the daughter of Grand Prince Mstislav I of Kiev and Christina Ingesdotter of Sweden and was in about 1117 married to Canute in a marriage arranged by her maternal aunt, the Danish queen Margaret Fredkulla. In 1130, she tried to prevent Canute from going to the gathering where he was to be murdered, but without success. She gave birth to their son, Valdemar I of Denmark, in January 1131, after her husband's death. In 1137, she refused to support the suggestion of Christiern Svendsen to proclaim her son monarch after the death of her late husband's half-brother Erik Emune. Ingeborg is not mentioned after this, and the date of her birth and death are unknown.