Ilya Yaroslavich of Novgorod (1018-c1034)

Ilya Yaroslavich is a hypothetical prince of Novgorod (XI century), the supposed eldest son of Yaroslav the Wise ..

Ilya is mentioned only in the Novgorod Chronicle.

There are also accounts that Ilya's son Yaroslav was born, and put in charge of Novgorod after his death. Then Yaroslav was defeated at Kosnjatina, and imprisoned and the rule of Nizhny Novgorod passed to his son Volodymyr.- }} According to A. Nazarenko, Ilya was a prince of Novgorod from August 1018 to 1019 / 1020 , Янин относит княжение Ильи к 1030—1034 годам.

A. Nazarenko also put forward a hypothesis according to which it was Ilya who was the "son of the King of Russia", who was married to Estrid (Margarita) Danish (from her marriage to Jarl Ulv, the dynasty of Estredsen who ruled in Denmark went to Denmark ). Then the marriage in his opinion could be concluded only about 1019 years.

If Ilya really existed (many historians doubt his existence ), he could have been born only from the alleged first marriage of Yaroslav the Wise, and his mother was the first wife of Yaroslav (presumably Anna), mentioned in Titmar's chronicle under 1018, as being in captivity to Bolesław Polish ..

It is possible that Ilya also had another, "princely" pagan name, which has not reached us; perhaps, information about him was taken by a chronicler from a church memorial, where only the Christian name was used.