Came up with a couple of ideas , here's what i got

1) renaming rus-cultured knights to Druzhinnik , ( since there was no such word as a
"knight" in Medieval Rus

2) maybe? a culture split like with Visigothic and Norse cultures ,

to represent a seperation of cultures of different regions , there are already 3 more east slavic cultures in the game if im correct(Volhynian,Ilmenian,Severian ) (would suggest making it well into the late game , for example 1050 - 1100 , but idk .

3) You could add a innovation which would give all Your vassals much more autonomy and less taxes - in return for getting a big relation boost with all your direct vassals , this work really good for representing the Feudal crisis that Rus was in before mongol invasion , since most of the time , the local Princes would have more power in their own land while the capital Kiev wasnt as influential as before , even though Kiev was still formally a capital of the Rus

4) One small thing i also wanted to adress - The title Tsar for Rus-cultured emperors is a good addition , but is it possible to make that when a Rus-culture emperor holds the kievan rus empire title(only when talking about this one) - he is instead of Tsar called "Great Kievan Prince" or " Great Prince of Kiev"

5) Renaming son of Rurik in 867 (Helgi the Seer) to Oleg the Seer , as name Oleg is much more often used for this historical figure and Helgi is a more norse way of naming him

6) Maybe? a event chain that would represent the early conquest of Rus by Rurik and Oleg

Originally posted by Warcraft12311111:

Came up with a couple of ideas , here's what i got

1) renaming rus-cultured knights to Druzhinnik , ( since there was no such word as a
"knight" in Medieval Rus

2) maybe? a culture split like with Visigothic and Norse cultures ,

to represent a seperation of cultures of different regions , there are already 3 more east slavic cultures in the game if im correct(Volhynian,Ilmenian,Severian ) (would suggest making it well into the late game , for example 1050 - 1100 , but idk .

3) You could add a innovation which would give all Your vassals much more autonomy and less taxes - in return for getting a big relation boost with all your direct vassals , this work really good for representing the Feudal crisis that Rus was in before mongol invasion , since most of the time , the local Princes would have more power in their own land while the capital Kiev wasnt as influential as before , even though Kiev was still formally a capital of the Rus

4) One small thing i also wanted to adress - The title Tsar for Rus-cultured emperors is a good addition , but is it possible to make that when a Rus-culture emperor holds the kievan rus empire title(only when talking about this one) - he is instead of Tsar called "Great Kievan Prince" or " Great Prince of Kiev"

5) Renaming son of Rurik in 867 (Helgi the Seer) to Oleg the Seer , as name Oleg is much more often used for this historical figure and Helgi is a more norse way of naming him

6) Maybe? a event chain that would represent the early conquest of Rus by Rurik and Oleg

1) Implemented.

2) Might be tricky to implement, I may take a look into it after some research into both the cultural history and the modding aspects. It does sound interesting though.

3) I would like to simulate the feudal crisis of the late Rus, but I don't think an innovation would be the right way of doing it as they're meant to be "buffs" and gameplay enhancements to strengthen your realm. I may look into some sort of event chain that triggers during the 13th/14th centuries or something, but I'm not sure how long that would take to implement.

4) While yes, the specific term Tsar is somewhat anachronistic, you could argue that so is a fully centralised Rus realm as an empire the likes of the HRE or Byzantium. Additionally, there's already Prince for dukedoms and Grand Prince for kingdoms, I feel like Great Prince may add unnecessary confusion and/or bloat the princedom focused terminology of the Rus aristocracy. For these reasons, I think it would be best to keep the top level title as Tsar (which by the way is in the Vanilla game, I just added Tsarevich and Tsarevna for more immersion and consistency).

5) I would love to, but Oleg starts with the Norse culture and historically is described as a Varangian ruler with strong Norse tendencies. Ideally, his name would change from Helgi to Oleg as soon as his culture flips from Norse to Rus, but Paradox hasn't implemented that feature yet (which I believe was present in CK2, if memory serves right). So I'll think about it, but I don't think I will do it, I'd much rather Paradox makes names change with culture (or maybe there's a mod out there that does that? I'll have to check).

6) The decisions currently in Vanilla lead the player as Rurik and his descendants to conquer the Rus well enough in my opinion, so I don't think a whole event chain is necessary here.

Thank you for the excellent suggestions!

This is purely personal request that doesn't necessarily conflict with historical accuracy. I was wondering if you could rename Severian knights to Boyar(s) please?

The thing is that bogatyr is historically and in folklore the 1 in a 1000 hero of great deeds. And are meant to be akin to the elite rarest warriors. I don't think many people mind that, but I personally like to play severian slavs from ground up, and title boyar seems more fitting for knights as a upcoming culture in the game's setting. So I thought that since they don't get any special attention, you could do this nice deed for me.

Thank you, if you would consider anyhow :D

Originally posted by InΔmatus:

This is purely personal request that doesn't necessarily conflict with historical accuracy. I was wondering if you could rename Severian knights to Boyar(s) please?

The thing is that bogatyr is historically and in folklore the 1 in a 1000 hero of great deeds. And are meant to be akin to the elite rarest warriors. I don't think many people mind that, but I personally like to play severian slavs from ground up, and title boyar seems more fitting for knights as a upcoming culture in the game's setting. So I thought that since they don't get any special attention, you could do this nice deed for me.

Thank you, if you would consider anyhow :D

Done. See mod change notes for details

King/Queen not equal to Grand Knyaz or Grand Knyaginya in Russian noble traditions. Grand Knyaz (Grand Prince in Latin tradition) is still a duke, but one the of most powerful of his kind. Grand Knyaz can have many Knyaz vassals and collect tributes from them. But Grand Knyaz is less powerful then a king. So, the king/queen equivalent in Russian noble traditions is called Gosudar' or Gospodar'/Gosudarynya or Gospodarynya. A Russian word with the same root "Государство"/ Gosudarstvo means "State" and the word Gospod' also used to refer to a God. Ar'/"Arynya" ending means Men/Woman, like "Лекарь"/Lekar' (healer) - Men, who heals. So Gosudar can be literally translated as "Man of the state" and Gospodar' as "Man of the God".
English wikipedia kinda messed up calling Dmitry Shemyaka and Vasil II Grand Princes - in fact Dmitry Shemyaka was the first to have a title "Государь и Великий князь всея Руси" - Gosudar and Grand Knyaz of all the Rus (1446). Russian wikipage for Dmitry Shemyaka got his title right. During the reign of Ivan III, the grandfather of Ivan IV (In English he's called Terrible, I dunno why, in fact his nickname was Fearsome), the first mentions of Rus' being called as Rusia appear (with one s, yes, in some Latin languages it's still with one S).
Ivan IV was the first to hold Tsar title - "Государь, Царь и Великий князь всея Руси", which basically means "King, Emperor and Grand Prince of all the Rus".
The appearance of the Tsar title is associated with the fall of Constantinople. because Ivan's IV grandmother Sofia was a niece of the last emperor of Eastern Roman Empire, Constantine XI, who died childless, and the title was succeded by Sofia's father Thomas. By proclaiming himself Tsar, Ivan IV not only claimed to be an Emperor of Rus, but also a successor of Eastern Roman Empire. So Russia had a weak, but still claim on Constantinople, because it is believed that the title should only be succeded by an Orthodox Christian, since it's the only true Christianity.
Peter I of Romanov dynasty was the first to proclaim himself an emperor on western manner, but not the first monach equal to emperor rank, the offical title since 1721 was Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias. Tsar was used for lesser titles since then, like Tsar of Poland, Tsar of Astrakhan etc., but common people called emperors as tsars anyway (and still, when people talk about Russian monarchs) because they preferred to keep the original Russian traditions of eastern manner.

Originally posted by LawfulNeut:

King/Queen not equal to Grand Knyaz or Grand Knyaginya in Russian noble traditions. Grand Knyaz (Grand Prince in Latin tradition) is still a duke, but one the of most powerful of his kind. Grand Knyaz can have many Knyaz vassals and collect tributes from them. But Grand Knyaz is less powerful then a king. So, the king/queen equivalent in Russian noble traditions is called Gosudar' or Gospodar'/Gosudarynya or Gospodarynya. A Russian word with the same root "Государство"/ Gosudarstvo means "State" and the word Gospod' also used to refer to a God. Ar'/"Arynya" ending means Men/Woman, like "Лекарь"/Lekar' (healer) - Men, who heals. So Gosudar can be literally translated as "Man of the state" and Gospodar' as "Man of the God".
English wikipedia kinda messed up calling Dmitry Shemyaka and Vasil II Grand Princes - in fact Dmitry Shemyaka was the first to have a title "Государь и Великий князь всея Руси" - Gosudar and Grand Knyaz of all the Rus (1446). Russian wikipage for Dmitry Shemyaka got his title right. During the reign of Ivan III, the grandfather of Ivan IV (In English he's called Terrible, I dunno why, in fact his nickname was Fearsome), the first mentions of Rus' being called as Rusia appear (with one s, yes, in some Latin languages it's still with one S).
Ivan IV was the first to hold Tsar title - "Государь, Царь и Великий князь всея Руси", which basically means "King, Emperor and Grand Prince of all the Rus".
The appearance of the Tsar title is associated with the fall of Constantinople. because Ivan's IV grandmother Sofia was a niece of the last emperor of Eastern Roman Empire, Constantine XI, who died childless, and the title was succeded by Sofia's father Thomas. By proclaiming himself Tsar, Ivan IV not only claimed to be an Emperor of Rus, but also a successor of Eastern Roman Empire. So Russia had a weak, but still claim on Constantinople, because it is believed that the title should only be succeded by an Orthodox Christian, since it's the only true Christianity.
Peter I of Romanov dynasty was the first to proclaim himself an emperor on western manner, but not the first monach equal to emperor rank, the offical title since 1721 was Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias. Tsar was used for lesser titles since then, like Tsar of Poland, Tsar of Astrakhan etc., but common people called emperors as tsars anyway (and still, when people talk about Russian monarchs) because they preferred to keep the original Russian traditions of eastern manner.

That's really informative, thanks!
I do know that Grand Prince/Knyaz isn't really equivalent to kingship, since gosudar/gospodar means something like sovereign, or ruler, or governor, which would be closer. Grand Prince/Knyaz is closer to Grand Duke in western European noble traditions. And yes, Tsar first appeared around the fall of Constantinople and the end of the Middle Ages, making the term anachronistic for CK3. That said, it's kinda hard to pack all of those historical caveats and details into CK3's simplistic tiered title system. The base is just (from lowest to highest) Baron, Count, Duke, King, Emperor. Look at how historically, the Duchy of Bohemia is called a duchy, but the Duke held far more power and land than any other Duke, so much that he was a Grand Duke in all but name, eventually being raised to the Kingdom of Bohemia. These messy, blurred lines are hard to model in CK3 so minor historical inaccuracies are par for the course here. If a Grand Prince/Knyaz can have Princes/Knyazes as his vassals, I think it's fair to say that it counts as a Kingdom-tier title for the sake of the game. As for the Empire title, well "Tsar" and "Emperor" are there in vanilla by the devs, weird as they are. At the end of the day, "Tsar" come from the same root as "Kaiser", they mean "Caesar" which is effectively just "Emperor of Roman legacy". The Rus was never as centralised as the game models Empire states as, so the whole idea of an Empire-level title is kinda anachronistic. That said, for the sake of clarity, I think it's ok to use "Tsar" here, because it's so recognisable by everyone. Gosudar/Gospodar would be kind of weird I think to have as an Empire title, you'd have effectively not an Empire but a "governorship/rulership/government". Again, for the context of CK3's simple tiered titles, I think it's fine as it is, even though there are many inherent inaccuracies, because these inaccuracies are relatively minor. If you have any additional ideas or suggestions, I would love to hear them though, so thanks again.

Well, problem is that there was no direct equivalent to count rank title in Russian noble tradition until Romanovs, because all non-Rurikids couldn't have any big land ownership. BUT! There were more-less closer positions. In CK 3 county consists of several slots for churches, castles, cities - in Kievan Rus there were uezds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uezd. Uezd is basically county, a smaller part of Knyazhestvo, since Knyazhestvo is for duchy. Each part of uezd is "volost". In Kievan Rus head of uezd is a man, appointed by Knyaz to rule on his behalf, he was called Namestnik (translated as Men on a place LOL, no english wiki for this one, google Наместник) . A noble rank close to barony can be Boyarin (they were small land owners, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyar) or or Volostitel' (Head of the Volost'). Head of the city - Posadnik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posadnik. Though republican duchy ruled still by Knyaz or Knyaz-posadnik. Alexander Nevsky was appointed as Knyaz of Novgorod by Novgorod Vechie, a council of Boyars.
Also, there is a mistake in russian localisation "Русачск" - Russians say Русичи or Rusins (Русины), so it will be "Русичск" or "Русинск", I can send you localisation files if you'd like with all the suggestions above in all forms.

Would've been even better if the spelling if the name was spelled "Kyivan" as Kievan is not the right way of translating the name of the city which the state was named after.

Originally posted by LawfulNeut:

Well, problem is that there was no direct equivalent to count rank title in Russian noble tradition until Romanovs, because all non-Rurikids couldn't have any big land ownership. BUT! There were more-less closer positions. In CK 3 county consists of several slots for churches, castles, cities - in Kievan Rus there were uezds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uezd. Uezd is basically county, a smaller part of Knyazhestvo, since Knyazhestvo is for duchy. Each part of uezd is "volost". In Kievan Rus head of uezd is a man, appointed by Knyaz to rule on his behalf, he was called Namestnik (translated as Men on a place LOL, no english wiki for this one, google Наместник) . A noble rank close to barony can be Boyarin (they were small land owners, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyar) or or Volostitel' (Head of the Volost'). Head of the city - Posadnik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posadnik. Though republican duchy ruled still by Knyaz or Knyaz-posadnik. Alexander Nevsky was appointed as Knyaz of Novgorod by Novgorod Vechie, a council of Boyars.
Also, there is a mistake in russian localisation "Русачск" - Russians say Русичи or Rusins (Русины), so it will be "Русичск" or "Русинск", I can send you localisation files if you'd like with all the suggestions above in all forms.

Localisation files would be great, I'll have a look in a few days and implement changes after some reading on the titles. I'll credit you in the description. Thank you!

Originally posted by yao199:

Would've been even better if the spelling if the name was spelled "Kyivan" as Kievan is not the right way of translating the name of the city which the state was named after.

As far as I know, "Kiev" and "Kyiv" are both correct exonyms in English, they just come from different source languages. I have the city, county, duchy, and kingdom level titles as "Kyiv". The English Wikipedia uses that spelling for the city after all, so it makes sense. But the English Wikipedia for the Rus is spelt "Kievan Rus" so I kept it that way. If the English Wikipedia changes the spelling to "Kyivan Rus", I'll change it here too. I'm just looking for consistency with the source most people use. Thanks for the suggestion! Be assured I'll keep an eye out for changes.

@LawfulNeut
Your suggestions have been implemented, thanks again!
However, I kept "Уéзд" as "County" in English and their respective counterparts in languages other than Russian, because they mean the same thing.

So this is what i would like to see in this mod in future:

1) Split "Russian" culture into 4 diferent cultures.
South keeps Rus culture.
West (Belarus) Krivich or Litvin culture.
North east Rostovian or Suzdal or Rostov-Suzdal culture.
North west Novgorodian culture.

2) Add (if this possible) to Rus culture succession law named "House seniority" because this Succession law worked from 1125 to 1136 in Rus, and was working in smaller duchies.

3) Add decision "Greek Catholicism" when you split Kivean church from byzantine one, and became "catholic" with orthodox traditions (this almost happened in 950 when Olga invited germanic bishops, and really happened in 1596 when this idea became reality)

If you need maps proofs and other stuff contact me in Dis SirCatAngry#5685

In the Russian translation, you don't need to add a dash above the letters, for example here:
https://prnt.sc/JQ2E9GXl6Tx2

Originally posted by bltt6956:

In the Russian translation, you don't need to add a dash above the letters, for example here:
https://prnt.sc/JQ2E9GXl6Tx2

Thanks, fixed that.