Gostomysl

thumb|Gostomysl depicted on the first plate of the book Illustrated History of the Russian State|Karamzin (1836), depicting the history of Russia. Gostomysl (, ) was a legendary 9th-century prince or posadnik of Novgorod, who was introduced in chronicles of the XV century and developed in the Russian historiography by Vasily Tatishchev (1686–1750).

==Legendary account== Gostomysl was a figure appearing in later works of Russia history. He was named as the first elder of Novgorod according to a list of posadniks in the Novgorod First Chronicle. In the genealogies of XVI's work, The Tale of the Princes of Vladimir, Gostomysl appears as the ruler of Novgorod after a period of desolation, who advised the calling of someone of "Augustan lineage" (Rurik) from "prussian lands" to the Rus.