Rurik or Riurik, c. 830 – 879. Varangian chieftain of the Rus', founder of the Rurik dynasty or Rurikids, who in the year 862 gained control of Ladoga and built the Holmgard settlement near Novgorod. After the painting by Margaret Dovaston, (1884 - 1954). From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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