1. Rurik

We are rating Rurik, the founder of the Rurikid dynasty. Will he set the stage for the next 1200+ years?
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Rurik (Novgorod Statue)
Дар Ветер, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Rurik Titularnik
collective, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Rorik by H. W. Koekkoek
Hermanus Willem Koekkoek, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Rurik and his brother Sineus and Truvor arrive at Ladoga by Viktor Vasnetsov
Viktor Vasnetsov (1848-1926), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Bibliography

• History of Russia: Volume 1 - Ancient Russia by George Vernadsky
  
• A Cambridge History of Russia by Maureen Perrie
  
• The Russian Primary Chronicle