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Rurik

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Ru·rik  (rrk, rrk) Died c. 879.
Scandinavian warrior and the founder of the dynasty that ruled Russia until 1598.
Rurik, Ryurik [ˈrʊərɪk]
n
(Biographies / Rurik (death date: 879) M, Russiannational of birth: Norse, POLITICS: hereditary ruler) died 879. Varangian (Scandinavian Viking) leader who founded the Russian monarchy. He gained control over Novgorod (?862) and his dynasty, theRurikids, ruled until 1598
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And with all this, Stepan Arkadyevitch, who liked a joke, was fond of puzzling a plain man by saying that if he prided himself on his origin, he ought not to stop at Rurik and disown the first founder of his family--the monkey.
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Prince Andrew was looking at a large gilt frame, new to him, containing the genealogical tree of the Princes Bolkonski, opposite which hung another such frame with a badly painted portrait (evidently by the hand of the artist belonging to the estate) of a ruling prince, in a crown- an alleged descendant of Rurik and ancestor of the Bolkonskis.
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