Rurik
(c. 830 – c. 879) was a
Varangian chieftain who gained control of Ladoga in
862, built the Holmgard settlement near Novgorod,
and founded the Rurik Dynasty which ruled Kievan Rus
and then Russia until the 16th century.
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