Rurik or Riurik (Old Church Slavonic: Рюрик from Rørik the Old East Norse form of the name Roderick; 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 later Grand Duchy of Moscow and Tsardom of Russia) until the 17th century.
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