| They saw Rurik shift his grip on his sword hilt and Banor stretch his right arm, ready to use magic. |
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| Finally the Grand Dukes of Russia, through a successive line of splendid leaders and rulers of Rurik descent, had gradually defeated, conquered and subjugated. |
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| Around the 860 Rus', a group of Vikings perhaps from Roden, Sweden, began to rule the area under their leader Rurik. |
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| Two of the brothers died, and Rurik became the sole ruler of the territory and progenitor of the Rurik Dynasty. |
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| The tribes were united and ruled under the leadership of Rurik, a leader of a group of Varangians. |
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| The Varangians later assimilated into the Slavic population and became part of the first Rus' dynasty, the Rurik Dynasty. |
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| Rurik led the Rus' until his death in about 879, bequeathing his kingdom to his kinsman, Prince Oleg, as regent for his young son, Igor. |
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| Oleg continued to develop and expand a network of Rus' forts in Slav lands, begun by Rurik in the north. |
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| Concurrently with it the Ruthenian Federation of Kievan Rus' started to disintegrate into smaller principalities as the Rurik dynasty grew. |
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| Ivan's murder of his son brought about the extinction of the Rurik Dynasty and the Time of Troubles. |
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| Meanwhile, descendants of Rurik expanded the Rus' state and unified the local tribes. |
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| According to the 12th century Kievan Primary Chronicle, a group of Varangians known as the Rus' settled in Novgorod in 862 under the leadership of Rurik. |
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| Before Rurik, the Rus' might have ruled an earlier hypothetical polity. |
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| In 1598 Feodor died without an heir, ending the Rurik Dynasty. |
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| Zuckerman associates this recovery with the arrival of Rurik and his men, who turned their attention from the Volga to the Dnieper, for reasons as yet uncertain. |
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| Rurik had successfully been able to establish a set of trading towns and posts along the Volga and Dnieper Rivers, which were perfect for trade with the Byzantine Empire. |
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