Rurik is a 5 letter English word.
You can make 20 anagrams from letters in Rurik (ikrru).
Scandinavian in origin, the dynasty of Rurik was reaching out hands of brotherhood towards its kinsmen in the West.
Oleg, the fourth brother of Rurik, was his successor, his son Igor being yet a minor.
Of the three brothers, only one, Rurik, lived for a number of years.
It is recorded that it counted 100,000 inhabitants, when Rurik arrived in Russia.
The people of the country, the peasants, were not quite so free as when Rurik landed.
When the Rurik appeared, Kadu was in the woods a long way from the coast.
Yaroslaf confirmed the free institutions which Rurik had respected.
Branches of the house of Rurik remained, yet no member of it dared aspire to that throne which the tyrant Ivan had made odious.
The death of Oleg brought Igor his ward, then nearly forty years of age, to the throne of Rurik his father.
Russia had made a remarkable stride forward as a nation since Rurik was invited to Novgorod a quarter-century before.
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