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Rurik or Ruric (ONorse Hrörekr, Russ. Rjurik). (d. 879) The founder of a Russian Empire. According to Nestor, he was the leader of a band of Varangians who settled in Novgorod in 862.
John Clark Ridpath, Ridpath's History of the World, Vol. II (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 657. (Ruric the Great.)
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