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- The Rus ' were a group of Norsemen from Sweden who settled in modern-day Ukraine, Belarus, and northwestern Russia. Their name comes from the word Ruotsi, an Old Norse term meaning "the men who row". The Rus' were responsible for the foundation of the Kievan Rus' state.
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The Rus', also known as Russes, were a people in early medieval Eastern Europe. The scholarly consensus holds that they were originally Norsemen, mainly originating from present-day Sweden, who settled and ruled along the river-routes between the Baltic and the Black Seas from around the 8th to 11th centuries AD.
Rus' people. The Rus ' were a group of Norsemen from Sweden who settled in modern-day Ukraine, Belarus, and northwestern Russia. Their name comes from the word Ruotsi, an Old Norse term meaning "the men who row". The Rus' were responsible for the foundation of the Kievan Rus' state.
The Russians ( Russian: русские, romanized : russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group indigenous to Eastern Europe, who share a common Russian ancestry, culture, and history.
The history of Russia begins with the East Slavs, Turkic, and the Finno-Ugric peoples. [1] [2] [3] [4] Parts of Southern Russia around the Black Sea were settled by Greeks and Romans until about the 3rd century. Huns and Turkic tribes invaded the regions around the Black Sea until the 10th century.
Olga ( Church Slavonic: Ольга; [2] [a] Old Norse: Helga; [3] c. 890–925 – 11 July 969) [4] was a regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Sviatoslav from 945 until 960. Following her baptism, Olga took the name Elenа. [b] She is known for her subjugation of the Drevlians, a tribe that had killed her husband Igor.
Originally, the name Rus ' ( Cyrillic: Русь) referred to the people, [1] regions, and medieval principalities (9th to 12th centuries) within the territory of the Kievan Rus'. Today its territory is distributed among Belarus, Ukraine, Eastern Poland, and the European section of Russia. The term Россия ( Rossiya ), comes from the ...
The Ruling Families of Rus: Clan, Family and Kingdom. By Christian Raffensperger and Donald Ostrowski. Dynasties. London: Reaktion Books, 2023. Books by Fellows. Explores the fascinating history of Kyivan Rus' and its diverse ruling families, spanning centuries of political alliances and cultural influences.
