Rulers
Rurik
Ladoga / Novgorod
Show on the timeline- Lifespan
- Unknown — 879, according to the chronicle
- Reign
- 862–879, conventional chronicle chronology
Chronicle tradition associates Rurik with the beginning of the princely dynasty. His origins and the circumstances of his rise to power remain subjects of research; no contemporary accounts of him survive.
- Dynasty
- Rurikids
- Centre of power
- Ladoga / Novgorod
- Reliability of dates
- 862 and 879 are dates from the later chronicle tradition
- Images
- No portrait made during his lifetime is known; surviving depictions are later