The Rurik dynasty is the very first grand-ducal dynasty on the Russian throne. It was established, according to the text of the Tale of Bygone Years, in 862. This date has a symbolic name "calling of the Varangians".
The Rurik dynasty lasted 8 centuries. During this time there were a lot of displacements, distrust, conspiracies against its representatives. The first representative of the dynasty, that is, its founder, Rurik. This prince was invited to rule in Novgorod by the people's council of the city. Rurik laid the foundation of statehood in Russia, became the founder of the first grand ducal dynasty. But it is worth noting that more than half of the representatives of the Ruriks still came from Kievan Rus.
So, the Rurik dynasty, the list of which will be presented below with all the characteristics of its figures, has its own branched system. The second representative was Oleg. He was the governor of Rurik and ruled during the infancy of his son. He is known for uniting Novgorod and Kyiv, and also for signing the first treaty between Russia and Byzantium. When Rurik's son Igor grew up, power passed into his hands. Igor conquered and conquerednew territories, imposing tribute on them, because of which he was brutally killed by the Drevlyans. After Igor, power passed into the hands of his wife, Princess Olga. This wise woman carried out the first economic reform on Russian soil, establishing lessons and churchyards. When the son of Olga and Igor Svyatoslav grew up, naturally, all power went to him.
But this prince was distinguished by his military thinking and was constantly on campaigns. After Svyatoslav, Vladimir 1, better known as Vladimir the Holy, ascended the throne.
He baptized Russia at the end of the 10th century. After Vladimir, Svyatopolk ruled, he was in an internecine war with his brothers, in which Yaroslav the Wise won. That's really whose rule was great: the first Russian code of laws was compiled, the Pechenegs were defeated and great temples were erected. After the reign of Yaroslav, Russia will remain in a kind of turmoil for a long time, because the struggle for the great princely throne is getting tougher and no one wants to lose it.
The Rurik dynasty, whose tree was very complex, received the next great ruler after almost 100 years. They became Vladimir Monomakh. He was the organizer of the Lyubech Congress, he defeated the Polovtsy and preserved the relative unity of Russia. The Rurik dynasty branched out again after his reign.
Yury Dolgoruky and Andrey Bogolyubsky can be singled out from this period. Both princes were prominent figures in the era of fragmentation of Russia. The remaining period of the existence of this dynasty will be remembered for severalnames: Vasily 1, Ivan Kalita, Ivan 3, Vasily 3 and Ivan the Terrible. It is with the names of these figures that the creation of a unified Russian state is connected, it was they who began the annexation of all the lands to Moscow, and they also finished it.
The Rurik dynasty gave our land statehood, vast spacious territories that were united by the last representatives of this dynasty, an extensive cultural heritage.
