The Rurik Dynasty is the very first Grand Dynasty on the Russian throne. She established herself, 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 was a mass of displacements, distrust, conspiracies against its representatives. The first representative of the dynasty, that is, its founder, Rurik. This prince was invited to rule the city’s people's council in Novgorod. Rurik laid the foundation of statehood in Russia, became the founder of the first grand dynasty. But it is worth noting that a large half of the representatives of Rurikovchii still came from Kievan Rus.
So, the Rurik dynasty, a list of which will be presented below with all the characteristics of its leaders, has its own ramified 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 Kiev, and also signed the first treaty of Russia with Byzantium. When Rurik’s son Igor grew up, power passed into his hands. Igor conquered and conquered new territories, imposing a tribute to 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 graveyards. 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 St. Vladimir, ascended the throne.
He baptized Russia at the end of the 10th century. After Vladimir, Svyatopolk ruled, he was in a civil war with his brothers, the victory of which was won by Yaroslav the Wise. That’s whose rule was great: the first Russian code of laws was drafted, 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 tightening 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 Lubey Congress, he defeated the Polovtsy and preserved the relative unity of Russia. The dynasty of the Rurikovich after his reign forked again.
Yuri Dolgoruky and Andrei Bogolyubsky can be distinguished 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 by several names: 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 single Russian state is connected, it was they who began the annexation of all lands to Moscow and they completed.
The Rurik dynasty gave our land statehood, vast spacious territories that were united by the last representatives of this dynasty, an extensive cultural heritage.