In Vikings season six, Ivar the Boneless (played by Alex Hogh Andersen) meets his match in Prince Oleg of Novgorod ... did rule the Kievan Rus between 879 until 912. He succeeded Rurik, the ...

Veliky Novgorod (589 ... “ladya” boat towards his town and being welcomed by the ringing bells of the two cathedrals. It is indisputable that Vikings lived in Rurik’s settlement as well ...

"Russia's oldest city, cradle of Russian democracy, medieval centre of trade and crafts…" This is how Veliky Novgorod ... Rurik's official founding of the city in 862. The Rurik dynasty was to ...

At each of these historical crossroads the people made fateful choices that forged the country into the Russia we know today. According to ancient Russian chronicles, in 862 legendary Varangian ...