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Igor of Kiev. Igor (Church Slavonic: Игорь; [1][a] Old Norse: Ingvarr; [2] c. 877 – 945) [3][4][5] was Prince of Kiev from 912 to 945. [6] Traditionally, he is considered to be the son of Rurik, who established himself at Novgorod and died in 879 while Igor was an infant. [7] According to the Primary Chronicle, Rurik was succeeded by ...
The Rurik dynasty,[a]also known as the Rurikidor Riurikid dynasty, as well as simply Rurikidsor Riurikids,[1]was a noble lineage allegedly founded by the Varangianprince Rurik, who, according to tradition, established himself at Novgorodin the year 862. [2][3][4]The Rurikids were the ruling dynastyof Kievan Rus'and its principalities following ...
Rurik (also spelled Rorik, Riurik or Ryurik; [1][2][3][4] Church Slavonic: Рюрикъ, romanized: Rjurikŭ; [5][b] Old Norse: Hrøríkʀ; died 879) [6][7][a] was a Varangian chieftain of the Rus' who, according to tradition, was invited to reign in Novgorod in the year 862. [1][10] The Primary Chronicle states that Rurik was succeeded by his ...
According to the Primary Chronicle, Oleg was a "relative" or "kinsman" of Rurik, [14] and was entrusted by Rurik to take care of both his realm and his young son Igor. However, his relation to Rurik is debatable, and has been rejected by several modern scholars. [13] Oleg is narrated to have succeeded Rurik as the ruler of Novgorod in 879.
Rurik is considered to be a legendary character by modern scholars; while some think he may be a mythical and perhaps even entirely fictional character (with Donald Ostrowski (2018) suggesting that "the chronicler" may have "created a fictional ruler named Riurik to provide [a] justification" for Igor's reign [23]), others such as Norman W ...
Rurik c. 830 –879 Prince of Novgorod r. 862–879: Igor I d. 945 Prince of Kiev r. 914–945: Olga c. 890 –969 Regent of Kiev 945–960s: Predslava: Sviatoslav I c. 942 –972 Prince of Kiev r. 945–972: Malusha: Yaropolk I c. 959 –980 Prince of Kiev r. 972–980: Oleg d. 977 Prince of Drevlians: Vladimir I the Great c. 958 –1015 Grand ...
881/2 (6390): Rurik's successor, Oleg, sent messengers to Askold and Dir, representing himself as a stranger on his way to Greece on an errand for Oleg and for Igor', the prince's son, requesting a meeting. He then ambushed Askold and Dir, saying: "You are not princes nor even of princely stock, but I am of princely birth."
We may suppose that the names of Rurik and his kin, of Askold and Dir, and of Oleg and Igor' survived in popular legend at Kiev in somewhat the same fashion as the heroes of the later bÿlinÿ. The problem for the author of the Primary Chronicle was to extract from these fragmentary survivals the semblance of an historical account.