40 amazing facts about the first Russian tsars - kind of Rurik

Rhode Rurik was in power in Russia for seven centuries. He left behind a lot of noble descendants and puzzles! < Website


Rurik ruled for 748 years - from 862 in 1610. It is not known virtually nothing about the founder of the dynasty - Rurik. Until the XV century, none of the Russian tsars called himself "Rurik". Scientific debate about the identity of Rurik began only in the XVIII century. The common ancestors of Rurik are: the missing The first American President George Washington was also Rurik. including Winston Churchill. «Father NASA" Wernher von Braun was also Rurik.
via russian7.ru/2015/12/40-interesnykh-faktov-o-rode-ryurikovichey/