# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rurik
# Generated: 2026-09-01T13:45:43.335Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rurik"
name: "Rurik"
slug: "rurik"
description: "A Varangian chieftain who, by invitation rather than conquest, became the origin point of a dynasty that would rule Russian lands for over seven centuries."
tagline: "Varangian chieftain (c. 830-879)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rurik_titularnik.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "830"
deathDate: "879"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           59.65
  momentum:             1.210948012232416
  historical:           23.884132
  currentAttention:     8.717671472258628
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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  - name: "Politics"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurik_af_Novgorod"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rjurik"
    title: "Rjurik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rjoerik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruric"
    title: "Ruric"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Rurik arrived in Novgorod in 862, summoned by tradition to bring order where local rule had failed. He reigned until his death in 879, leaving behind an infant son, Igor, and a kinsman, Oleg, to serve as regent. That moment of succession set in motion the Rurik dynasty, which would govern Kievan Rus' and its scattered principalities, then the Tsardom of Russia itself, until Feodor I died in 1598. The line stretched across more than 700 years, making this Varangian chieftain the root of the Russian monarchy—a founder not by blood spilled but by an invitation extended.