Identifier: historyofallnati09wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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Map.—Russia about 962 A. D. Hiaiory oj All Xatiom, lol. IS., paijc 3S7. RURIK AND THE RUSSIANS. 387 They begged them to restore order, and settle among them. Rvuik,with his l)rothers Siiieus and Tnivor, accepted the proffer, and gotNovgorod into their power. With true Norman adaptaljility, Rurikand his companions so thoroughly adopted the customs and waysof the people as to become veritable Slavs. They became identicalwith the ruling race, which was called Russian. Its rule soonspread from Novgorod. The Russians advanced along the Dnieper,and soon forced the Byzantine empire to pay tribute. They alsoconquered the savage Chazars, who were settled between the Cas-pian Sea and the Don and Dnieper, and made Kieff the capitalof their state, of which Rurik was grand prince. Rurik died in879, when his brother Oleg, the guardian of his sons, carried outhis schemes. When he came of age, Igor, the son of Rurik, broughtthem to their conclusion. He made the Byzantines still more de-pendent, and

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