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The Rus are the Vikings who started the original Russian states in Novgorod, Smolensk, Kiev, etc. together known as the Kievan Rus and ruled it for 8 centuries
by trhway 5y ago
The Rus are the Vikings who started the original Russian states in Novgorod, Smolensk, Kiev, etc. together known as the Kievan Rus and ruled it for 8 centuries afterwards. The last Viking bloodline Russian tzar was Ivan the Terrible.