The Russian Rurik Expedition ("Rurick Expedition") was a circumnavigation of the world that took place from July 30, 1815 to August 3, 1818 under the command...
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during the Rurik expedition 1818: Royal Navy expedition led by captain David Buchan sails north from Spitsbergen 1818: Royal Navy expedition led by John...
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he got the opportunity to join the Russian expedition on the circumnavigational expeditionary ship Rurik commanded by Otto von Kotzebue. The other naturalists...
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the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe. He also funded the Rurik expedition led by Otto von Kotzebue. As a result, his name came to be attached...
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Re-discovering Adelbert von Chamisso’s skull of an Aleut collected during the “Rurik” Expedition 1815–1818, in: Alaska. Zoosystematics and Evolution 89 (2): 317–336...
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the son of Rurik, who established himself at Novgorod and died in 879 while Igor was an infant. According to the Primary Chronicle, Rurik was succeeded...
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round-the-world voyage on the sloop Rurik. In September, the Emperor requested a detailed report on the expedition. The report was prepared by Krusenstern...
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the leadership of Rurik. Before Rurik, the Rus' might have ruled an earlier hypothetical polity known as the Rus' Khaganate. Rurik's relative Oleg conquered...
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Re-discovering Adelbert von Chamisso's skull of an Aleut collected during the "Rurik" Expedition 1815–1818 in Alaska. Zoosystematics and Evolution 89 (2), 2013, S...
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whose rule and subsequent childless death led directly to the end of the Rurik dynasty and the beginning of the Time of Troubles. The English word terrible...
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America on board the Russian expeditionary ship Rurik, serving as an artist with the Romanzoff expedition under the command of Lieutenant Otto von Kotzebue...
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von Chamisso, for a sailing trip around the world with the Russian Rurik Expedition, which had been organized to find a Northwest Passage (Kremer, 1999...
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of the heir to the Rus kingdom, Igor and brother in law of Igor's father Rurik. Oleg is sadistic and uses his status as Igor's protector as a pretext for...
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Shakhovskoy (section Pedigree from Rurik)
the name of a princely Russian and Ukrainian family descending from the Rurik Dynasty, and as such, one of the oldest noble families of the Russian Empire...
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expense of the imperial chancellor, Count Nikolay Rumyantsev, on the brig Rurik. In this vessel, with only twenty-seven men, including the naturalists Johann...
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East Slavic, Norse, and Finnic, it was ruled by the Rurik dynasty, founded by the Varangian prince Rurik. The name was coined by Russian historians in the...
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Rorik of Dorestad (section Rorik and Rurik)
T. (1929). Riurik Iutlandskii i Riurik Nachal'noi letopisi [Rurik of Jutland and Rurik of the Primary Chronicle]" (3) (Seminarium Kondakoviamm ed.)....
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assembled by Vladimir-Suzdal prince Andrey Bogolyubsky Siege of Kiev (1203), by Rurik Rostislavich Siege of Kiev (1240), during the Mongol invasion of Rus' Sack...
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Viking (cruise line) (category Expedition cruising)
(formerly Viking Cruises) is a cruise line providing river, ocean, and expedition cruises. Its operating headquarters are in Basel, Switzerland, and its...
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Friedrich von Eschscholtz, a doctor who was part of a Russian expedition aboard the Rurik between 1815 and 1818. A fossil species H. ruffoi is known from...
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of the Primary Chronicle relates that Askold and Dir were sanctioned by Rurik to go to Constantinople (Norse Miklagård, Slavic Tsargrad). When travelling...
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instability and a violent succession crisis upon the extinction of the Rurik dynasty, and was ravaged by a major famine from 1601 to 1603. Poland exploited...
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naturalist on the Russian expeditionary ship Rurik under the command of Otto von Kotzebue. From 1815 to 1818 the expedition circumnavigated the globe for the purposes...
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per year. The period includes the upheavals of the transition from the Rurik to the Romanov dynasties, wars with the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth,...
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Stenka Razin (section Persian expedition)
1613, had proven a difficult period for Russia. The direct male line of Rurik dynasty tsars died out in 1598, and the rule of the Romanov dynasty (which...
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ocean discovery led the first dive expedition to include extensive penetration into Britannic. Video of the expedition was broadcast by National Geographic...
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From Drutsk, Svyatoslav Vsevolodovich traveled south to evict grand prince Rurik Rostislavich from the Kievan land. Meanwhile, Igor, accompanied by Khans...
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Last Days of Europe Russian Warlord state led by Nikolay Krylov, turned "Rurik II". Kenopia Totally Spies! A monarchy in Africa, which for 20 years was...
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Russia Periods Prehistory • Antiquity • Early Slavs 879–1240: Ancient Rus' Rurik • Baptism of Rus' • Russkaya Pravda 1240–1480: Feudal Rus' Council of Liubech...
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According to the Primary Chronicle, a Varangian from the Rus' people, named Rurik, was elected ruler of Novgorod in 862. In 882, his successor Oleg ventured...
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