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The historical novel "Rurik of the Skjeldung" continues the theme of the formation of the Kyivan Rus state, begun by Les Kachkovsky in his previous book "Prince Askold's Choice."

The story is centred on the legendary Novgorodian Prince Rurik, the son of a Danish conqueror and an Obedritic princess, a margrave of Frisland, a Viking, a pirate.

The author perfectly destroys the imperial myth of the Norman theory of the origin of Kyivan Rus, showing Rurik as a strong leader who only dreamed of creating a pan-Slavic state modelled on the Frankish empire, but did not create it even in the Northern lands.