The Rurik Dynasty was the ruling dynasty of Russia from 862 to 1598. More precisely, though, Russia per se did not exist during this time. The state that existed from 862 until 1240 (see Mongol invasion of Russia) is called the Kievan Rus'. The Mongols forced the Rurikid rulers to withdraw to the city of Novgorod. After the 1480s, the dynasty ruled over a state called Muscovy and held court at Moscow.
Among the descendents of the Rurik dynasty are a few noble families of Russia (Dolgoruki, Bogolubski, Staricki) and former Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Poland (Wareg-Massalski, Ostrogski, Zaslawski and others).
The dynasty was established by Rurik, a Varangian ruler of Novgorod, and became extinct with the death of the imbecile tsar Feodor I. After Feodor's death, an unstable period known as the Time of Troubles ensued, and lasted until 1613. That year, Mikhail I took the throne, founding the Romanov dynasty that would last for three centuries.
Rus’ lands and growing independence of individual principalities from the Kyivan center resulted in the creation of some 15 (and later more) autonomous Riurykide houses, which were denoted genealogically either by the name of the principality they controlled or by the name of their founder.
dynasty were the Monomakhovych house of Kyiv and Volhynia, descended from
Mstyslavych; the Rostyslavych house of Galicia, descended from
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