Rurik

Arthur fleet had reached Europe, and on the very day that Kamimura defeated the Vladivostock squadron and sank the "Rurik" -- Admiral Rojdestvensky hoisted his flag on board his flagship, the "Knias Suvaroff," at Cronstadt.

Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

The operation known as Rurik's Hammer, the lightning military conquest of all of Scandinavia, had been designed to solidify popular support for the resurrected Soviet government at home despite the rationing, the purges, and the KGB crackdowns; to cow a fragmented and weakened NATO already over-extended in the war-ravaged Balkans; and to remind continental Europe of the might of Soviet arms.

Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994

The "Rurik" was sunk, and the "Gromoboi" and "Rossia" returned to Vladivostock, bearing marks of very hard hitting -- riddled funnels, and sides hastily patched with plates of iron, told of the straight shooting of the Japanese cruisers.

Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

The reign of the Romanovs began in the so-called troubled time, after the death of the last tsar of the Rurik dynasty in 1598.

Great dynasties of the world: The Romanovs 2011

"If they look like bison, behave like bison, and live in the historical range of bison, let's keep them," says Rurik List , an ecologist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Wondering if That's a Genuine Bison? Try Pulling Its Tail Stephanie Simon 2011

Stephanie Simon/The Wall Street Journal 'If they look like bison, behave like bison, and live in the historical range of bison, let's keep them,' says Rurik List, an ecologist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Taking the Breed by the Tail 2011

Then Rurik broke with the king and perished while leading a faction of Ascalonians into Kryta.

Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010

Back before the Searing, they started out as the Ascalon Vanguard, an elite unit that fought alongside Prince Rurik and later ventured into the charr lands to take the battle to them.

Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010

“But, Your Majesty,” he said, “I come here on behalf of your son, Prince Rurik!”

Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010

Prince Rurik, by the way, never made it to Kryta with his followers: he gave his own life so that they might find their freedom.

Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010