Vikings Had Major Influence on Modern Russians

A new study published in the journal Russian History has revealed some surprising details about economic, political, and cultural developments in medieval and modern Russia. It seems that the Russian versions of the Vikings, the famed Scandinavian conquerors and marauders who profoundly influenced societal development throughout Eurasia more than 1,000 years ago, had an outsized impact on Russia´s subsequent history. Even today, the author of the new study states, Russian society is still feeling the impact of its pillaging-and-plundering past, which ended much later than the Scandinavian era it copied.