Ejemplos de uso de Varangian
1. This, however, has never been an impediment to ruling Russia –– going back to the Varangian Rus principalities of the 'th century.
2. The unbroken chain of almost 30 appointments of local politicians to the governor‘s office came to an end with the appointment of what is sometimes called a "Varangian," a loyal outsider sent by the ruler to run the show.
3. Email the Opinion Page EditorNearly 150 years ago, poet Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy wrote a tongue–in–cheek history of Russia, with the oft–quoted refrain: "Abundant is our land, / It lacks only order." The poem plays on the account in the Povest Vremennykh Let, known in English as the Primary Chronicle, of how, in search of order and discipline, the principalities of ancient Rus invited Varangian princes to rule their land.