A person from Rus.
The medieval East Slavic state established by these same warrior merchants in the 9th century, whose capital was first in Novgorod and then in Kiev; Kievan Rus.
The nation of Russia, especially in a transcendent or romantic sense referring to the history and culture of the country.
A people made up of Scandinavian warrior merchants who travelled Eastern European river-roads from the eighth century, and whose settlements around Novgorod, Kiev and the Volga and Dnieper gave rise to the Russian principalities.
Any of the medieval East Slavic principalities ruled by this class, especially Kievan Rus.