The nation of Russia, especially in a transcendent or romantic sense referring to the history and culture of the country.
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.
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.
A person from Rus.
The Russian Empire; the tsarist empire in Russia lasting from 1721 to 1917.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (a very common name, although more formally Russia, the RSFSR, was one of several constituent republics of the USSR).
A country in Eastern Europe and North Asia, bordering on the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and the Baltic, Black, and Caspian Seas; established as an independent country in 1991 upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it is the largest country in the world. Co-official name: Russian Federation, formerly the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) (among other names) from 1917 to 1991. Capital and largest city: Moscow.