Truvor went some hundred miles further south to Truvor, in the vicinity of Smolensk.
Thus there were three sovereigns established in Russia, united by the ties of interest and consanguinity.

It was then that this region acquired the name of Russia, from the Norman tribe who furnished these three sovereigns.

The Russia which thus emerged into being was indeed an infant, compared with the gigantic empire in this day of its growing and vigorous manhood.

It embraced then but a few thousand square miles, being all included in the present provinces of St.
Petersburg, Novgorod and Pskov.

But two years passed away ere Sineous and Truvor died, and Rurik united their territories with his own, and thus established the Russian monarchy.