Sure, I get it. According to the Normanist theory, they were Nose. Rurik, Oleg, maybe even Rurik's son Igor... But Sviatoslav? Fairly sure he should be Slavic.
Why are all Russian pagan rulers Germanic?
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Normanist theory? It's pretty much accepected by the whole historians that they were Norse. No serious historian denies this. Sviatoslav is the odd case her, yes. I think he should be put as Slavic, since the Norse already adopted local customs at this point
Yes, and that is what historians refer to as the Normanist theory.
"In its various forms the Normanist theory prevails to this day among Western historians, particularly those of Germany and the Scandinavian countries (eg, H. Arbman, T. Arne, O. Hötzsch, K. Rahbek Schmidt, A. Stender-Petersen, G. Stöckl), among Russian émigré historians (eg, N. Beliaev, V. Kiparsky, V. Moshin, P. Struve, M. Taube, A. Vasiliev, and George Vernadsky), and among Polish historians (eg, H. Paszkiewicz). Most Western textbooks present the Normanist interpretation."
He isn't. By 1066 even Yaroslav the Wise is dead, and that's his grandson.
