Askold and Dir
The "Primary Chronicle" relates that Askold and Dir were sanctioned by Rurik to go to Constantinople (Norse "Miklagård", Slavic "Tsargrad"). When travelling on the Dnieper, they settled in Kiev seizing power over the Polans who were paying tribute to the Khazars. The chronicle also states that they were killed by Oleg the Seer in 882, yet they were buried in various places. According to the Primary Chronicle he tricked and killed Askold and Dir using an elaborate scheme. Vasily Tatischev, Boris Rybakov and some other Russian and Ukrainian historians interpreted the 882 coup d'état in Kiev as the reaction of the pagan Varangians to Askold's baptism. Tatischev went so far as to style Askold "the first Russian martyr".