This book dispels the widely-held view that paganism survived in medieval and early modern Russia alongside orthodoxy.
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"This book dispels the widely held view that paganism survived in Russia alongside Orthodox Christianity, demonstrating that 'double belief', dvoeverie, is in fact an academic myth. Scholars, citing the medieval origins of the term, have often portrayed Russian Christianity as u…
"This book explores the history of Russian peasant bride theft - abduction and capture - from the adoption of Christianity in Kievan Rus in the late tenth century to the very early twentieth century. It argues that bride theft in eighteenth and nineteenth century Russia was prac…