Holy Russia and Christian Europe

By William Van Den Bercken, John Bowden (translator),

Book cover of Holy Russia and Christian Europe: East and West in the Religious Ideology of Russia

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In 1997, the Cathedral of Christ the Redeemer in Moscow was solemnly brought into use in the presence of Patriarch Aleksij and President Boris Yeltsin. It is a spectacular expression of the national religious revival of Russia and the expression in stone of a myth cherished by Russians down their…

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Victor Roudometof

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Νumerous books about the troubled relationship between Russia and the West. But it is extraordinarily challenging to manage to condense the history of a rich and varied relationship within a few hundred pages.

In this book, the author succeeds in covering several centuries of history and numerous complicated topics and subtopics within the span of fewer than 300 pages.

A splendid work precisely because it is concise, it covers the history of this relationship from Medieval times up to the modern era.

From Victor's list on a quick introduction to Orthodox Christianity.