Post #606

"The true Russia is the one which Petrinism tried to coerce. It is the Russia of Illya Muromyets, Minin, Ivan Grosny, Pozharsky, Theophilus of Pskov, Avakkum, Boris Godunov, Arakcheyev, Dostoievski, the Skoptski and Vassili Shuiski. It is the Russia of Moscow, “the Third Rome,”the mystical successor to Rome and Byzantium. “A fourth there cannot be,” wrote the monk Theophilus. This Russia identifies itself with humanity, and despises the “rotten West.”"