{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Context XXI","provider_url":"http:\/\/contextxxi.org","title":"The beginnings of the Russian church\n","author_name":"Amelie Lanier","width":"1200","height":"800","url":"https:\/\/licra.contextxxi.org\/the-beginnings-of-the-russian.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/licra.contextxxi.org\/the-beginnings-of-the-russian.html'\u003EThe beginnings of the Russian church\n\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003EChristianity came to the Russians through Kiev, perhaps the oldest city of Europe, \u201dthe mother of all cities\u201c .\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe \u201dBaptism of the Rus\u201c , that is the mass conversion to Christianity by the inhabitants of the first Russian empire, the Kievian Rus, is linked to the name of the Kievian Grand Duke Vladimir Svjatoslavjevich, the \u201dGolden Little Sun\u201c , and the year 988. All this is more based on myths, or state and clerical propaganda, than on facts.\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe rulers of the Rus already for \u003Ca href=\"..\/the-beginnings-of-the-russian.html\" class=' pts_suite'\u003E(...)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}