Russians
This book examines the history of the Russian peoples from the time of the first inhabitants of "Old Russia", or "Rus", up to the present day.
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This book examines the history of the Russian peoples from the time of the first inhabitants of "Old Russia", or "Rus", up to the present day.
List of PlatesList of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction1Rus as Land and People1Rus and Rossiya1Rus as Land: Its Characteristics4The Human Landscape13Wooden Russia282Rus as People and as State37The East Slavs37The Origins of Rus47The People and Government of Rus55The Service State63Aftermath763Belief Systems83Introductory83Russian 'Paganism' and Folk Belief84The Coming of Christianity91Christianized Rus and 'Double Belief'96Holy Rus and the Orthodox World103Russian Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy111Sects and Schism117Beyond the Schism1264'Let us Join Word to Word'133Russian Traditional Literature133Some Individual Works143Traditional and Modern Russian Literature1645Iconic Russia171Folk Creativity171The Iconic World175Art and Architecture in Rus183Icons and the 'Modern Movement'197Symbolic Landscapes208Conclusion227Select Bibliography231Chronological Table to 1917239Index245
\ From the Publisher"Milner-Gulland's strength lies in his ability to write with equal facility and conviction about literature and the visual arts, about the fourteenth or the twentieth century, a strength underpinned by a reluctance to compartmentalize the arts with conventional historical periodization ... I can think of few better books for opening doors into a fascinating but often misunderstood world." Seer\ \
