Holy Rus or Holy Russia (russian: Святая Русь, Svyatáya Rusʹ) - the Kingdom of Heaven, the eternal czardom of God in the Heaven and on the Earth, is an important religious and philosophical concept which appeared and developed from the 8th to the 21st centuries by people in

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and

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History

This religious concept developed through the ages in close connection with Orthodox Russian Christianity, which cannot be understood completely without the idea of Holy Rus. The idea of Holy Rus can be explained as the idea of Kingdom of Heaven well-known to every Christian around the world, but developed in the realities of society of Central Eurasia under the strong influence of ancient East Slavic Orthodox Christian culture. The idea made great impact on the emergence and development of many states and societies in East Europe and Central Eurasia through the centuries: the ancient principality of Rus (the

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), the Russian principalities in the state structure of

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, Empire of the

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, the Russian Czardom and

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of the 16th to 20th centuries and even on the emergence and development of the Soviet Union which gave birth to the modern

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and

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ian republics:

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"Holy Russia": A Study in the History of an Idea

History

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