Russian Orthodoxy Under The Old Regime

Download or read book Russian Orthodoxy Under the Old Regime written by Robert Lewis Nichols and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian Orthodoxy under the Old Regime was first published in 1978. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In this book, which is especially suitable for course use, eleven scholars examine one of the most important institutions of imperial Russia, the Orthodox church in the two centuries before the Russian revolution. The material is arranged in two sections, the first devoted to Orthodoxy's role in Russian social and cultural life and the second dealing with the church's relationship to the tsarist regime.