Russian Christianity

This chapter contains section titled: Christianity in Kievan Rus: Ninth to Early Fourteenth CenturiesThe Church of Moscow to the Middle of the Fifteenth CenturyThe Period of Self-Proclaimed Muscovite Autocephaly (1441–1589)Two Strategies for the Muscovite Church: the Josephites and the Non-PossessorsCanon Law for the Third Rome: the Reform Programme of the JosephitesA Counter-Reform Programme of the Non-PossessorsThe Non-Possessors’ Programme as the Political Opposition: Prince Andrew KurbskijThe Patriarchate of Moscow: Establishment, Fall, and Reconstruction (1589–1633)The Great Schism (Raskol) and the Old BelieversStart of the Great Schism (Raskol)The Reforms of Peter I and the Synodal Period of the State Church (1700–1917)The Nineteenth Century: Major TrendsCollapse of the State Church in 1917 and its ConsequencesReferences and further readingChristianity in Kievan Rus: Ninth to Early Fourteenth CenturiesThe Church of Moscow to the Middle of the Fifteenth CenturyThe Period of Self-Proclaimed Muscovite Autocephaly (1441–1589)Two Strategies for the Muscovite Church: the Josephites and the Non-PossessorsCanon Law for the Third Rome: the Reform Programme of the JosephitesA Counter-Reform Programme of the Non-PossessorsThe Non-Possessors’ Programme as the Political Opposition: Prince Andrew KurbskijThe Patriarchate of Moscow: Establishment, Fall, and Reconstruction (1589–1633)The Great Schism (Raskol) and the Old BelieversStart of the Great Schism (Raskol)The Reforms of Peter I and the Synodal Period of the State Church (1700–1917)The Nineteenth Century: Major TrendsCollapse of the State Church in 1917 and its ConsequencesReferences and further reading