The Christianization of Kievan Rus' was a long and complicated process that took place in several stages. In 867, Patriarch Photius of Constantinople told other Christian patriarchs that the Rus' peop
The Baptism of Rus' (Klavdiy Lebedev c. 1900)
Baptism of the first Rus, illustrated in the 14th century Manasses Chronicle.
The baptism of St. Princess Olga in Constantinople, a miniature from the Radziwiłł Chronicle
The Ostromir Gospels, written in Church Slavonic, one of the first dated East Slavic books.
Slavic paganism
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Slavic paganism, also known as Slavic polytheism, encompasses the historical pre-Christian religious beliefs, mythologies, and ritual practices of the Slavic peoples before their gradual Christianizat
Christianization of Kievan Rus'
…no lasting consequences, since the Russian Primary Chronicle and other Slavonic sources describe the tenth-century Rus' as still firmly entrenched in Slavic paganism. The traditional view, as recorded in the Russian Primary Chronicle, is that the definitive Christianization of Kievan Rus' dates happened c. 988 (the…
A priest of Svantevit depicted on a stone from Arkona, now in the church of Altenkirchen, Rügen.
"The Celebration of Svantovit in Rujana: When Gods Are at War, Art is the Salvation" (Slavnost Svantovítova: Když jsou bohové ve válce, pak je umění spásou)—Alphonse Mucha, 1912. Pagan-themed painting part of The Slav Epic.
The Zbruch Idol on display at the Krakow Archaeological Museum
Slavs serving their Gods, a 19th-century woodcut