Peterburgian Vedism or Peterburgian Rodnovery, or more broadly Russian Vedism and Slavic Vedism, is one of the earliest branches of Rodnovery and one of the most important schools of thought within it
Russian priests of the Skhoron ezh Sloven organisation of Peterburgian Vedism. The founder of the organisation Vladimir Golyakov (1968–2021) is the one holding the hammer.
Prince Gleb of Novgorod killing the volkhv (priest) in 1071, as illustrated in the Radziwiłł Chronicle. The Peterburgian Vedic organisation Skhoron ezh Sloven traces its origins to this historical event.
Shrine of Svarog, the supreme God in its visible form, in Bitsa Park, Moscow
Ritual element at a Rodnover temple located in the area of Lysaya Gora in the Bitsa Park, Moscow. The four wolf-headed totems identify the temple as belonging to the Peterburgian Vedic tradition.
Ynglism, institutionally the Ancient Russian Ynglist Church of the Orthodox Old Believers–Ynglings, is a white nationalist branch of Slavic paganism formally established in 1992 by Aleksandr Yuryevich
Peterburgian Vedism
…in its first stages, early Peterburgian Vedists drew inspiration from Russian-Ukrainian Ivanovism, and established relations with Vseyasvetniks and Ynglists, while the use of the term "Vedism" to refer to Rodnovery goes back to Yury Petrovich Mirolyubov, the writer or discoverer of the Book of Veles…
The headquarters of the Ynglist Church in Omsk, in 2016, including the residence of Aleksandr Khinevich in the foreground and the Temple of the Wisdom of Perun (Капище Веды Перуна) in the background
Three of the canonical Slavo-Aryan Vedas, the Book of Light, two copies of Ynglism, and the Source of Life, plus the non-canonical Slavic Worldview
Sword in brushwood prepared for worshipping Perun by Ynglists in Omsk; note the inscription in Ynglist runes on the sword's crossguard. According to the scholar Richard Foltz, the ritual of swords planted in piles of stones or brushwood has Scythian origins, and honoured the martial deity, and even the British Arthurian legend of the sword in the stone is an echo of this cult, which was brought to Britain by Alan (i.e. "Aryan" through a consonant shift; the name of
Alatyr Stone, by the Russian artist Lola V. Lonli, 2000