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Moscow: “third Rome” or “fourth Jerusalem”?

Source: pixabay.com; Author: jackmac34
16.02.2017

In the 16th century, a Russian monk, Filofej, coined the expression “third Rome” to emphasize the spiritual role assumed by Moscow following the fall of Constantinople (1453) and the marital union between the Grand Prince of Moscow, I

Moscow the Third Rome?

05.10.2016

Maybe Mr Putin visits Mount Athos because he feels it feeds his soul, guiding him in a way that is not necessarily obvious to an increasingly lost western society.