El cristianismo ortodoxo en las letras eslavas

Abstract

Greek Orthodox Christianity fulfilled, through the Church, a fundamental role in the cultural and state conformations of the different Slavic countries. In the Russian case, moreover, the drift from the messianic idea of ​​the "Third Rome" paid for both the consolidation of an autocratic state and the imperialist impetus, even if this can also be read as an aspiration to pan-humanity. In the field of letters, a whole gallery of historically anchored testimonies can be collected, directly linked to this idea, and that dramatize the historical tensions with central European countries.