title: The History of Russian Christianity Volume 1: From the Earliest Years Through Tsar Ivan IV
author:  Daniel H. Shubin 
description: From Apostle Andrew to the conclusion of Soviet authority in 1990, Daniel Shubin presents the entire history of Christianity in Russia in a 3-volume series. The events, people and politics that forged the earliest traditions of Russian Christianity are presented objectively and intensively, describing the rise and dominance of the Russian Orthodox Church, the many dissenters and sectarian groups that evolved over the centuries (and their persecution), the presence of Catholicism and the influx of Protestantism and Judaism and other minority religions into Russia. The history covers the higher levels of ecclesiastical activity including the involvement of tsars and princes, as well as saints and serfs, and monks and mystics. This, the first volume, deals with the period from Apostle Andrew to the death of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, just prior to the election of the first Russian Patriarch, a period of almost 1600 years.
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  # A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Isabel Florence Hapgood
  
  
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  * [PREFACE.](servu_split_2.html#1_0_2)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER I. THE ANCIENT PERIOD, FROM THE EARLIEST
  
  
  TIMES TO THE INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY IN 988.
  
  
  * [CHAPTER II. THE ANCIENT PERIOD, FROM THE
  
  
  INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY TO THE TATÁR DOMINION, 988-1224.
  
  
  * [CHAPTER III. SECOND PERIOD, FROM THE TATÁR DOMINION
  
  
  TO THE TIME OF IVÁN THE TERRIBLE, 1224-1330.
  
  
  * [CHAPTER IV. THIRD PERIOD, FROM THE TIME OF IVÁN THE
  
  
  TERRIBLE, 1530, TO THE MIDDLE OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
  
  
  * [CHAPTER V. FOURTH PERIOD, FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE
  
  
  SEVENTEENTH CENTURY TO THE EPOCH OF REFORM UNDER PETER THE GREAT.
  
  
  * [CHAPTER VI. FIFTH PERIOD, THE REIGN OF PETER THE
  
  
  GREAT (1689-1723).
  
  
  * [CHAPTER VII. SIXTH PERIOD, THE REIGN OF KATHERINE
  
  
  II. (1762-1796).
  
  
  * [CHAPTER VIII. SEVENTH PERIOD, FRO