Russia: Climbing. From Princess Olga to Peter the Great

The millennial Russian civilization turned out to be surprisingly resistant to international and domestic political shocks. The reason is that the Orthodox paradigm of statehood was based on Russian statehood with its respect for other religious beliefs and customs, the ability of the archpastors to conduct dialogue with representatives of other faiths in the name of a common goal. She stood before the onslaught of the "Posov-people", thanks to Alexander Nevsky, survived the crafty rule of Boris Godunov, who gave rise to the Great Time, reflected the aggression of Poland and Sweden to rise, like a phoenix from the ash, after the reign of the Romanovs, and spiritually became stronger thanks to the patriarchs of Filaret and Nikon. The author considers the history of the transformation of Russia from the tiny principality of St. Olga to the Russian Empire of Peter the Great from the perspective of a systemic cyvilization methodology