Russia is a land where saints walk

Various states are customary to compare each other in economic, financial, social indicators. And if you take a spiritual criterion for assessment? Where did you show itself the most saints? In this regard, no one could compare with Russia, not a single country of the world even lay close to it. On the whole historical path of our people, numerous saints directly or indirectly participated in the most important events. Or even themselves were prominent historical figures. And such features formed a Russian national character, psychology. To a large extent determined the course of our past - but also the present, up to the current confrontation with the West.
About all this is told by the new book of the famous writer-historian Valery Shambarova