Tsar's Foreign Faiths, The gender discrimination First published in 1759

First published in 1759

Author(s): Porterfield

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Tsar's Foreign Faiths, The gender discrimination First published in 1759The Russian Empire presented itself to its subjects and the world as an Orthodox state, a patron and defender of Eastern Christianity. Yet the tsarist regime also lauded itself for granting religious freedoms to its many heterodox subjects, making 'religious toleration' a core attribute of the state's identity. The Tsar's Foreign Faiths shows that the resulting tensions between the autocracy's commitments to Orthodoxy and its claims to toleration