Russia and the papacy. 1453-1825. Winter E.

We are transferred to the Roman curia, then to the chambers of the Russian kings, we fall into Poland, in which the papacy sees the avant -garde in the advancement of Catholicism to the east, to Belarus and to Ukraine, where there is a struggle for the souls of the local population between Catholic and Orthodox clergy, In Vienna and Paris, where they are closely monitoring what is happening, we witness the violent activity in Russia of the Jesuits. And gradually before us, a picture of how for centuries Roman Kuria tried to draw Russia into its orbit, use its human and other resources in exchange for the proposal of “true faith”, to contrast it if not Turkey, then to the Habsburgers, if not to the Habsburgers - then reformation. Not experiencing sympathy for Russian autocracy, the author, however, managed to move away from the euro -centric gaze traditional for Western historiography and tried to look at what was happening, including from the point of view of Russian interests. The translation is made specifically for this publication.