Excerpt from The Divine Liturgy of the Holy Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Graeco-Russian Church The conversion of Russia to Christianity is wholly attributable to the Greek Church. About the middle of the ninth century, when Photius was Patriarch of Constantinople, the seeds of Christianity were first sown in Russia. In the year 910 a Christian Church existed at Kieff, although it had little hold upon the people of the country, who were steeped in Paganism. The establishment of the Church of Russia really dates from the year 992, when Prince Vladimir and his people accepted Christianity. Paganism was abolished. Perun, the God of Thunder, the chief of the Russian idols, was overthrown. The Court and the Boyars, and the great multitude of the people, flocked to the rivers, and in them received as a nation baptism from the Greek Bishops and Priests. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."