On the slogan "Moscow - III Rome" - the analytical portal Polit.ru
Olga Gurova , Vitaly Nayshul 1. More than 500 years ago, on May 29, 1453, under the onslaught of Turkish-Sosmans, the capital of Byzantium, Constantinople, is the center of the then Orthodox world. For Russia, lost in the northern forests of the cultural province of the Orthodox world, which suddenly became the main Orthodox state of the world, a difficult time of self -identification has come. The size of the then Russian cultural disaster is difficult for us to imagine.