Russian Orthodox Church

AA 's nationality, Russian, underwent several conceptual transformations during her lifetiime. Her family's secure position in the landowning class became a liability to her after the Revolution. She was a proponent of free love, whose...

EJ was born an Englishwoman, and presumably white. In maturity she was a member of the Church of England (with a low opinion both of the Russian Orthodox and of the Roman Catholic Churches )...

The primacy of Christianity, and especially the Roman Catholic faith, underpins the novel's morality. As a child Princess Charlotte has been inoculated against faith, but she later rebels against this training. She is instructed in...

EJ is quite open about judging the Russians to be inferior in civilization to the English: their great physical strength and endurance (which in women includes an ability to give birth casually, without special care...