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The Third Rome (A new power, the third power of Christianity)
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10. The Third Rome
(1) Perhaps, the fall of Constantinople to the Muslims in 1453 must have seemed like the end of the world to Eastern Christians.
(2) A new power, the third power of Christianity had risen; Russian Orthodoxy, along with the Russia's conversion to Orthodoxy in the late 10th century and to become an important Christian power until 1237, when it was invaded by the Mongolian armies of Genghis Kahn, also known as the Tartars.
(3) When the power of Tartars had been waning in 14th century, Russia was a free nation again, of which new capital was Moscow.
(4) At last, Rome had fallen and had been replaced by Constantinople, the Second Rome; now that too had been found unworthy. Just as Charlemagns in the West had once styled himself 'the New Roman emperor', so now the rulers of Russia claimed to inherit the temporal and spiritual power of the Byzantine emperor.
(5) In 1472 the Russian king Ivan the Great legitimized this claim by marrying the niece of the last Byzantine emperor.
(6) In 1547 his successor, Ivan IV, became the first to call himself Czar - a corruption of 'Caesar'. The double-headed eagle was symbol of Russia like the symbol of Rome before.
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