Guardian.

126

Московский Центр Карнеги [Carnegie Moscow Center], «Монархизм в современной России» [Monarchism in Modern Russia].

127

Pavel Zarifullin, The New Scythians. Unpublished English translation, supplied in digital form by the author.

128

My translation from Александр Асов [Alexander Asov], Велесова книга [The Book of Veles], 235.

129

As recounted by Александр Асов [Alexander Asov] in The Book of Veles, 371 ff.

130

My translation from Александр Асов [Alexander Asov], Велесова книга [The Book of Veles], 235.

131

See the article «Chariot of the Sun God» available on the Hare Krishna Temple Portal website.

132

My translation from the Russian version in Асов [Asov], 35.

133

My translation from the Russian version in Асов [Asov], 39.

134

My translation from the Russian version in Асов [Asov], 57.

135

See Anatole Klyosov’s website for a list of his publications and interviews.

136

Тарянец, Валентинь? [Taranets, Valentin] Велесова книга [Book of Veles] (in Ukrainian language).

137

Шнирельман, Виктор [Schnirelman, Victor]. Русское язычество [Russian Paganism], 13–14.

138

Rilke, Russische Kunst, 496.

139

See Kleinhempel, «Rilke’s Translation of “The Slovo o Polku Igoreva” [“The Song of Igor’s Campaign”]», 3–32.

140

Unpublished in English. Text supplied by the author.

141

See the video, «SMITE – God Lore Reveal – Chernobog, Lord of Darkness», Available on YouTube. Consulted May 19, 2020.

142

Alexinsky, «Slavonic Mythology», 294.

143

Alexinsky, «Slavonic Mythology», 297.

144

Dixon-Kennedy, Encyclopedia of Russian and Slavic Myth and Legend, 194, 213–215.

145

Fairbairn, Eastern Orthodoxy through Western Eyes, 136.

146

Fairbairn, Eastern Orthodoxy, 102.

147

Personal communication with the author, May 31, 2021.

148

For an account of the pagan traditions of the Mari, see Ulrike Kahrs, «Die weißen, reinen Mari», 150–151.

149

Kahrs, «Die weißen, reinen Mari», 150–151.

150

Overland and Berg-Nordlie, Bridging Divides, 17, 113.

151

Znamenski, The Beauty of the Primitive, viii.

152

Eliade, Shamanism, 69.

153

Eliade, Shamanism, 69.

154

Quoted in Znamenski, Shamanism in Siberia, 12.

155

Quoted in Znamenski, Shamanism in Siberia, 21–28.

156

Bashkirov, «Gabyshev», 253–268.

157

Quijda et al., «Finding ‘Their Own’» 258–272.

158

The website of the St. Xenia Orthodox Church, Methuen, Massachusetts, USA.

159

Berdyaev, The Russian Idea, 2–3.

160

For a modern digital edition see Zoryan Dol^ga Chodakowski O Slawianszczyznieprzed Chrzescijanstwem. Warsaw: Armoryka, 2014.

161

Шнирельман, [Schnirelman], Русское язычество [Russian Paganism].

162

Quoted in Лапенков [Lapenkov], История нетрадиционной ориентации, [History of Non-Traditional Orientation], 98.

163

Ribakov, Yazichestvo drevnich slavyan [The Paganism of the Ancient Slavs], 1.

164

Асов [Asov], Velikye taini Rusi [Great Secrets of Russia], 1.

165

Асов [Asov], Pero Gamayuna [The Gamayun Feather], 1.

166

Родослав, Смагослав, and Рудияр [Rodoslav, Smagoslav, and Rudiyar], «Московская Славянская Языческая Община» [Moscow Slavic Pagan Community].

167

Slavya, «Circle of Pagan Tradition».

168

Veleslav, quoted in Велес Круг [Veles Circle], neo-pagan network, Interview with Veleslav, leader of the group Rodolubye. Published in the online journal Велес Круг, undated.

169

Зданович [Zdanovich, 1995.

170

Зданович [Zdanovich, 1995.

171

Shnirelman, «Archaeology and Ethnic Politics».

172

See Internet postings for Festival of Positive Creation.

173

Marc Bennetts, «Russia has more faith healers than doctors, and many millions believe their troubles can be put right by sorcery», Available at the Times UK website.

174

Kourenoff, Russian Folk Medicine, 17–19.

175

Iarskaia-Smirnova and Romanov, «Culture Matters», 141–154.

176

Kourennoff, Russian Folk Medicine, 39.

177

Kourennoff, Russian Folk Medicine, 266–267.

178

Martin Saxer, «Tibetan Medicine and Russian Modernities», 57 ff.

179

Kharitonova, «Folk and traditional medicine», Online article, no pagination.

180

Kharitonova, «Folk and traditional medicine», Online article, no pagination.

181

Berdyaev, The Russian Idea, 3.

182

Agapkina and Torokova, quoted in Pepel, «Chronicles of Russian Sexual Culture» [Khroniki russkoi sexualnoi kultury].

183

Olearius, The Voyages and Travels of the Ambassadors, 61.

184

Шестаков [Shestakov], Русский Эрос [Russian Eros], 7.

185

Solovyov, The Meaning of Love.

186

Solovyov, The Meaning of Love, 91.

187

Posted on the Russian philosophical website Runivers.

188

Noyce, «Sophia and the Russian Mystical Tradition» 15.

189

Noyce, «Sophia and the Russian Mysterical Tradition», 17.

190

Klevantseva, «Zinaida Hippius».

191

Klevantseva, «Zinaida Hippius».

192

Knyazev, «Russia and the