ABSTRACT
Five images of Russia emerge from different periods of Russian history. There is Kievan Rus, Russia under the Tatar yoke, Muscovite, Petrine, and Soviet Russia. And a completely new Russia might still follow. Russia’s development has always been catastrophic. The Moscow period was by far the worst, of the most stifling Asiatic Und, and due to some strange misunderstanding it became most idealised by the freedom-loving Slavophiles.
