东正教从988年罗斯受洗直至十月革命之前，都是俄国的国教，它受到封建帝王和统治阶级的扶植，成为官方的意识形态；同时，它又是一种文化现象。据当代学者考据，仅从11-13世纪，在俄罗斯就修建了一万座教堂和200多座修道院。从14世纪开始，俄国的政治中心从基辅迁移至莫斯科。 The Orthodox Church was baptized by Rose from 988 till the October Revolution, and both were the state religion of Russia. It was supported by the feudal emperors and the ruling class and became the official ideology. At the same time, it was a cultural phenomenon. According to contemporary scholars, only 11,000 churches and more than 200 monasteries were built in Russia from the 11th to the 13th centuries. From the fourteenth century, Russia’s political center moved from Kiev to Moscow.