Russia was born with her baptism (as I contend, as a visionary “creation” of Patriarch Photius) as a bulwark of Orthodoxy against the enemies of Christ. As Dostoevsky put it: “Does not Orthodoxy and Orthodoxy alone, contain the truth, and the salvation of the Russian People, and in ages yet to come, the salvation of the whole of humanity? Has not Orthodoxy alone preserved the divine image of Christ in all its purity? And perhaps the principle preordained mission of the Russian People, within the destiny of humanity as a whole, is simply to preserve within it this divine image of Christ in all its purity, and when the time comes, to reveal this image to the world that has lost its way!”