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6: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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Are You Coming Into a Language?

The two great leaders of Rus, if you just read like a textbook about early Rus, are going to be Volodomir and Yauroslav. A conversion is a kind of sideways move. You don't really stop being a pagan when you become a Christian. It's not that your whole past disappears. It's that you're moving into something which already exists and brings with it certain features. In this case, it brings with it priests. It brings with it another language or church Slavonic. The story could be all Nordic history by the time we get to Lithuania.

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