Russia. The culture of the ethnic Russian people has a long tradition of achievement in many fields, especially when it comes to literature, folk dancing, philosophy, classical music, traditional folk music, ballet, architecture, painting, cinema, animation and politics, which all have had considerable influence on world culture.
Russia also has a rich material culture and a tradition in technology. Russian culture grew from that of the East Slavs, with their pagan beliefs and specific way of life in the wooded, steppe and forest-steppe areas of Eastern Europe and Eurasia.
Early Russian culture and Slavic people in Russia were much influenced by nomadic Turkic people and tribes of Iranian origin through intense cultural contacts in the Russian steppe and strongly by Finno-Ugric, Balts and Scandinavians through the Russian North, as well as by the people of the Byzantine Empire with which Old Russia maintained strong cultural links. In the late 1st millennium AD the Nordic sea culture of the Varangians and in the middle of the second millennium the nomadic people of the Mongol Empire also influenced the Russian culture.
Early Slavic tribes in European Russia were much shaped by the fusion of Nordic-European and Oriental-Asian cultures which formed Russian identity in the Volga region and in the states of Rus' Khaganate and Kievan Rus '. Orthodox Christian missionaries began arriving fro
Russia also has a rich material culture and a tradition in technology. Russian culture grew from that of the East Slavs, with their pagan beliefs and specific way of life in the wooded, steppe and forest-steppe areas of Eastern Europe and Eurasia.
Early Russian culture and Slavic people in Russia were much influenced by nomadic Turkic people and tribes of Iranian origin through intense cultural contacts in the Russian steppe and strongly by Finno-Ugric, Balts and Scandinavians through the Russian North, as well as by the people of the Byzantine Empire with which Old Russia maintained strong cultural links. In the late 1st millennium AD the Nordic sea culture of the Varangians and in the middle of the second millennium the nomadic people of the Mongol Empire also influenced the Russian culture.
Early Slavic tribes in European Russia were much shaped by the fusion of Nordic-European and Oriental-Asian cultures which formed Russian identity in the Volga region and in the states of Rus' Khaganate and Kievan Rus '. Orthodox Christian missionaries began arriving fro
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