I’ve written enough already about Ásatrú in Scandinavia and Romuva in Lithuania, but I haven’t yet mentioned the pagan faith of the ancient Slavic people of Russia. As with most indigenous pagan religions, Russian heathenism was similar to that of its closest neighbors. Even the names of important gods, such as Perun (the Baltic/Slavic version of Thor, the thunder god) are similar to those of the Baltic, where Perun is called Perkūnas.

Before Russia was forced into accepting Christianity it had a major heathen religion. But even after official conversion to Christianity in 988, much of Kievan Russia retained pagan beliefs. Unlike in other countries, there was no large-scale push to Christianize the population as quickly as possible.

While pagan temples in larger cities ceased to exist quite early, in the countryside non-Christian sacred spaces continued to exist for centuries. Some aspects of pre-Christian Russian religion, such as the belief in various nature spirits, never really disappeared completely.

There is virtually almost no information on the Internet in English about Slavic paganism. After quite an intense search I could find only few websites. Ofcourse, if you compare them with almost any Russian website, you can easily see that there is only a very, very small amount of information and facts. But enough, I hope, for anyone interested in Slavic Paganism.