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that believes in faith feeling as opposed to reason,
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and has a particular, and sometimes peculiar,
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idea of morality shaped by the traditions of Mother Russia.
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He and his wife look back to this sort of imaginary time
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before Peter the Great,
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when the true Russia did not look westward at all,
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and was not tempted by these foreign imports.
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He idealized that time of piety,
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the unity between the czar and his people, the narod.
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In 1902, he wrote a letter to Alexandra
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when he was on tour.
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He said, "We passed through large villages