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During the Mongol domination the church held the Russian people together and preserved Russian customs.
在蒙古占領期間，教堂將俄國人民團結在一起，保留了俄國的風俗。
Yet the mass of Russian peasants did not fully embrace the practice of Orthodoxy until roughly 1400.
但是俄國農民這個大群體就沒有充分實行正教，一直延續到1400年。
By this time Orthodoxy had taken a uniquely Russian character.
這時正教在俄國占有獨特地位。
In 1453, the Byzantine Empire fell once and for all, leaving Russia as the most important Orthodox country in the world.
1453年，拜占庭帝國衰落，使俄國成為世界上最重要的政教國家。
That was a great source of pride and Russia started thinking of itself as the Third Rome.
這自豪感來源于俄羅斯開始認為自己是第三個羅馬。
Four, rule of law.
第四，法規。
Kiev and Russ had its own great lawgiver in Yaroslavl The Wise who set forth the Ruskaya Pravda.
基輔和俄羅斯都在雅羅斯拉夫一世時期有法律制定者制定了雅羅斯拉夫法典。
Yet even this was far from an all-encompassing code of laws.
但是這個并不是一個覆蓋方方面面的法律。
Rather like Rome's code of 12 tables the Ruskaya Pravda suggested penalties for a wide range of actions.
不像十二銅表法法典對很多行為都規定了相應的刑罰。
But again like the 12 tables the justices upheld was fundamentally unequal.
就像十二銅表法其正義在根本上是不公平的。
In both cases poorer individuals possessed less status therefore they were penalized more heavily than their wealthier nobler counterparts.
在這兩種情況下，越貧窮的人地位越低，因此他們受到的刑罰比更有錢的貴族更嚴重。
In any event throughout the Russ principalities everything belonged to the Prince.
任何情況下，俄羅斯的公國任何東西都屬于王公
And the people who lived there were not citizens but subjects.
住在那的人民不是市民而是物品。
This did not change until the Bolshevik October Revolution of 1917.
這種情況到布爾什維克1917年十月革命才得到改變。
And after that it only got worse.
從那以后就越來越糟糕。
