Moscow has liked to call itself the Third Rome for centuries and to fulfil such an ambition everything has to be done. Building an empire is one thing, rebuilding it is another. The first is driven by an unrestrained apetite for domination, the other by necessity in a time of need. The rulers of the Kremlin also want to resemble their Roman and Byzantian models with regard to their power over the souls of the Russians and other subjugated nations. The batyushkas love spirituality and religion, either an inherited one, like the Romanovs, or a newly found one, like Ulyanov, or a form further reformed and confirmed by a non-graduate adept of the priesthood such as Stalin. The religious habits