Pagan Rus'... Was there really a harmonious, highly moral religion based on an integral worldview in Rus' before Christianity? Yu. V. Mizun and Yu. G. Mizun, exploring the pre-Christian history of our ancestors, based on an analysis of the Russian Vedas and the Book of Veles, came to the conclusion that thousands of years before the founding of Kyiv and baptism, Rus' was Orthodox, the Slavs were monotheists, believed in One God, the Mother of God and the Son of God. Rule—where the name “Orthodoxy” comes from—is the Heavenly Mother, the patroness of Russia. Thus, the authors claim, Russian Vedism is the oldest monotheistic faith, which has reached us only in the form of oral traditions and sacred texts. “We had a wonderful past that any nation can envy,” the authors prove.