In V.I. Dahl’s dictionary, the word fornication has a double meaning; firstly, it is a deviation from the straight path, and secondly, something related to illegal cohabitation, adultery. The book gives a broad retrospective of fornication in our Fatherland: from the times of Rurik to our own. These are testimonies of contemporaries, searches by historians, responses from writers, excerpts from works of art. Is fornication really ineradicable in Rus'?..

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