Draft:Nikita Tolstoy

Nikita Tolstoy is a Russian folklorist who studies Folk Orthodoxy.

Толстой,_Никита_Ильич

Folklorist Nikita Tolstoy, noting the primitivism of dual faith, proposed the term troeverie ("triple faith"). The third component of the worldview of the Russian Middle Ages was the folk, "non-canonical" culture of Byzantium, the Balkans and Europe, which came to Russia with Christianity in the form of skomorokhs, Foolishness for Christ, and koliada. It has also been applied to the mixture of Russian folk beliefs with those of other cultures such as Chinese folk religion.