Tamara Eidelman. (№ 424613)

[...] it is even funnier (or sadder) to use the words Russian and Orthodox as synonyms. Thus, not only I am a sinner, but also thousands of Old Believers, and thousands of non-believers are left behind... The Russian government at the end of the XIX century, at the time of Alexander III, so glorified now, emphasized with all its might that the Russian Empire was Orthodox, but this did not lead to anything good, but gave rise to an understandable anger of thousands and thousands of subjects of the Russian tsar, who were explained that they were second-class people.