As the title suggests, make Russia as an Eastern Orthodox Theocracy, rather than turned into OTL Soviet Union.
The POD is from 1900s.
The POD is from 1900s.
No 1917 events. Russia stays a monarchy, with varying degrees of democratic input, generally at peace with its neighbours, but with its internal politics easily manipulated by outside forces, sometimes violently.
And if that sounds like OTL Iran, that's intentional. Some time in the mid-to-late 20th Century, the Czars and their foreign backers are ousted, in favour of an eloquent but somewhat unstable old writer who flies in from exile in Vermont to take power.
(Okay, so THAT guy probably wouldn't exist in a non-Communist timeline, and anyway wouldn't qualify as a priest as per the definition of a theocracy, but you get the idea.)
The thing about the relationship between Tsarism and the Orthodox church is that the church was long before 1900 subordinated to the Tsarist autocracy. All the leaders of the church worshipped the Tsar as much as they worshipped God.
I'm guessing the guy you're referencing is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The thing about the relationship between Tsarism and the Orthodox church is that the church was long before 1900 subordinated to the Tsarist autocracy. All the leaders of the church worshipped the Tsar as much as they worshipped God.