The Empress was extremely religious, and had at the same time the profoundest conviction that the duty and use of the Church was to support and protect the autocracy. She could in one breath mingle devout sentiments with a passionate resentment of the Holy Synod for its attacks on Rasputia, which she described as treachery, since they were indirectly an attack on herself and the Tsar. She thought the Church needed "soul, less concerned with good and evil
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