Study A. In. Petrov "From paganism to Holy Russia . Novgorod Injuries (to the study of the ancient Russian veche way) "is devoted to the most important problem of the history of the Russian Middle Ages - the veche . Studying "Novgorod animosities" (social, mainly socio-political conflicts in Novgorod XI - the first half of the XV century . The author recreates the picture of the functioning of the ancient Russian veche way against the general background of the struggle of Christianity and paganism, Christian and pagan orders and mores. The book shows how, despite the considerable power of elements of pagan consciousness and pagan customs, the state system was gradually overcome and improved while simultaneously Christianizing social life. The evolution of vechev Novgorod was an evolution of the state, generally successfully coping with internal problems and, at least, until the middle of the XV century. which has not exhausted its historical resources. The religious and cultural context of the processes under study is essentially another and no less important topic of work. The author believes that without the political and moral values reinterpreted by Christianity, genetically related to the ancient Russian way of life, Holy Russia is also unthinkable, as without the inextinguishable lamps of the Northern Thebaid.