>have a good chunk of my family born in Austria in the 1800s
>they all spoke Russian and were Orthodox
So what were they really?
>they all spoke Russian and were Orthodox
So what were they really?
>>213504541 (OP)
Most likely orthodox Rusyns. That was the minority (most were Greek Catholic) but there was a movement like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galician_Russophilia
and these people switched from Greek Catholicism to Russian Orthodoxy, which usually entailed actual cultural russification
Most likely orthodox Rusyns. That was the minority (most were Greek Catholic) but there was a movement like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galician_Russophilia
and these people switched from Greek Catholicism to Russian Orthodoxy, which usually entailed actual cultural russification