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>Louis XIV as Apollo, styled as Julius Caesar.
>Apollo was the god of the imperial cult
>Octavian's family were Mars worshippers, but Octavian established Apollo as the god of his personal cult, which shaped the imperial cult as a whole
>prior to this, Apollo had been a mainly Greek god

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJWY2Zj4MnA&list=RDsJWY2Zj4MnA&start_radio=1

Yes a lot of crypto pagans existed among European and Russian nobility, I've met some myself.

Dracula, written by Bram 'Abraham' Stoker, is a story about Christians slaughtering a European aristocrat who 'worships demons'.