Which statement describes a way in which russia differed from western europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? a. russian nobles embraced the enlightenment long before their western counterparts did. b. russia was the first country in europe to establish a constitutional monarchy. c. most russians of all classes were orthodox christians, not catholics or protestants. d. russian peasants gained land rights and personal freedom before these reforms reached western europe.

The correct answer is C) Most Russians of all classes were Orthodox Christians, not Catholics or Protestants. It is now the dominant religion of Russia with forty-one percent of the population stated as being Orthodox Christian. Although there are some minorities of Protestants and Catholics in Russia, there was no big divide or religious wars and prosecutions as there were in other Western European countries, such as England and France. Orthodox Christianity is often used still now by the government and it is a uniting factor in Russia.