In recent years, it has become fashionable, at least for those who take word of Western mainstream media as gospel, to see Russia as the root of global strife. Yet Russians themselves, steeped in their nation’s complex history, are more inclined to trace their current challenges to a legacy of turmoil stretching back centuries. This tumult is vividly captured in Andrei Tarkovsky’s *Andrei Rublev*, a 1966 Soviet biop…







