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This research examines the Russian dual faith from the Christian view of the world and the mythological view of Nature incarnated in Mikhail Nesterov’s paintings, one of the famous Avramtsevo painters, who made an influence on the history of the Russian fine arts. This study also seeks for a better understanding by briefly introducing the characteristics of the ancient Slavic mythology and its major gods and deities in the Slavic pantheon. The coexistence of the Christian view of the world and the pantheistic view of Nature keeps revealing its special features in the painter’s works. The activities in Avrantsevo art colony, a place without any constraints of formality and content, represent not only the Christian view of the world, but also the supernatural paganistic view of the world. That is, it is worthy of more than passing attention in that Avramtsevo paintings reflect the dual faith in Russia.