Oponskoye Kingdom

In Russian folklore the Oponskoye Kingdom (Russian: Опонское/опоньское царство, romanized: Oponskoye/opon'skoe tsarstvo, supposed to mean Yaponskoye tsarstvo, or "kingdom of Japan"), or as some English-language sources have it, Kingdom of Opona, is a mythical kingdom, envisioned by Russian peasants as lying at the edge of the flat earth. Here, they believed, the peasants lived happy lives undisturbed by the state or the gentry, under a "White Tsar" who ruled truly and justly. Similar paradise places also existed in legend, such as the Golden Land the Land of Chud and Belovodye ("Land of White Water").

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