Rating: 10|Votes: 3
During work along the right bank of the Tiber this summer, the archaeological group Cooperativa Archeologia uncovered what was first thought to be a villa, but later considered to be a church.
Peter Davydov, William Brumfield
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 26
“I firmly believe that familiarity with Prokudin-Gorsky’s photographs (not just a superficial glance) would be a great help to all who want to get to know Russia at least a little better and more sincerely—better than television, blogs, and newspapers. Bear in mind that nostalgia for the “good old days” should motivate us to work for the good of Russia and pray for it instead of plunging us into deep despondency.”
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 13
The community had a reader, a choir director, and an icon-painter. It was the largest Orthodox parish of the time in Germany.
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 15
1988 was a turning point in the societal perception of the Russian Orthodox Church and its role in the history of Russia. The celebrations dedicated to the 1,000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus’ became a real triumph for the Russian Orthodox Church, which the faithful themselves could not have imagined.
Protodeacon Vladimir Vasilik
Rating: 9|Votes: 61
The way concentration camp prisoners died was horrific. Some died of famine, backbreaking labor, and epidemics. Some were executed by shooting, but the majority of them were killed with cold steel: The Ustase would cut their throats with special knives (“Serb-cutters”), fracture their skulls with hammers, cut off their hands, legs, fingers, ears, lips, put out their eyes, hack off women’s breasts.
Elena Balashova
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 58
On September 17, 1918, a three-man presidium of the Department for Combating Counter-Revolution sentenced Archpriest Neophyte to death. The 72-year-old priest was shot and buried beyond the fence of the Kalitnikovskoe Cemetery on the same day.
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 29
A question arises: “Is it possible through crime, through blood, through violence, and through the destruction of holy sites to build a happy life?”
Chris Mitchell
Rating: 5,8|Votes: 9
The Bible says this is the place where Joshua parceled out the Promised Land to the 12 tribes of Israel. It's also where the Tabernacle of the Lord stood for more than 300 years.
Ryan Hunter
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 41
The growing popular veneration of the Imperial Family today is also undoubtedly part of something else, a reality that transcends a purely earthly political dimension.
Andrei Manovtsev
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 25
But for the indifference to the tsar in the hearts of our ancestors 100 years ago, the Royal Family would not have been martyred. But for the indifference to the holy emperor in the hearts of our contemporaries today, the poisonous movie “Mathilde” would not have been released.
Rating: 8,4|Votes: 73
We present these rare photographs of the Royal Family dated between 1917 and 1915, from six family albums that were taken out of Russia by the Empress’s lady-in-waiting, Anna Vyrobova.
Archpriest Andrei Tkachev
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 28
The Tsar rises above the age-old lies, appearing before our contemporaries in his human greatness and martyric crown. The question is not in the restoration of the monarchy, but first in the awareness of our past and the improvement of the present.
Alfred Kentigern Siewers
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 11
On that date a hundred years ago, the last tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, his wife the tsarina Alexandra, their five children and four retainers, were ushered into a basement in the city of Yekaterinburg in the early hours of the morning, for an execution that would mark a turning point in history.
Alexander Khrulev
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 10
The author recalled the famine of 1839-1841, when no peasants from the neighboring village that belonged to another landowner went hungry. “Almost all the local lords of manors preferred to suffer privations and felt it their duty to provide for their own peasants."
Count George Alexandrovich Sheremetev
Rating: 10|Votes: 32
His life as well as those of his close relatives were full of persecutions and sorrows, wanderings across three continents and foreign countries, among people of various ethnic origins and religious traditions.
David Keys
Rating: 8|Votes: 5
Lavishly illustrated 1,200-year-old copy of Gospels previously thought to have been thought to have been created as one book
Olga Rozhneva
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 20
Here is the story of Vladyka John’s spiritual son and alter server—Benjamin Vasilievich Vorobiev.
Olga Rozhneva, Nicholai Lukianov
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 37
Below we offer our readers the story of Nicholai Andreevich Lukianov, an altar server of St. John, who speaks about his family and how he met the holy hierarch.
Rating: 10|Votes: 15
The horrifying whirlwind of change blew her family from Harbin, China, to Tianjin, then Hong Kong, then further: to Brazil and finally California. In several nations, three continents, and everywhere was the bitter bread of exile, foreign languages and traditions, alien religions.
Archimandrite Avraamy (Kuyava), Valentina Serikova
Rating: 10|Votes: 22
Fr. Avraamy saw the generation of the Kiev Caves elders who had been called to monastic life before the Revolution and who preserved the living tradition of spiritual continuity from ancient times. He absorbed their spirit, their zeal for God, their strength of faith, simplicity and Christian love.
