Archpriest Vladimir Vigilyansky, Olesya Nikolaeva
In fact, liberal politicians, writers and journalists acted, without fully realizing it, in the role of instigators of terrorism and participants in the “big lie” project.
Svetlana Rybakova
Praying in front of the icon of the Mother of God, “Quick to Hear”—the one that the Russian hermit had donated to the Netherlands—Fr. Dionysius made a vow: if the Lord would rescue him and give him the opportunity to organize a parish or build a church someday, he would have it dedicated to the Icon of the Mother of God, “Quick to Hear”.
Vadim Prokopenkov
Several episodes of his clairvoyance a few days before the tragedy were also reported. According to eyewitness recollections, on the eve of the battle, Father Anthony told acquaintances: “Why should my things drown in the sea? Take them and keep them.”
Matthew Namee
If you know a little bit about church history, you can probably spot some immediate problems with this text.
The northernmost Orthodox church in America was built in 1992 and consecrated in honor of Saint Herman of Alaska. Last summer, the husband and wife film team, Mikhail and Ekaterina P, spoke with its rector, Father Andrew, about Orthodox traditions and the special nature of serving the Church in Alaska.
The issue of capital punishment in Russia became an argument in demagogic reasoning by opponents of the Russian state system.
Terrorists in their doctrinal worldview statements assured that they fought exclusively with exploiters, but in fact they did not disdain the murders of people from the poorest strata of society—peasants or workers, if they considered themselves monarchists and patriots of Russia.
Gapon, perhaps, did not realize that he had become the main provocateur and instigator of these bloody events, and placed all the blame on Emperor Nicholas II.
The Socialist-Revolutionaries and agents of the RSDLP accompanying the procession were armed and fired at the military. Activists provoked the demonstrators to beat Cossacks and soldiers.
Anastasia Grishunina
This work became a symbol of the victory of the human spirit, a symbol of resistance to fascism in the language of music.
Seraphima Muravyova
The transfer of the capital of the ancient Russian State from Kiev to Vladimir is presented as a passing and insignificant episode. This is a big mistake, because this event is no less important than the establishment of a tsardom, or the rise or fall of an empire.
Olga Sokirkina
A Moscow priest who taught Red Army soldiers during the Civil War was repeatedly persecuted and executed at Butovo firing range in 1937, one of thousands of clergy martyred under Stalin.
Fr. Lawrence Farley
What was the Church like in 60 A.D.? We do not know as much as our curiosity might demand, but we do know some things.
Hieromonk Pamphil (Osokin)
During the whole war over 74,000 children of both sexes up to age fourteen were killed. The majority of these were of Serbian Orthodox origin.
Russia, for centuries and up to the present day, has been and remains a testing ground for the technologies of the “big lie.”
Years later she told her cell-attendant that at the very moment she stepped inside the enclosure she knew: This is my home—one I had never found before.
The story of her family line begins in 1835, when a beloved daughter of Emperor Nicholas I made an unusual request for her sixteenth birthday: She asked to spend her entire life in Russia.
Aleksey Gunkin
So much for the “Mercedes cars and Bavarian beer” promised under the “new order.” People woke each morning not knowing whether they would live out the day—or what fresh horrors awaited them.
Archbishop Justinian of Elista and Kalmykia
Based on my experience, I wish that every clergyman—priest or a bishop—never hesitate to communicate with his flock, regardless of whether they belong to just one parish or a whole diocese. We should stop using a patronizing tone while proclaiming “unyielding truth” from the ambo.
The period from 1901 to 1910 was not only a time of emerging unrest in the Russian Empire, but also one of careful preparation for a revolutionary apocalypse. Interestingly, V. I. Lenin held the same view; in his 1920 article, “Left-Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder, he referred to the events of 1905–1907 as a “general rehearsal,” without which “the victory of the October Revolution of 1917 would have been impossible.”
