Mihaela Rodina
Rating: 8.5|Votes: 6
A bit bruised but still standing, old Orthodox churches can be found around Bucharest, having escaped the frenzied demolition of the Romanian capital in the 1980s ordered by ex-communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
Rating: 8.9|Votes: 7
Yesterday, in the Ascension Pechersky Monastery in Nizhny Novgorod, the opening of the unique Avenue of Emperors of the House of Romanov was held, as part of the celebrations for the 120th anniversary of the founding of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society (IOPS).
Nun Cornelia (Rees)
Rating: 9.4|Votes: 32
The regime ushered into Russia by Lenin and his minions had an overpowering destructive impetus—to tear down the old and build the new.
Rating: 9.3|Votes: 28
The head of the Russian Imperial House H.I.H. the Grand Duchess Maria of Russia recently released a statement on the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, calling for an evaluation of the bloody events based on the “system of spiritual and moral values that took shape during the long course of Russian history” and stating that the main cause of the revolution was a “profound spiritual crisis.”
Rating: 9.9|Votes: 27
The chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk expressed his conviction that Russia would have achieved much greater success if it had developed not along a revolutionary, but an evolutionary path.