Sculptures of 16 Russian patriarchs to be installed soon at Christ the Savior

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Church History

Rating: 9.1|Votes: 10

Sculptures of 16 Russian patriarchs to be installed soon at Christ the Savior

People’s Artist of Russia sculptor Salavat Scherbakov has begun the final phase of the creation of the sculptures of 16 patriarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church which will be installed at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral.

Mathilde: Time to Reevaluate the History of the Royal Family

Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Egorievsk

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Orthodoxy Today

Rating: 9.9|Votes: 31

Mathilde: Time to Reevaluate the History of the Royal Family

Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Egorievsk

The story and screenplay of the film is built upon a lie. Many who have seen the widely-released trailer on the internet, or who, like me, have read the script, felt this untruth particularly acutely. Why?

Memorial with names of Stalin’s victims opens at Butovo firing range

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Church History

Rating: 9|Votes: 26

Memorial with names of Stalin’s victims opens at Butovo firing range

A new memorial, “Garden of Memory,” has been opened at the former Butovo firing range, bearing the name of all those shot on that spot in the years of Stalinist repressions.

Proposal to rebuild Ipatiev House where royal family was martyred comes on eve of 40th anniversary of its destruction

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Church History

Rating: 7.4|Votes: 26

Proposal to rebuild Ipatiev House where royal family was martyred comes on eve of 40th anniversary of its destruction

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the razing of the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, where Tsar Nicholas II and his family were martyred on July 17, 1918.

According to “The Domestic Rule”

On Edinoverie Family Life in Our Days

Vladimir Basenkov

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Marriage and Family

Rating: 8.8|Votes: 39

According to “The Domestic Rule”

On Edinoverie Family Life in Our Days

Vladimir Basenkov

The value of tradition as the best experience of our ancestors, accumulated, refined, and transmitted, has been devalued in our days. The modern Orthodox family is compelled to seek new ways to orient their everyday life. Over the course of the many centuries of Christian history, the Russian people created a universal system of family values, which, having moral categories, is always clearly manifested externally: in expressions, relations, and organization of space.