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TSAR NICHOLAS II: RESTORER OF THE ORTHODOX AUTOCRACY By Dr. Vladimir Moss The title “Restorer of the Orthodox Autocracy” has been ascribed to Tsar Paul I, and not without reason. After the extreme westernization of the eighteenth-century Tsars, he began…
Protopriest M. Donetsky relates that in the foothills of the Caucasus, not far from Sochi, there was a state dairy farm. It was exemplary. Much was said and written about the farm in the local newspapers, as about one of…
Bishop Michael (Yershov) was born on September 17, 1911 (or October 12), in the village of Mamykovo in Kazan province, in a peasant family. His father, whose name was Basil, had taken part in the Russo-Japanese War, the First World…
On the Third Sunday according to the Gospel readings of St. Matthew, we celebrate the Synaxis of all the Martyrs after the Fall of Constantinople (1453).
THE CATACOMB CHURCH IN THE SOVIET UNION by Ivan Andreyev The All-Russian Church Council in Moscow in 1917-1918 gave the Russian Orthodox Church a firm canonical basis for the life of the Christian Church in an anti-Christian state. Patriarch Tikhon…
Today, July 16/29, is the anniversary of the notorious declaration of Metropolitan Sergius of Nizhni-Novogord in 1927, which created the largest schism in Church history since the Roman Catholic schism of 1054 and under whose shadow the whole life of…
Protodeacon Procopius was the choir director in the village of Kamyshinka, Bystro-Istoksky uyezd, Altai district, Siberia, and also served as a deacon in the Alexandrovskaya church in Biisk. At the end of 1928 or the beginning of 1929, he was…
The Nuns of Shamordinoin Solovki Prison AND THE MIRACLE OF THEIR MANLINESS Commemorated November 12 Upon him who labors—God sheds mercy, but he who loves acquires consolation. Elder Ambrose of Optina In the summer of 1929, there came to Solovki about…
THE EPISTLE OF BISHOP ALEXIS BUI OF KOZLOV ADMINISTRATOR OF THE DIOCESE OF VORONEZHGreater joy have I none than this, to hear that my children walk in the truth(III John 1:4).Standing on guard for Orthodoxy and vigilantly following all manifestations of…