Patriarch kirill family and children. His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia

The third vos-kre-se-nye under-go-to-wit-tel-no-go per-o-da to Ve-li-ko-mo po-stu-n-e-xia in Pra -won-glorious ka-len-da-re Week-ley about the Terrible su-de, or Week-ley me-so-empty. The first name is pro-dik-to-va-but te-my evangel-gel-reading for Li-tur-gi-she - about the future Terrible su- de living and dead; the second - pre-pi-sa-ni-tser-kov-no-usta-va: do not consume after this vos-kre-se-nya meat-sa.

What does "me-so-empty" mean?

Slavic ter-min "my-sop at st "(Greek. an O cr-eos, lat. carnis privium - deprivation meat-sa) means the pre-beauty of the taste of meat. Week-la me-so-empty-naya- this is Sunday 56 days before Pass-khi. It is followed by another one - next to a Ve-li-kim in a seventh and tsa - "raw", or, in simple-speech, - "mas-le-ni-tsa" (in the native ka-len-da-re she includes in se-bya also the Good-bye v-kr-se-nie in the quality of the top-sha-yu-shch-go ak-kor-da li-hih na-dear gu-la -th). Strictly co-blu-da-yu-di-e-ti-che-st-ro-well, a hundred from-ka-zy-va-yut-Xia this week from the meat and they eat only eggs and milk products (from-to-yes and the name of this week). In this - the last step-stump of the under-the-th-th-th-th-th position-zha-nia.

Mas-le-ni-tsa - christi-an-sky holiday?

Ob-ra-zo-van-ny christi-a-nin (and every man-age) should know that mas-le-ni-tsa in its own os-no-ve - a holiday with everyone is not chris-sti-an-sky! On the contrary - this is the ancient pagan holiday of the pro-water of the winter and the meeting of the spring, according to the word: “Mas- let-ni-tsu pro-vo-zha-em, the light of the sun, wait-yes-em. " This is its own-different "northern car-na-val", vak-ha-na-lia, with-the-leader-da-yu-shcha-i-sya unbridled ve-se-lem, zu-bo-dro-bi-tel-mi dra-ka-mi, game-ra-mi and hop-mi pi-ra-mi (this is what we all- where ho-ro-sho po-lu-cha-et-Xia). In the pre-christi-an-skie times-me-like-like gu-la-nia with the "umi-lo-stev-le-ni-e" of the pagan gods so-pro -with-yes-yes-yes-che-ve-che-mi victims-in-but-she-no-I-mi: remember our chris-sti-an-sky first-in-mu-che-ni-kah - ki-ev-skikh va-rya-gakh Fe-o-do-re and his son John (983). (Let us presume that they were resurrected, that they turned out to be on our mas-le-ni-tse and see if the strange numbers of intoxicating lak, pry-ga-yu-shchih around ko-st-ra with a pagan idol old-ru-hi-zi-we and bl-na-mi in hand ... Mu- che-ni-ki would have decided that in Russia-si there is still a tor-the-same-it-language-thing, which Prince Vlah-gave zealously, di-world in na-cha-le of its-e-righ-le-niya, and the baptism of our many-distant country has never been elk!) That-mu su-ro-vy voice of the Holy Great-glorious Church, crying about the Terrible Su-de, zo-veto to the -ya-niyu and pre-ga-et from the pagan mentality, still living in our consciousness.

After the baptism of Rus-si "from-me-thread" mas-le-ni-tsu (like some other pagan game, na-pri -measure, "Iva-nov day") and could not: our people are ready to come from a lot of things, but only not from the devil-sha-bash- gou-la-nok and for-a-liy with the tra-di-qi-on-ny-pro-som: "Do you respect me-zha-eat me?" In-this-mu Church you need co-took place this week vak-ha-na-liy with the last under-go-to-win-tel-noy before-ed Ve-li-kim po stom, in order to at least somehow con-troll-li-ro-vat about-out-ho-dya-s and not to let-go about-long-zh-niya ko-shun-n-n-th gu-la at the time of Ve-li-ko-go in a hundred. At the same time, it is customary to drink tea on the hop funeral feast of the ancestors of bl-na-mi (this astrological solitary sign) was re-conceptualized as s a go-ve-nye- holiday-nich-no tra-pe-zu na-ka-nune in a hundred. Greeks and other christi-ane cannot understand why our god-servant (!) "- ka-lendar ob-zy-va-et the pra-v-glorious cheese sed-mi-tsu, having po-lu-post-ny on ra-chi-o-well, but quite penitential according to his-th-th knowledge ha-rak-ter, the pagan term "mas-le-ni-tsa" (at least in brackets). Thus, in the eyes of a simple-to-ro-da, the name-well-yu-shche-bya "right-in-glorious", sank-tsi-o-ni- ru-is-sya itself "kar-na-val", and associated with it pagan rituals and evil-rapture. In the temples, it sounds-chit pre-do-no-go Ef-re-ma Si-ri-na, and on the streets - pagan ri-tu-al-nye za-kli-na -s and screeching cha-stush-ki, desecrating the ear of the church-but-th-l-ve-ka.

Cheese sed-mi-tsa or mas-le-ni-tsa?

"Cheese-naya sed-mi-tsa - pre-two-rie and na-cha-lo in a hundred"

The most glorious Cer-kov-ny ka-len-dar is named after the next week and tsu (nede-lyu) before-ed Ve-li-kim po-stom sy-rop at stno th (and people - mas-le-ni-tsey). The meaning of this sed-mi-tsy is in in-ste-pen-nom pe-re-ho-de from everyday life to ve-whether-to-post-ny "in-move-gam", which-rye, of course, for each do-go-chr-sti-a-ni-on their own - and determine-de-la-yut-Xia him in a break, as-ra-that, with-a-hundred-I-no-it is good-ro-vya and pro-fess-si-she. In wednesday and friday-no-tsu, yes, not so-top-sha-it-Xia God-zhestvennaya Li-tur-giya (this is a sign of how-yang-noy-bi) , and would serve the su-to-the-th cycle, containing and by-ka-yan-nyu mo-lit-wu pre-do-do-no-go Eph-re-ma Si-ri-na, almost co-answer-to-ve-li-to-post-nim. All this, according to-me-cha-tel-but-for-the-niu St. Ti-ho-na Za-don-sko-go, - "bright pre at tia a hundred "!

But the people - not only "simple" and "necessary" (this one is ridiculous now) - pro- cha-lo affection and by-ka-ya-niya "quite in lingual-che-ski - in noisy gulls and dubious for-ba-vakh.

One of the foreigners who came to Russia in the 17th century, Moses Oder-bon, with pleasure but-si-te-la za-pad-noy tsi-vi-li-zatsii kon-st-ti-ro-val (there are a lot of similar testimonies): “At this time - the name of the Russians is almost devil-break-jerk-but pro-long-zha-th-Xia obscurity and drunkenness; they bake pash-te-you, that is, ola-dyi and pancakes from butter and eggs, zy-zy-va-yut to se-be-sti and upe-va-yut-sya me- house, pi-vom and vod-koi to the drop-doo and to the devil-pa-mint. In the course of the whole mas-le-ni-tsy, one can only hear that something was killed, then something was thrown into the water ... ".

Over time, little has changed. Recall the kart-ti-nu Va-si-lia Su-ri-ko-va "Taking the snow-go-go-ka" -nie battle "wall-to-wall" in the film "Siberian tsi-ruhl-nik". Many simple-soulful people relate to these lu-barrel pictures of the past with but-steel-gy-ch-dy -ha-no-em and all-riez consider that all this is “su-gu-bo in-pra-in-glorious-no-mu”; that so it follows "go-to-whit-si" to Ve-li-ko-mo in-stu: drink-up-to-no-ob-ry-ziya, to sleep (forgive -that-for-the-blooded head-goal!) as much as possible pancakes, old-I can't die from the in fact, it happened), you know how to beat your neighbor's nose or you wriggle out a cheek, and then “do-ka-yat-sya” - steam-sy in a clean-n-del-nik in a bath-ke, in order to wash off the mas-le-nich-nye from the lack of-the-sh-t, and with a feeling of ho-ro -sho is-half-nen-no-go "right-in-glorious-but-go-long-ha" bu-khat earthly clones.

Of course, this is a pagan raz-gul-naya rite, in many ways artificially-but-born-yes-e-may this hour under the guise of the house of revolving to the "people-native tra-di-qi-yam". Obviously, by many, I wish-la-yu-shu-shun-but-but to wash off the water from Rus-si the bottom-prov-sku-pe-li, ho-odd ver- always to do-hri-sti-an-skim "Na-tsio-nal-ny is-to-kam". It’s not surprising that our country, in which swarm for nine hundred years, could not assert that it would be elemen-tar- the norms of the christian morale and the beliefs that made such a heavy nagging in the XX century. This was the "Last Judgment", fortunately, not yet window-to-door; but mind-but-you-try-vat God long-ter-singing? Another "Last Judgment" for our society, si-dya-shche-go on "ro-ho-ho (nuclear and ther-mo-nuclear) barrel -ke "can become in the direct sense of the Terrible (already without ka-vy-checks) and after-him. Everything depends on the ability to do it (that is, in the Biblical language - "re-change the thread of co-knowledge") and at least to attempt live like chris-sti-an-ski. To so-zha-le-niyu, instead of that-go, so that "on-to-ro-t-sia" - to remember the words of Spa-si-te-la that the Father of Heaven - he knows everything about each of us (yes, the questions on our heads!) and that without Him p-p-p-niya nothing about-out-goes, - many of us "roar-ni-te-li" from-ma-hi-va-yut-sya from the pro-cape of God and blame in all our troubles of various external su-po-sta-tov (their name-na ho-ro-sho is known). There is something to think about here, especially in the pre-two-sided Ve-li-ko-go a hundred.

Yuri Ru-ban,
Cand. ist. n-uk, cand. bo-th-words

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Saint Ti-Khon Za-don-sky († 1783) about mas-le-ni-tse

“A damp sed-mi-tsa is pre-two-rie and na-cha-lo a hundred. And in that way, the true cha-dam of the Church-vi is following in the Cheese sed-mi-tsu to-step in all the time-until the der-jean ... Do they listen, one-on-one, to Christ-ane of the weak-dignified songs of love-ve-abundant Ma-te-ri? She says these days more good-to-say - and they are even more outraged. She for-in-ve-du-e-hold-to-hold - and they even more than-give-up to the non-hold. She commands to cleanse the body and soul - and they desecrate them even more. She tells me to se-that-vat about co-de-yan-sins - and they add new ones without-for-con-ny. She inspires-sha-em to love-steer God - and they still more pro-anger-la-yut All-above-no-go. She does-know-cha-em fasting - and they are even more ob-food-eat-and-va-yut-Xia.<…>Sa-my idle-no-va-nie mas-le-ni-tsy - there is a pagan thing. The pagans-nikov had a false god Bacchus (invented-re-ta-tel hop-no-go pi-tya), which they established-di-li special-ben-ny -du hi-ni-ki (so na-zy-va-e-my wak-ha-na-li) and pro-vo-di-whether these idleness in all the nepot-requirements and measures. Look-ri-those, isn't it so chr-sti-ane about mas-le-ni-tsu, and equally a lot of idleness?<…>And I will say once again that whoever leads mas-le-ni-tsu in deranged rites, he becomes a clear disobedient one of the Church and for-ka-zy-va-et se-bya unworthy of the very name of the christi-a-no-na "(quoted from: Bul-ga-kov S.V. Na-so-naya book for sacred-but-church-but-servants. M., 1993.T. 1.S. 543-544).

It is believed that Maslenitsa is a pagan holiday rather than an Orthodox one. But it is not so. Pancake week - prep week to Great Lent. It is dedicated in the Christian sense to one goal - reconciliation with neighbors, forgiveness of offenses, preparation for repentance. Shrovetide is the time that needs to be devoted to good communication with neighbors, relatives, friends, charity. The Church calls to remember that at no time is it worth having fun, losing your head and conscience.

Shrovetide week, Maslenitsa is a common name Cheese week- the last week before Great Lent. During Shrovetide, meat is not eaten, but fish and dairy products can be consumed. During Maslenitsa week, the fast on Wednesday and Friday is canceled.

In Russia, Maslenitsa was celebrated as a joyful holiday. At the word "Shrovetide" in memory there are pictures of funny winter days filled with din and noise, delicious smells of pancakes, chimes of bells that adorned elegant triplets. The domes of churches shining in the sun, copper samovars burning like heat, festivities, booths and ceremonial tea drinking under the festive light of a lamp near the images.

In the church

On Shrovetide, Lenten services begin in churches. Wednesday and Friday are not performed Divine Liturgy, the Lenten prayer of Saint Ephraim the Syrian is read:

Lenten prayer of Saint Ephraim the Syrian

“Lord and Master of my life, do not give me the spirit of idleness, despondency, love of command and idle talk! Grant the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to me, your servant. She, Lord King, let me see my transgressions and not condemn my brother, for you are blessed forever and ever. Amen".

This prayer is repeated many times during all Lenten services.

What not to do on Shrovetide ...

From the admonition of Tikhon Zadonsky: "... Whoever spends Shrovetide in atrocities, he shows himself unworthy of the very name of a Christian."

But the words of the deputy. Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate: “Of course, Maslenitsa is a time when, according to tradition, people go to visit and communicate over a meal. But you should not destroy yourself with drunkenness or dangerous games at any time, especially in this week of penitence, which prepares a person for Great Lent, "he stressed in an interview with RIA Novosti.

... and what to do

The main dish on Shrovetide is pancakes, which are baked every day from Monday, but especially a lot - from Thursday to Sunday (wide Shrovetide). Shrovetide food is becoming the most important form of life. That is why people used to say that at this time one should eat as many times as the dog wags its tail or how many times the crow crows. Unlike many other holidays, on Maslenitsa not only gluttony at home, in the family, but also often go to visit and invite guests to their place.

Shrovetide is also a family holiday. Spring is associated with the beginning of a new life, with procreation. Therefore, in the past, they especially honored and congratulated young people who got married last year. They were sledged all over the village, but for a poor and meager treat they could be thrown face down into the snow. In people catholic faith, and also in some Ukrainian villages there is a custom to punish people who have not married in any way. It is believed that they are going against the law of God. On Shrovetide, bachelors were tied to their feet with a special shoe and forced to walk with such a mark all day.

Forgiveness Sunday

The last Sunday before the beginning of Lent is called the Church of Cheeseweed Week (it is on this day that the consumption of dairy products ends), or Forgiveness Sunday. This day after evening worship in churches, a special rite of forgiveness is performed, when priests and parishioners mutually ask each other for forgiveness in order to enter Great post with a pure soul, reconciled with all neighbors.

On Forgiveness Sunday, it is customary to ask for forgiveness from all relatives and friends, to which they usually answer: "God will forgive!"

Jokes

"No butter without pancake"

"Ride on the mountains, roll in pancakes"

"Not living, but Maslenitsa"

"Shrovetide is a waste of money, money is a money-changer"

"At least lay everything on yourself, but hold Shrovetide"

"Not everything for the cat is Shrovetide, but there will be Great Lent."

Why should the servant of God Kirill thank the "slave in the galleys"
What did the head of the Russian Orthodox Church do in the "dashing 90s"

Since the 1990s, Metropolitan Kirill has been assigned a new title - "Tabachny". In addition, Orthodox bloggers drew attention to great value in the life of Cyril, his hobby for alpine skiing: this hobby is served by a villa in Switzerland and a private jet, and in Krasnaya Polyana it helps to consolidate informal relations with the mighty of the world this ...

Patriarch Kirill (Gundyaev), following the “laws of the genre,” habitually scolds the 90s. Although it was then that he won the position and amassed a fortune, which allowed him in the end to take the patriarchal throne. Before accession to this throne, Cyril's personal fortune was estimated by some experts at $ 4 billion.

Celebrating the third anniversary of his enthronement on February 1, the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, Kirill, invited Vladimir Putin, who visited him, to have a detailed conversation with the leaders of the “traditional” confessions of Russia in a calmer atmosphere. Putin agreed, and the meeting took place on February 8. The main speaker at it was, of course, Cyril, although several muftis, a rabbi with an assistant, a lama, Protestant pastors and Catholic priest the national leader was allowed to sing his praises briefly. Only the Old Believer Metropolitan Korniliy kept silent - but not because he was too disgusted with such "hosannas", but out of natural modesty. Metropolitans Hilarion and Yuvenaly, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin and the chief PR man, as well as the censor of the Patriarchate, Vladimir Legoyda, also spoke on behalf of the ROC MP.

The patriarch told Putin what he thinks about "our future president." Of course, the audience froze when Kirill warned: “I must speak completely openly as a Patriarch who is called to speak the truth, not paying attention to either the political situation or propaganda accents ...” Here it is, the “duty of patriarchal sorrow” mentioned in the charter of the Russian Orthodox Church MP, that is, the duty of the primate of the church to intercede before the mighty of this world about the persecuted, unrighteously oppressed, prisoners of conscience. "Will he really say about political prisoners?" - flashed through my head. But nothing unexpected happened, the "patriarchal grief" did not take place again. With the utmost frankness, the patriarch said “that you, Vladimir Vladimirovich, personally played a huge role in correcting this curvature of our history in the dashing 90s. I would like to thank you. You once said that you work like a galley slave, with the only difference that the slave did not have such a return, but you have a very high return. "

Well, let's take a closer look at this "curvature of our history" and at what fruits this curvature brought personally to the citizen of the Russian Federation Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyaev, who was named Kirill in monasticism.

The start of the business of V.M. Gundyaev was appointed in 1992-1994. The most extensive dossier on this business was compiled by Doctor of Historical Sciences Sergei Bychkov, who published more than a dozen articles, mainly on the tobacco business of the future patriarch. None of his publications was officially refuted, in many respects Kirill admitted that the facts collected by Bychkov were true.

Cigarettes

In 1993, with the participation of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Nika financial and trading group emerged, and Archpriest Vladimir Veriga, the commercial director of the Department for External Church Relations (DECR MP), headed by Kirill, became its vice-president. A year later, under the Government of the Russian Federation and at the DECR MP, two "parallel" commissions on humanitarian aid appeared: the first decided what kind of aid could be exempted from taxes and excise taxes, and the second imported this aid through the church line and sold it to commercial structures. Thus, most of tax-exempt aid was distributed through the regular distribution network at normal market prices. Through this channel, in 1996 alone, the DECR MP imported about 8 billion cigarettes into the country (data from the government commission on humanitarian aid). This caused serious damage to the "tobacco kings" of that time, who had to pay duties and excise taxes and therefore lost in the competition with the DECR MP - it is believed that they "ordered" an information campaign to expose Kirill's business. According to Bychkov, when Kirill decided to leave this business, more than $ 50 million worth of "church" cigarettes remained in customs warehouses. In the course of the criminal war, for these cigarettes, in particular, an assistant to the deputy Zhirinovsky, a certain Zen, was killed. And here is a letter from the State Customs Committee of the Russian Federation to the Moscow Customs Administration dated February 8, 1997, concerning “church” cigarettes: “In connection with the appeal of the Commission on International Humanitarian and Technical Assistance under the Government of the Russian Federation and the decision of the Prime Minister dated January 29, 1997, No. VCh-P22 / 38 I authorize the production of customs clearance of tobacco products in established order with payment of only the excise duty received in the customs territory before 01.01.97, in accordance with the decision of the above-mentioned Commission. "

So, in fact, since then a new title has been assigned to Metropolitan Kirill - "Tabachny" (however, now he is no longer titled like that). Now it is customary to call it "Skiing" - with the light hand of Orthodox bloggers who drew attention to the great importance in the life and work of Kirill of his hobby for skiing (this hobby is served by a villa in Switzerland and a private jet, and on Krasnaya Polyana it helps to consolidate informal relationships with strong of this world).

The piquancy of Cyril's tobacco business is given by the fact that in Orthodoxy, smoking is considered a sin: it is actually detrimental to human health and life. Kirill himself tried to justify his participation in this business: “The people who were doing this did not know what to do: burn these cigarettes or send them back? We turned to the government, and it made a decision: to recognize this as a humanitarian cargo and provide an opportunity to implement it. " Government representatives categorically denied this information, after which Patriarch Alexy II liquidated the DECR MP commission and created a new ROC MP Commission on humanitarian aid, headed by Bishop Alexy (Frolov).

But let us return to the "dashing years", when the "curvature of our history" arose. In addition to the aforementioned Nika fund, the DECR MP was then the founder of the commercial bank Peresvet, JSC International Economic Cooperation (MES), JSC Free People's Television (SNT) and a number of other structures. After 1996, Kirill's most profitable business was the export of oil through the MES, which was exempted from customs duties at the request of Alexy II. Cyril was represented at MES by Bishop Victor (Pyankov), who now lives as a private person in the United States. The company's annual turnover was about $ 2 billion in 1997.

Due to the closed nature of this information, it is now difficult to understand whether Kirill continues to participate in the oil business, but there is one very eloquent fact. A few days before the start of the US military operation against Saddam Hussein, Kirill's deputy, Bishop Feofan (Ashurkov), flew to Iraq.

Seafood

According to Portal-Credo.Ru, in 2000, information was made public about the attempts of Metropolitan Kirill to enter the market of marine biological resources (caviar, crabs, seafood) - the relevant government structures allocated to the company established by the hierarch (JSC Region) quotas for catching Kamchatka crab and shrimp (total volume - more than 4 thousand tons). According to Kaliningrad journalists, Metropolitan Kirill, as the ruling bishop of the ROC-MP diocese in the Kaliningrad region, participated in an automobile joint venture in Kaliningrad. It is characteristic that Cyril, even after becoming a patriarch, did not appoint a diocesan bishop to the Kaliningrad see, leaving it under his direct control.

In 2004, Nikolai Mitrokhin, a research fellow at the Center for Shadow Economy Research at the Russian State Humanitarian University, published a monograph on the shadow economic activity of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. The value of the assets controlled by Metropolitan Kirill was estimated in this work at $ 1.5 billion. Two years later, the journalists of Moskovskiye Novosti tried to count the assets of the head of the Church Foreign Ministry and came to the conclusion that they already amount to $ 4 billion.

And according to The New Times, in 2002, Metropolitan Kirill bought a penthouse in the "House on the Embankment" overlooking the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Incidentally, this is "the only apartment in Moscow registered to the Metropolitan by his secular surname Gundyaev, about which there is a corresponding entry in the cadastral register."

Another attribute of this life, which has become the subject of widespread discussion, is a Breguet watch worth about 30 thousand euros, which Ukrainian journalists filmed on the left hand of the patriarch next to the monastic rosary. It happened the day after Kirill pompously broadcast live on the main Ukrainian TV channels: “It is very important to learn Christian asceticism ... Asceticism is the ability to regulate your consumption ... This is a person's victory over lust, over passions, over instinct. And it is important that both rich and poor have this quality ”.

Both the luxurious corteges of Patriarch Kirill and the security services from the FSO, which he uses, have become the talk of the town. In Moscow, when the patriarch rides, all the streets along his route are blocked, which, of course, causes massive indignation of car owners. In Ukraine, Cyril's half-kilometer motorcade completely shocked local residents: even the president travels much more modestly in a neighboring country.

True, we must pay tribute to Kirill: for official visits he charters the planes of the Transaero company, and uses his personal fleet only for personal purposes.

A separate and almost inexhaustible topic is the palaces and residences of the patriarch. Cyril strives to keep up with the top officials of the state in this matter. His permanent residence was a newly built palace in Peredelkino, for the sake of which several houses of local residents were demolished. From the windows of electric trains in the Kiev direction, it looks like a large Russian tower - like the Terem Palace in the Kremlin. Cyril does not like living there: he is worried about the nearby railway. Therefore, the current patriarch ordered to redecorate the palace in the Danilov Monastery, which did not look poor before. The construction of the Patriarchal Palace in Gelendzhik, next to the legendary "Putin's palace" in Praskoveevka, was not without scandals. As in the case of Putin, the patriarch's palace caused the indignation of local ecologists in the first place: it was built on the territory of the reserve, during the construction many trees listed in the Red Book were cut down, and the territory of the palace blocked access to the sea for local residents. There are also patriarchal residences in all more or less large monasteries in Russia.

Capital outflow is blessed

But back to the Danilov Monastery. After the head of Putin's headquarters, Govorukhin, uttered wonderful, highly spiritual words that under Putin, corruption in Russia has finally acquired civilized forms, it no longer seems strange that Patriarch Kirill welcomes the outflow of capital from Russia (after all, his own savings are by no means stored in his homeland) ... “The fact,” said Kirill to Putin, “that today in Spain, when it is one of the prosperous countries, is being massively sold by the Spaniards and bought by Russians in large quantities, is a very good signal to the whole world. A country that is poor, that is in crisis, cannot afford what rich countries do not allow today. "

Although the phrase is confusing, it is clear that, with christian point From our point of view, we must equate the “beautiful life” of the nouveau riche abroad with the glory and wealth of our country.

So, if Putin is again president, as Kirill prophesies, then we can assume that "sergianism" (the policy of complete subordination of the Church to power), about which the Chekist Putin spoke so warmly in his speech, again demonstrates its advantages over Christian confession and martyrdom. To which the patriarch can hardly strive so strongly, whose earthly life protected by FSO employees.

His Holiness Patriarch Moscow and All Russia Kirill (in the world Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyaev) was born on November 20, 1946 in Leningrad.

Father - Gundyaev Mikhail Vasilievich, priest, died in 1974. Mother - Gundyaeva Raisa Vladimirovna, teacher of German at school, in last years housewife, died in 1984. Elder brother - Archpriest Nikolai Gundyaev, professor, rector of the Transfiguration Cathedral in St. Petersburg. Grandfather - Priest Vasily Stepanovich Gundyaev, a prisoner of Solovkov, for church activity and the struggle against renovationism in the 20s, 30s and 40s. XX century exposed incarceration and links.

At the end of the 8th grade high school Vladimir Gundyaev joined the Leningrad Integrated Geological Expedition of the North-Western Geological Administration, where he worked from 1962 to 1965 as a cartographer technician, combining work with education in secondary school.

After graduating from high school in 1965, he entered the Leningrad Theological Seminary, and then the Leningrad Theological Academy, from which he graduated with honors in 1970.

As chairman of the DECR, he visited all Local Orthodox Churches as part of official delegations, including accompanying them on their trips abroad.

As the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, he officially visited the Local Orthodox Churches: Constantinople (2009), Alexandria (2010), Antioch (2011), Jerusalem (2012), Bulgarian (2012), Cyprus (2012). g.), Polish (2012), Hellas (2013).

Inter-Christian relations and cooperation

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill took part in the work of inter-Christian organizations. As a delegate participated in IV (Uppsala, Sweden, 1968), V (Nairobi, Kenya, 1975), VI (Vancouver, Canada, 1983) and VII (Canberra, Australia, 1991) General Assemblies of the WCC and as a guest of honor at the IX General Assembly of the WCC (Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2006); in the World Missionary Conference "Salvation Today" (Bangkok, 1973); President of the World Conference "Faith, Science and the Future" (Boston, 1979) and the World Conference "Peace, Justice and Integrity of Creation" (Seoul, 1990); participated in the assemblies of the commission "Faith and Order" of the WCC in Accra (Ghana, 1974), in Lima (Peru, 1982), in Budapest (Hungary, 1989). He was the main speaker at the World Missionary Conference in San Salvador, Brazil, in November 1996.

Was a delegate to the XI General Assembly of the Conference European Churches(Stirling, Scotland, 1986) and the XII General Assembly of the CEC (Prague, 1992), as well as one of the main speakers at the European Assembly of the CEC "Peace and Justice" (Basel, May 6-21, 1989).

Participated in the Second European Assembly of CEC in Graz, Austria (23-29 June 1997) and the Third in Sibiu, Romania (5-9 September 2007).

He took part in four rounds of bilateral interviews between theologians of the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches (Leningrad, 1967, Bari, Italy, 1969, Zagorsk, 1972, Trento, Italy, 1975).

Since 1977 - Secretary of the International Technical Commission for the Preparation of Dialogue between the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches. Since 1980 - member of the International Theological Commission for Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue. In this capacity, he took part in four plenary sessions of this commission: (Patmos-Rhodes, Greece, 1980; Munich, Germany, 1982; Crete, 1984; Valaam, Finland, 1988) and in the work of its Coordination committee.

He was a co-chairman of the second round of the Orthodox-Reformed dialogue (Debrecen II) in 1976 in Leningrad and a participant in the Evangelical Kirchentags in Wittenberg (GDR, 1983) in Dortmund (1991) in Hamburg (1995).

Participant of the dialogue with the delegation of the Old Catholic Church in connection with the 100th anniversary of the Rotterdam-Petersburg Commission, Moscow, 1996.

As chairman of the DECR, on behalf of the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church, he took part in contacts with the Churches of the USA, Japan, East Germany, Germany, Finland, Italy, Switzerland, Great Britain, Belgium, Holland, France, Spain, Norway, Iceland, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ethiopia, Australia, New Zealand, India, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Laos, Jamaica, Canada, Congo, Zaire, Argentina, Chile, Cyprus, China, South Africa, Greece.

As the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, he held a number of meetings with the heads and representatives of heterodox Churches and Christian organizations.

In 2012, it was signed by the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Chairman of the Polish Catholic Episcopal Conference.

Participation in the Councils of the Russian Orthodox Church

He was a member of the Local Jubilee Council of the Russian Orthodox Church (June 1988, Zagorsk), chairman of its Editorial Commission and the author of the draft Statute of the Russian Orthodox Church, adopted by the Jubilee Council.

He was a participant in the Council of Bishops dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the restoration of the Patriarchate (October 1989) and an extraordinary Council of Bishops on January 30-31, 1990, as well as the Local Council on June 6-10, 1990, Bishops' Councils October 25-26, 1991; March 31 - April 4, 1992; June 11, 1992; November 29 - December 2, 1994; February 18-23, 1997; August 13-16, 2000; October 3-6, 2004, June 24-29, 2008

Presided over the Bishops' (2009, 2011, 2013) and Local Councils(2009), at the rest of the above Councils of the Russian Orthodox Church he was the chairman of the Editorial Commission.

As the chairman of the DECR, he made reports on the work of the DECR. At the Jubilee Council in 2000, as chairman of the respective Synodal Working Group and the Synodal Commission, presented the Fundamentals social concept Of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Charter of the Russian Orthodox Church.

At the Council of Bishops on October 3-6, 2004, he also delivered a report "On relations with the Russian Church Abroad and the Old Believers."

Administration of the Smolensk-Kaliningrad Diocese (1984-2009)

During the stay of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, 166 parishes were opened at the Smolensk-Kaliningrad cathedra (94 in Smolensk and the region, 72 in Kaliningrad and the region). 52 Orthodox churches have been restored and 71 newly built.

In 1989, the Smolensk Theological School was opened, which was transformed in 1995 into the Smolensk Theological Seminary.

Since 1998, the Interdiocesan Theological School has been operating, training directors of church choirs, catechists, icon painters and sisters of mercy. Most parishes of the diocese have Sunday schools... There are Orthodox grammar schools and kindergartens.

Since 1992, the Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture have been taught in public schools in the Smolensk and Kaliningrad regions.

Work as chairman of the DECR (1989-2009)

Represented the Russian Orthodox Church in the commissions for the development of the USSR Law "On freedom of conscience and religious organizations" of October 1, 1990, the RSFSR Law "On freedom of religion" of October 25, 1990 and the Federal Law Russian Federation“On freedom of conscience and religious associations"Dated September 26, 1997

As chairman of the DECR, he took part in many international public and peacekeeping initiatives.

He took part in the development of the church position and peacekeeping actions during the events of August 1991 and October 1993.

He was one of the initiators of the creation of the World Russian People's Council in 1993. He took part and delivered key reports at the Councils (1993-2008). Since his election to the Patriarchal See, he has been the chairman of the ARNS (since 2009).

As the chairman of the Commission of the Holy Synod for the revival of religious and moral education and charity, he initiated the creation of synodal departments for religious education, social service and charity, for interaction with the armed forces and law enforcement agencies. He was the author of the Concept for the revival of charity and religious education adopted by the Holy Synod on January 30, 1991.

Developed and submitted for approval to the Holy Synod the "Concept of Interaction between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Armed Forces" in 1994.

1996 to 2000 - supervised the development and presented to the Jubilee Bishops' Council of 2000 "The Fundamentals of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church."

He took an active part in the normalization of the ecclesiastical situation in Estonia. In this regard, he visited the Antioch and Jerusalem Patriarchates (trips to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Israel in 1996), and also participated in negotiations with representatives of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in Zurich (Switzerland) in March and twice in April 1996. , in Thessaloniki, Tallinn and Athens (1996), in Odessa (1997), in Geneva (1998), in Moscow, Geneva and Zurich (2000), in Vienna, Berlin and Zurich (2001) .), in Moscow and Istanbul (2003); He also visited Estonia on several occasions, where he negotiated with government representatives, parliament members and the country's business community.

He took an active part in peacekeeping actions in Yugoslavia. During the war, he visited Belgrade several times, negotiated with the leadership of this country, initiated the creation of an informal international Christian peacekeeping group on Yugoslavia (Vienna, May 1999) and the convening of an international inter-Christian conference on the topic: "Europe after the Kosovo crisis: further actions of the Churches" in Oslo (Norway) in November 1999.

He was the main speaker at the Parliamentary Hearings dedicated to the "Foundations of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church" (Moscow, 2001), and the topics "Religion and Health" (Moscow, 2003), "Improvement of the legislation on freedom of conscience and on religious organizations: application practice, problems and solutions ”(Moscow, 2004).

He initiated a dialogue with European organizations in Brussels and created in 2002.

As chairman of the DECR, he visited Estonia (many times), Switzerland (many times), France (many times), Spain (many times), Italy (many times), Belgium (many times), Holland (many times), Germany (many times), Israel (many times), Finland (multiple times), Ukraine (multiple times), Japan (multiple times), Canada (multiple times), China (multiple times), Hungary (multiple times), Moldova (multiple times), Norway (multiple times), Lebanon and Syria (multiple times), Serbia (multiple times) ), USA (many times), Turkey (many times), Brazil (many times), Australia (1991), Austria (many times), Latvia (1992), Chile (1992), Bulgaria (1994, 1998, 2005 biennium), Czech Republic (1996, 2004, 2007), Slovakia (1996), Iran (1996), Lithuania (1997), Denmark (1997), Morocco (1997), Argentina (1997, 2006), Mexico (1998), Panama (1998), Peru (1998), Cuba (1998, 2004, 2008), Luxembourg (1999), Nepal ( 2000), Slovenia (2001), Malta (2001), Tunisia (2001), Mongolia (2001) , Croatia (2001), Vietnam (2001), Kampuchea (2001), Thailand (2001), Ireland (2001), Iraq (2002), Liechtenstein (2002), Philippines (2002), special regions of the PRC - Hong Kong (2001, 2002), Macau (2002), South Africa (2003, 2008), Malaysia (2003), Indonesia (2003), Singapore (2003), UAE (2004), Poland (2004), Netherlands (2004), Dominican Republic (2004), Yemen (2005), DPRK (2006), India (2006), Romania (2007), Turkmenistan (2008), Costa Rica (2008), Venezuela (2008), Colombia (2008), Ecuador (2008), Angola (2008), Namibia (2008). Hungary, Mongolia, Slovenia, Iran, Iraq and Yemen visited with official visits at the invitation of the governments of these countries.

Patriarchal ministry. Management of the Russian Orthodox Church

Reform of central authorities undertaken in 2009 church government... Fundamentally reorganized activities, clarified the scope of activities of the Department for External Church Relations, created new synodal departments, the functions of the Russian Orthodox Church have been divorced, and analytical work has been carried out to formulate the necessary changes in the structure of Holy Synod and in the whole system spiritual education... Activity intensified.

In 2012-2013. the formation of metropolitanates continues, an increase in the number of bishops and dioceses. Control is exercised over the implementation of the instructions of the Councils of Bishops in 2011 and 2013. Based on the adopted documents on social, missionary, youth work, religious, educational and catechetical ministry in the Russian Orthodox Church, a detailed base of documents was developed, as well as partly provisions governing the special training of ministers in these areas. There is a spread of transformations from the central apparatus of the Church to the level of dioceses. The subject "Foundations of Orthodox Culture" is included in the curriculum of secondary schools in all regions of Russia.

During the Patriarchal service, the following were formed:

- Inter-Council Presence of the Russian Orthodox Church (2009)

- Bodies of ecclesiastical executive power:

• Supreme Church Council of the Russian Orthodox Church (2011)
• Synodal Department for Relations between Church and Society (2009)
• Synodal Information Department (2009)
• Financial and Economic Department (2009)
• Synodal Committee for Cooperation with the Cossacks (2010)
• Synodal Department of Prison Ministry (2010)
• Patriarchal Council for Culture (2010)
• Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism (2012), transformed from the Synodal Commission for Monasteries (2010)

- Church-wide collegial bodies:

• Patriarchal Commission for Family and Maternity Protection (2012), formerly the Patriarchal Council for Family and Maternity Protection (2011)

- Church-wide postgraduate and doctoral studies in the name of the saints Equal to the Apostles Cyril and Methodius (2009)

- Interdepartmental Coordination Group for Teaching Theology in Higher Education (2012)

- Church-public council under the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia for perpetuating the memory of the new martyrs and confessors of the Russian Church (2013), former name - Church-public council for perpetuating the memory of the new martyrs and confessors of Russia (2012)

As the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, in 2009-2013. visited countries: Azerbaijan (2009, 2010), Armenia (2010, 2011), Belarus (2009, 2012, 2013), Bulgaria (2012), Greece (2013 d.) Egypt (2010), Israel (2012), Jordan (2012), Kazakhstan (2010, 2012), Cyprus (2012), China (2013), Lebanon (2011), Moldova (2011, 2013), Palestinian Authority (2012), Poland (2012), Syria (2011), Serbia (2013), Turkey (2009) .), Ukraine (2009, 2010 - 3 times, 2011 - 5 times, 2012, 2013), Montenegro (2013), Estonia (2013), Japan (2012 .).

By February 2014, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill made 124 visits to 67 dioceses, 156 visits to 26 stauropegic monasteries, in 21 of them more than once. Visited 7 farmsteads of stavropegic monasteries. Made 432 visits to 105 churches in Moscow (data as of January 31, 2014).

During the ministry of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, the following were formed:

• 46 Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church;
• 113 dioceses, including 95 dioceses in Russia *;
• Central Asian Metropolitan District (2011);
• vicariate in the Moscow diocese (2011).

The number of dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church increased from 159 at the beginning of 2009 to 273 at the beginning of 2014 (in Russia - from 69 to 164).

At the beginning of 2009, there were 200 bishops in the Russian Orthodox Church, at the beginning of 2014 - 312 *.

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill headed 109 episcopal ordinations, including: in 2009 - 5; in 2010 - 9; in 2011 - 31; in 2012 - 41; in 2013 - 22; in 2014 - 1 *.

Also, during 5 years of Patriarchal service, he performed 144 consecrations to the deacon and presbyter (18 to the deacon and 126 to the presbyter) *.

Awards

Awards of the Russian Orthodox Church

Church-wide awards

• 1973 - Order of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duke Vladimir (II degree)
• 1986 - Order Saint Sergius Radonezhsky (II degree)
• 1996 - Order of the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow (I degree)
• 2001 - Order of St. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna (II degree)
• 2004 - Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh (I degree)
• 2006 - Order of St. Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia (II degree)

Orders of Self-Governing and Autonomous Churches of the Russian Orthodox Church

• 2006 - Order Venerable Anthony and Feodosia Pechersky (I degree) (Ukrainian Orthodox Church)
• 2006 - Order “Blessed Governor Stephen the Great and Saint” (II degree) (Orthodox Church of Moldova)
• 2009 - Order of the Martyr Isidor Yuryevsky (I degree) (Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate)
• 2009 - Order in honor of the 450th anniversary of the bringing to the land of Volyn Pochaev icons Mother of God(Ukrainian Orthodox Church)
• 2011 - Order of St. Theodosius of Chernigov (Ukrainian Orthodox Church)

Awards of Local Orthodox Churches

• 2007 - Order Monk Sava Consecrated (II degree) (Alexandrian Orthodox Church)
• 2009 - Gold Medal of St. Innocent (Orthodox Church in America)
• 2010 - Commemorative Medal of St. Vladimir Theological Seminary (Orthodox Church in America)
• 2010 - Grand Cross of the Order of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark (Alexandrian Orthodox Church)
• 2011 - Order of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (I degree) (Orthodox Church of Antioch)
• 2012 - Order of the Holy Tsar Boris (Bulgarian Orthodox Church)
• 2012 - Golden Order of the Apostle Barnabas (Cypriot Orthodox Church)
• 2012 - Order of the Saint Equal to the Apostles Mary Magdalene (I degree) (Polish Orthodox Church)
• 2012 - Order of the Life-Giving Sepulcher of the Lord "Grand Cross of the Holy Sepulcher Brotherhood" (Jerusalem Orthodox Church)

Others' awards religious organizations and Christian denominations

• 2006 - Order of St. Gregory of Parumalsky (Malankara Church, India)
• 2010 - Order of St. Gregory the Illuminator (Armenian Apostolic Church)
• 2011 - Order of Sheikh-ul-Islam (Caucasus Muslims Office)
• 2012 - Order for services to the Ummah, I degree ( Focal point Muslims of the North Caucasus)

State awards of the Russian Federation

• 1988 - Order of Friendship of Peoples
• 1995 - Order of Friendship
• 1996 - Jubilee Medal "300 Years of the Russian Fleet"
• 1997 - Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
• 2001 - Order of Merit for the Fatherland (III degree)
• 2006 - Order of Merit for the Fatherland (II degree)
• 2011 - Order of Alexander Nevsky

State awards of foreign states

• 2009 - Order of Friendship of Peoples (Republic of Belarus)
• 2010 - Medal "65 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 " (Transnistrian Moldavian Republic)
• 2010 - Order "Sharaf" (Republic of Azerbaijan)
• 2011 - Order of the Republic ("OrdinulRepublicii") (Republic of Moldova)
• 2011 - Order of Saint Mesrop Mashtots (Republic of Armenia)
• 2012 - Order of the Star of Bethlehem (Palestinian National Authority)

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill was also awarded a number of other federal, departmental and regional state awards; has over 120 awards from Russian and foreign public organizations; is an honorary citizen of the cities of Smolensk, Kaliningrad, Neman (Kaliningrad region), Murom (Vladimir region), Smolensk, Kaliningrad, Kemerovo regions, the Republic of Mordovia and other regions and settlements of the Russian Federation.

Publications on the Patriarchia.ru portal

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill: It is impossible to end wars in a world of dislike [Patriarch: Interview]

"Religious education in the postmodern era." Speech by the Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad at the XV Christmas Readings [Documents]

Actually, there are many links on this topic on the network, who just did not write about it, from Deacon Kuraev to Stas Sadalsky:
http://blagin-anton.livejournal.com/46223.html
http://wap.nazionalizm.forum24.ru/?1-8-0-00000049-000-0-0-1251218670
http://irizz.livejournal.com/117597.html
http://i-hate-the-snow.livejournal.com/46649.html
http://www.luchmir.com/Declarations/2Slovo09.htm
http://forum.dpni.org/archive/index.php/t-36574.html?s=
http://3rm.info/index.php?newsid=1294

This is almost a recognition for future generations, isn't it?

I was interested in the words of A. Nevzorov in his interview on Echo this week:

O. Bychkova― In the history of modern Russia, all murders are mysterious. Because 20 years have passed since Listyev was killed and still nothing is clear.

A. Nevzorov - Yes, everything is clear there. There simply no one will stir up that pile, because in fact, both the customers and the performers are all dead a long time ago. And there is, for example, the death of Ridiger, Alexy II, where not even a criminal case was initiated. Where was it released on such softest brakes, moreover, I will tell you as an anatomist that in order to crush the posterior ear vein by hitting the toilet bowl or some hard surface, in a small room, you have to hit this hard surface 15 times, and every time do it with increasing force. Because it is very well protected, and it possesses, anatomists know it, such a slippery property. And there was not even a criminal case. And no investigative experiments and nothing at all.

And here is more about it:

How High priest Putin's Reich, Patriarch Kirill amassed his billions of dollars in speculation in tobacco, alcohol and oil (exempted from taxes and excise taxes) in the dashing 90s, as he, the head of the bandit empire of the ROC, eliminated and liquidated his competitors, many have already written. Yes, yes, in those very dashing 90s, about which he once put it this way:

"That a huge role in correcting this the curvature of our history(the dashing 90s) you played personally, Vladimir Vladimirovich. I would like to thank you. You once said that you work like a galley slave, with the only difference that the slave did not have such a return, but you have a very high return. "

All patriarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church, including the current one, are KGB officers:

During the criminal tobacco war of the 90s, in which the future Patriarch became the winner, and then the godfather of the shadow business of the ROC Vladimir Gundyaev, many people were killed, including Zhirinovsky's assistant Gennady Dzen, a bandit from Smolensk, head of Roskontraktpostavka, and another his assistant, Alexander Frantskevich. Zhirik himself also took part in this war. In those years, the thug "Tabachny" was entrenched for Gundyaev, but now he is more often called another nickname - Ski-Neg, because he loves to go downhill skiing in the spiritless country of evergreen doormen in Switzerland, where he has his own villa, to which he flies on his own plane ...

Materials from the KGB archives, studied in 1992 by a parliamentary commission headed by the dissident priest Fr. Gleb Yakunin, revealed that most of the church hierarchy was associated with the secret police.

62-year-old Kirill Gundyaev bore the code name "Mikhailov", and Filaret was identified as agent "Ostrovsky". It is suspected that Clement worked for the KGB under the pseudonym "Topaz".

Metropolitan Filaret, appointed Metropolitan of Minsk in 1978, was the head of the Department for External Church Relations in the 1980s. In 1989, this powerful structure was headed by Metropolitan Kirill.

In addition to the villa in Switzerland, the Tobacco Skiing Patriarch has palaces in Peredelkino, in the Danilov Monastery, in Gelendzhik, next to Putin's palace, and a penthouse with a terrace in the House on the Embankment - overlooking the Cathedral of Christ the Savior:

And the former right hand His Eminence - Bishop Victor (in the world - Pyankov) now, having stolen, lives in the sinful States as a private person. Surely he indulges in fasts and prayers and, as Zhvanetsky said, "he regrets terribly."

Read more in Novaya Gazeta, and also or see for yourself:

Since then, the Gundyaev Palace near Gelendzhik, for the sake of which the protected forest of red and other unique trees was cut down, was built long ago. This is how the main priest of Russian morality lives:

Kirill’s residence, which occupied the entire territory from the sea to the highway, not only “chewed off” half a kilometer of the public coastal strip and road, but also blocked the last opportunity for people to safely exit to the forest and the cemetery. Now they need to make a detour, not a kilometer, but three kilometers (!), One of which is along the highway.

This road was called "the road of death" because people are dying on it.
And all so that someone could stick out their belly and no one could see it.

With a native of Gebni, Reverend Comrade Gundyaev, who replaced Alexy II, who was killed by him, the area of ​​the residence increased 10 times (!) THE LAW PROHIBITS IN PRINCIPLE.

Read about how the community for many years tried to fight against all these iniquities, it contains a lot of details, links, photographs and documents.

The patriarch still loves not only to teach the people of life (well, for example: “ It is very important to learn Christian asceticism ... Asceticism is the ability to regulate one's consumption ... This is a person's victory over lust, over passions, over instinct. And it is important that both rich and poor possess this quality."), But also to shake off" for "corruption and to stigmatize corrupt officials:

Asceticism is a good thing, especially when your fortune is 4 times that of Rottenberg Sr. and 8 times that of Rottenberg Jr.

Such is the ascetic code ...

P.S. As writes famous philosopher Boris Paramonov, Patriarch Gundyaev has in common with a spiritless geyrope not only that he goes skiing there, like Pastor Shlak. As it turns out, the patriarch himself - that:
“It would be possible to talk about similar scandals in the Russian Orthodox Church. But here Deacon Kuraev has already said a lot. Except to remember that Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov) of Leningrad was a homosexual, which everyone knew, even my church-going mother-in-law. as they say on church language, "night cell attendant" or, as it is written in Wikipedia, "obeyed the personal secretary."