And so three such aunties showed up at my friend’s temple when we were just about to leave for. “What grace,” they say, “take us too!” They put them in the back seat.
On the way, two of them chattered non-stop. At first they said that they came on the recommendation of Victor from Pskov Pechory, with whom my friend allegedly served in the army. He remembered and remembered, and something turned out badly for him: no wonder - after all, thirty years had passed... Then we were told that Deacon Nicholas from some diocese had a fourth son, and Archpriest Peter had an eighth daughter. We were very happy for the fathers, whose existence we did not even suspect, and who, meanwhile, scolded so many children. Then stories began about myrrh-streaming and other miracles, interspersed with various gossip, so I had to change the topic of conversation:
Why is your friend silent? - asked my friend.
Yes, she has only just begun to join the church: she is still embarrassed by the priests - in their fussiness they did not notice that virtuous modesty was a reproach for a person...
However, they immediately attacked their fellow traveler with persuasion and admonitions. She resisted for some time, repeating: “Who cares?” - but in the end she agreed to tell some of her story.
It happened in the late fifties, when the narrator was a student. She lived then in Simferopol. She became very ill and was taken by ambulance to the hospital. And so she lay in the emergency room for an hour, and another, and a third... Consciousness began to leave her from time to time, and returned less and less often...
Suddenly, through the darkness, through the veil, she sees: an old man in a white robe is coming down the stairs. He descends slowly, carefully, gripping the railing so tenaciously... He came up, bent over her, and his eyes were white, as if blind. And asks the nurse on duty:
How long ago did you bring it?
About three hours, probably, if not more.
Why don't they operate?
It's a party meeting! Reporting and election! They were not ordered to disturb in any extreme case.
He ordered:
Here consciousness again left the dying woman. She woke up already in the operating room: an icon of the Most Holy Theotokos was hanging on the wall, and a blind old man was praying in front of this icon...
“I had time to think,” the narrator recalled, “that I was terribly unlucky: not only was the surgeon blind, but he was also wasting time, although he himself said that there were twenty minutes left. And suddenly I, an atheist, a Komsomol member who threw away my grandmother’s icons, prayed: “Most Holy Theotokos, save me!” I know that I could not speak - my mouth was dry, and my lips did not move: I turned to the Mother of God mentally, but the old man, coming up to me, said: “Don’t worry - she will save you”...
The operation went well, and the patient was discharged a few days later. Years later, she found out that the great surgeon Voino-Yasenetsky operated on her... Such a story.
In the Lavra, my friend and I went about our business, and the aunties went home.
Subsequently, the narrator became a nun of one of convents. And her friends are still scurrying and scurrying around the parishes.
A lot has already been written about the great prayer book, brilliant doctor and Russian patriot Saint Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky). This man amazes everyone who gets acquainted with his life.
I am especially amazed by how Saint Luke managed to understand the most difficult situation, created in Russia after the revolution of 1917, how he managed to separate the wheat from the chaff, how he managed not to fall into the temptation of denying Soviet power. Neither the bullying of the security officers, nor the camps, nor hunger, nor cold, nor the loss of the opportunity to serve and heal for many years could shake him. He endured all this not only because he possessed the greatest humility and courage, but also because he saw the light in a new Soviet life, despite all its flaws, God’s incomprehensible providence saves Russia from destruction. This is an insoluble problem and headache for liberal church historians who would very much like to make the saint a banner of the struggle against the Soviet past, since it is difficult to find a person who suffered more from Soviet power than he did. That is why the authors of the first biographies of St. Luke carefully kept silent about his attitude towards Soviet power and, in particular, towards Joseph Stalin. But over time, everything fell into place. And today Orthodox readers are well aware of the words of St. Luke about Stalin: “Stalin saved Russia. He showed what Russia means to the rest of the world, and therefore I, as an Orthodox Christian and Russian patriot, bow deeply to Stalin.”
Why did the saint say these words? Because he saw in Stalin a man who continued the great Russian cause, because he saw in the Soviet period the continuation of Russian history.
The true feat and clear position of St. Luke are opposed to the dubious feat and muddy position of the writer Solzhenitsyn.
As always, our liberal intelligentsia chose in favor of the treacherous Vlasov position and tried to impose this choice on the entire Russian society. But from the heights of the Crimean mountains a new lamp of the Russian Orthodox Church, Saint Luke, shone, and Vlasovites of all stripes began to fussily and fearfully crawl into their dark holes. True, they periodically jump out of these holes to utter their anti-Soviet squeals and whistles, but each time we observe how confusion grows in their evil and dishonest pupils. Russophobic de-Stalinization is not taking place in Russia and will not pass, because the figure of St. Luke of Crimea stands unshakably in its path.
Representatives of the far abroad cannot calm down either, calling us Sergians, Reds, servants of the atheistic authorities, etc. etc. How ridiculous their hysterical attempts look against the background of the great feat of faith and self-denial of St. Luke and those like him. Can you compete with such Sergians, gentlemen, foreign spiteful critics?! You should think about this and...
And with what amazing depth and clarity the saint reveals those secret forces that stand behind all the wars waged by the West: “At Mount Sinai, the Jews demanded from the high priest Aaron that he erect for them a golden calf. And the golden calf, although destroyed then by Moses, continues to be worshiped to this day by those who reject Christ. They, they, insatiable seekers of gold, whole piles of gold, making enormous capital from wars - they are the culprits of these terrible wars, these atrocities! These words were spoken by the saint in 1951, but how relevant are they today, when he is a true disciple of Stalin.
For me personally, St. Luke is also dear because he literally saved my life. Ten years ago I ended up in the fourth City hospital, in the purulent department. The cause was erysipelas of my right foot, which turned into gangrenous phlegmon. How I managed to develop the disease to such an extent, I still have no idea. The foot became swollen and red, and I continued to serve without going to the doctors. Probably our Russian carelessness, which sometimes goes beyond all reasonable boundaries, played a role. And when my foot could no longer fit into the shoe, I turned to a surgeon at the City Hospital. When she saw my leg, her eyes widened in amazement and she involuntarily burst out: “Do you want to die? You have gangrene!” For the first time in my life, I truly understood and felt that I could die. I was urgently taken to the purulent department. The most came chief professor and, looking at my foot, he even whistled. “How did you, father, come to live like this, you are an intelligent person, we don’t even bring homeless people in this condition. Urgently for surgery! - said the professor. The operation was performed for several hours under general anesthesia. But even after the operation, my life hung in the balance, because the area of the affected foot was so large that gangrene could spread higher up the lower leg and then...
Then I saw people whose leg was amputated under the groin just because they had gangrene of the finger. Now I understand why I was so lucky. In the operating room hung an icon of St. Luke, the patron saint of all surgeons and especially purulent ones. The brilliant book of St. Luke “Essays on Purulent Surgery,” which received the Stalin Prize, has not yet lost its relevance.
It turned out that the very professor who examined my leg was a believer who greatly revered St. Luke, and it was he who decided to do without amputation, although he risked a lot. Every day I remember this man with great gratitude.
When I came to my senses, my wife brought me an icon of St. Luke, an akathist to him and literature about him. Every day I diligently turned to the saint in prayer, read the akathist, and gradually the illness began to recede. I remember that there were simple Russian men in the room with me, not church people, but very kind and courageous. One of them experienced such terrible pain that at night he dug his teeth into his pillow so as not to moan and wake up the others. I learned a lot from these people. We became very good friends. Every day I read to them the life of the saint and memories of him. You should have seen their enlightened and trusting faces at that moment! They asked me to get them the life of the saint, and each of them, when leaving the hospital, took with them a precious book.
When I was discharged from the hospital, I tried to thank the professor. He categorically refused to take the envelope and said with a smile: “I have absolutely nothing to do with this, that’s who we need to thank,” and pointed to the icon of St. Luke, which was placed above the desk of the professor’s office.
Take a look at the photograph of St. Luke, at this beautiful face of a true Christian, who feared no one but God, who saved and continues to save thousands of people from spiritual and physical death, before whom party leaders, camp guards and prison authorities trembled, and you will understand: why Russia and the Russian people are invincible.
Saint Father Luke, pray to God for us!
Priest Alexander Shumsky, especially for "Russian People's Line"
Having seen on the Internet a portrait of Archbishop Luka (Voino-Yasenetsky) with a quote attributed to him - “Stalin saved Russia, showed what it means to the world. Therefore, as an Orthodox Christian and a Russian patriot, I bow low to Stalin” - I was not surprised at first. The pro-Soviet sermons of St. Luke are known, and one of them - “The Lord has called us to peace” (ZhMP 1948. No. 1. P. 61-64) - at one time received a sharp rebuke in the Parisian “Russian Thought” (N. Kryukov-Angorsky “But deliver us from the evil one.” Open letter to Luke, Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea / RM No. 64 (July 2, 1948). Nevertheless, I decided to see where and in what connection St. Luke mentions Stalin.
The search results were completely unexpected.
1. The list of sermons of Bishop Luke published in the Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate is known. The magazine is digitized http://archive.jmp.ru/ and the articles are easy to view. At the same time, it turned out that Stalin’s name was not mentioned even once in the published articles. Only the Stalin Prize is found, which St. Luke received in 1944.
2. The book “The Crimean Diocese in the documents of St. Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky) and the supervisory authorities 1946-1961” (Simferopol, 2015) contains a report by the Commissioner for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church, which, in particular, reports on the celebration of the 70th anniversary of his birth Stalin. In all churches, naturally, there was a prayer service and many years. Further quote: “Luke himself served on this day in cathedral and at the end of the service he delivered a patriotic sermon about how our government is fighting for peace, but in the sermon he did not touch on the name of the leader” (p. 537). That is, the commissioner specifically emphasizes that in his sermon the bishop did not mention the hero of the day, although this was expected of him.
3) The same book contains information about the conversation of the commissioner with St. Luke (01/26/1960). “In a conversation with me, Archbishop Luka was interested in the issue of N.S. Khrushchev’s trip to America and said: “Khrushchev did more than Stalin in his entire life and he is sincerely glad of his successes”” (p. 1121).
These facts will make it possible to doubt that this statement really belongs to St. Luke, although, as we know, proving that someone did not say something is a hopeless matter. On the Internet, this quote was found in many places, but without indicating the source. And thanks to Alexander Medvedev, associate professor of the department of Russian literature at Tyumen State University, who pointed out that this quote first appeared in 1995 in a note by the priest. Dmitry Dudko: “Now I want to remember how our Patriarchs, especially Sergius and Alexy, called Stalin a God-given leader. They were joined by others, for example, such as the prominent scientist and theologian Archbishop Luke Voino-Yasenetsky. By the way, he sat under Stalin, but this did not stop him from calling Stalin God-given.<…>Yes, Stalin saved Russia, showed what it means for the whole world, we still have to figure this out. Therefore, I, as an Orthodox Christian and a Russian patriot, bow low to Stalin" (Fr. Dmitry Dudko. From the thoughts of a priest about Stalin // Stalin: in the memoirs of contemporaries and documents of the era / Compiled by M. Lobanov. M., 1995. P. 733 -734). In 1999, Fr. Dmitry Dudko again quotes this statement in the magazine “Our Contemporary”: “Archbishop Luka (Voino-Yasenetsky): “Stalin,” he said, “preserved Russia, showed what it means for the world. Therefore, as an Orthodox Christian and a Russian patriot, I bow low to Stalin." . 1999. No. 12. 188). In the same issue, Dudko writes: “And I, who sat under Stalin and Brezhnev, like Bishop Luka, am ready to exclaim: “Stalin is the God-given leader of Russia”” (Priest Dmitry Dudko. He was a believer // Our Contemporary. 1999. No. 12. P. 224). And then the quote begins to circulate outside the sacred texts. D. Dudko: “Both Sergius and Alexy called Stalin a God-given leader. The same opinion was shared by the prominent medical scientist and theologian Archbishop Luke - V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky, who, by the way, was in prison before the war. “Stalin,” he said, “preserved Russia, showed what it means for the world. Therefore, as an Orthodox Christian and Russian patriot, I bow low to Stalin”” (Soloviev B., Sukhodeev V. Commander Stalin. M.: Algorithm, 1999. P. 278).
In online publications, this quote is also found as the author’s text of the priest. D. Dudko: “Let’s finally at least figure this out. If Trotsky had won with his permanent revolution, we would have long ago found ourselves in reality, and not in name, as under Stalin, as cogs. Everyone would be a labor army for some dark forces. But it was Stalin who proved practically that socialism can be built in one country and saved Russia. Yes, Stalin saved Russia, showed what it means for the whole world, we still have to figure this out. Therefore, as an Orthodox Christian and Russian patriot, I bow low to Stalin.”
Apparently, the author of this statement is the priest D. Dudko, who attributed its authorship to St. Luke. Let me remind you that in the same article (Priest Dmitry Dudko. He was a believer // Our Contemporary. 1999. No. 12) two false extracts from the Politburo protocols of 1933 and 1939 appeared, where Stalin appears as a fighter against Lenin’s anti-religious policy and a defender of believers.
In the years since its first publication, the phrase attributed to St. Luke has been reprinted many times. By the time the exhibition “Orthodox Rus'” opened at the Manege, this quote had become a common place, and the organizers of the exhibition reproduced it as such. So they can (and should) be accused of unprofessionalism, and not of deliberate distortion of history. Which is more humane.
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Having seen on the Internet a portrait of Archbishop Luka (Voino-Yasenetsky) with a quote attributed to him - “Stalin saved Russia, showed what it means to the world. Therefore, as an Orthodox Christian and a Russian patriot, I bow low to Stalin” - I was not surprised at first. The pro-Soviet sermons of St. Luke are known, and one of them - “The Lord has called us to peace” (ZhMP 1948. No. 1. P. 61-64) - at one time received a sharp rebuke in the Parisian “Russian Thought” (N. Kryukov-Angorsky “But deliver us from the evil one.” Open letter to Luke, Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea / RM No. 64 (July 2, 1948). Nevertheless, I decided to see where and in what connection St. Luke mentions Stalin.
The search results were completely unexpected.
1. The list of sermons of Bishop Luke published in the Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate is known. The magazine is digitized http://archive.jmp.ru/, and the articles are easy to view. At the same time, it turned out that Stalin’s name was not mentioned even once in the published articles. Only the Stalin Prize is found, which St. Luke received in 1944.
2. The book “The Crimean Diocese in the documents of St. Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky) and the supervisory authorities 1946-1961” (Simferopol, 2015) contains a report by the Commissioner for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church, which, in particular, reports on the celebration of the 70th anniversary of his birth Stalin. In all churches, naturally, there was a prayer service and many years. Further quote: “Luke himself served in the cathedral that day and at the end of the service he delivered a sermon of patriotic content that our government is fighting for peace, but in the sermon he did not touch on the name of the leader” (p. 537). That is, the commissioner specifically emphasizes that in his sermon the bishop did not mention the hero of the day, although this was expected of him.
3) The same book contains information about the conversation of the commissioner with St. Luke (01/26/1960). “In a conversation with me, Archbishop Luka was interested in the issue of N.S. Khrushchev’s trip to America and said: “Khrushchev did more than Stalin in his entire life and he is sincerely glad of his successes”” (p. 1121).
These facts allow us to doubt that this statement really belongs to St. Luke, although, as we know, proving that someone did not say something is a hopeless matter. On the Internet, this quote was found in many places, but without indicating the source. And thanks to Alexander Medvedev, associate professor of the Department of Russian Literature at Tyumen State University, who traced the earlier history of this quote, its origin has become more or less clear. This quote first appears in 1995 in a note by St. Dmitry Dudko: “Now I want to remember how our Patriarchs, especially Sergius and Alexy, called Stalin a God-given leader. They were joined by others, for example, such as the prominent scientist and theologian Archbishop Luke Voino-Yasenetsky. By the way, he sat under Stalin, but this did not stop him from calling Stalin God-given.<…>Yes, Stalin saved Russia, showed what it means for the whole world, we still have to figure this out. Therefore, I, as an Orthodox Christian and a Russian patriot, bow low to Stalin" (Fr. Dmitry Dudko. From the thoughts of a priest about Stalin // Stalin: in the memoirs of contemporaries and documents of the era / Compiled by M. Lobanov. M., 1995. P. 733 -734). In 1999 in the magazine “Our Contemporary” in the section “To the 120th anniversary of the birth of J.V. Stalin. “His personality spoke for itself...”: contemporaries about Stalin” this phrase appears again, but its author is now Archbishop Luka: “Archbishop Luka (Voino-Yasenetsky): “Stalin,” he said, “preserved Russia, showed what it means to the world. Therefore, as an Orthodox Christian and a Russian patriot, I bow low to Stalin” (Our Contemporary. 1999. No. 12. P. 188). In the same issue, Dudko writes: “And I, who sat under Stalin and Brezhnev, like Bishop Luka, am ready to exclaim: “Stalin is the God-given leader of Russia”” (Priest Dmitry Dudko. He was a believer // Our Contemporary. 1999. No. 12. P. 224). And then the quote begins to circulate outside the sacred texts. D. Dudko: “Both Sergius and Alexy called Stalin a God-given leader. The same opinion was shared by the prominent medical scientist and theologian Archbishop Luke - V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky, who, by the way, was in prison before the war. “Stalin,” he said, “preserved Russia, showed what it means for the world. Therefore, as an Orthodox Christian and Russian patriot, I bow low to Stalin”” (Soloviev B., Sukhodeev V. Commander Stalin. M.: Algorithm, 1999. P. 278).
In online publications, this quote is also found as the author’s text of the priest. D. Dudko: “Let’s finally at least figure this out. If Trotsky had won with his permanent revolution, we would have long ago found ourselves in reality, and not in name, as under Stalin, as cogs. Everyone would be a labor army for some dark forces. But it was Stalin who proved practically that socialism can be built in one country and saved Russia. Yes, Stalin saved Russia, showed what it means for the whole world, we still have to figure this out. Therefore, as an Orthodox Christian and Russian patriot, I bow low to Stalin.”
So the author of this statement is priest D. Dudko, and its authorship was attributed to St. Luke in 1999. Let me remind you that in the same issue of Our Contemporary there was published an article by St. Dmitry Dudko. “He was a believer,” which contains two forged extracts from the Politburo protocols of 1933 and 1939, where Stalin appears as a fighter against Lenin’s anti-religious policies and a defender of believers.
In the years since its first publication, the phrase attributed to St. Luke has been reprinted many times. By the time the exhibition “Orthodox Rus'” opened at the Manege, this quote had become a common place, and the organizers of the exhibition reproduced it as such. So they can (and should) be accused of unprofessionalism, and not of deliberate distortion of history. Which is more humane.
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The history of the falsified quotation has long been clear to me. None of my opponents, the “Orthodox” Stalinists, during the 3 years of debate on social networks have ever cited a single serious source, except O.D. Dudko.
I don’t agree with the last paragraph about “unprofessionalism”. The manipulation of the quotation was intentional. This is how the organizers of the exhibition, who adhere to pro-Stalinist views, wanted to convey the story. It is strange that they forgot to place a portrait of their Idol on the balloons above the Manege.
It is also strange that later these same “power leaders” wonder why young people, the best young people, teach foreign languages and moves for permanent residence away from here.
German children are taken around Auschwitz to remember what their ancestors did. They don’t even take lowly, empty-headed idiots to the Butovo training ground. How much for Far North There were camps, how many unmarked graves, how many ordinary Russian people were buried in them...
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S. Khudiev’s article also raises controversial thoughts and questions - http://www.pravmir.ru/pena-na-gubah-angela/
Quote:
“And here at home we find ourselves in a similar missionary situation. The commandments of the Apostle undoubtedly relate to how we should behave with the Stalinists. Because Christ died for them. Because in their idolatry, in a sick and perverted form, longing for true worship. We must not shower them with abuse and insults. We must, as the Apostle commands, kindly and with meekness proclaim to them the true Father - the Heavenly Father, and the true leader of our salvation - Jesus Christ."
The dear brother in Christ wants to say that Christians should be Tolstoyans and “friendly and with meekness proclaim to them (Stalinists) the True Father - the Heavenly Father.” Who should they??? Stalinists with panagias and crosses on their chests? The servilists (may the strict reader forgive me), who for years were silent about their secret predilections for the Idol, and now have become apparent? Which can just as easily turn around to face anyone? (For grants or ideologically is another question.)
Where does such passive logic come from from an adult male publicist?..
And if the “Orthodox” Stalinists send me threats, then I can endure it. WITH There are all sorts of people on the Internet teaching us at gunpoint to love the Motherland!
I will definitely explain to my smart children that the Idol comes to life - it comes to life through the “efforts” of strange Christians, and not at all the dark pagans that the respected S. Khudiev is trying to make them out to be.
Do you want to take part in interrogations or stand guard on a camp tower? Maybe shoot at live targets? Or put needles under someone’s nails? Maybe children's sobs, gentlemen, will please your ears? Well, the tastes of today's Christians...
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S. Khudiev writes about the Stalinists: “Because Christ died for them.” A controversial, controversial moment.
“I do not pray for the whole world, but for those whom You have given Me, because they are Yours.”
Let's read the Gospel more carefully (John, chapter 17 - the chapter about the events before the crucifixion, the so-called High Priestly Prayer):
7 Now they have understood that everything that You have given Me is from You,
8 For the words that You gave Me I delivered to them, and they received and truly understood that I came from You, and believed that You sent Me.
9 I pray for them: I do not pray for the whole world, but for those whom You have given Me, because they are Yours.
10 And all that is mine is yours, and yours is mine; and I was glorified in them.
11 I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father! keep them in Your name,thosewhom You gave Me, so that they might be one, just as We are.
12 When I was at peace with them, I kept them in Thy name; those whom You gave Me I have kept, and none of them perished except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
13 Now I come to You, and I say this in the world, so that they may have My complete joy within themselves.
14 I have given them Your word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
15 I do not pray that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from evil.
16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them with Your truth; Your word is truth.
18 How You sent Me into the world,Soand I sent them into the world.
19 And for them I consecrate Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth.
Be that as it may, pro-Stalinist views are now encouraged, this is a fact - http://www.interfax-religion.ru/?act=news&div=61402.
So, we can draw conclusions about the future course of “Holy Rus'”.
Bishop Tikhon was awarded a prize from the Russian government for the exhibition "My History"
Moscow. December 23. INTERFAX - The executive secretary of the Patriarchal Council for Culture, Bishop Tikhon of Yegoryevsk, was awarded the Russian Government Prize in the field of culture for 2015 as the director of the “My History” series of exhibitions.
The corresponding order was signed by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. A total of 79 people received awards, the Cabinet of Ministers website reported on Wednesday.
For several years in a row, the exhibition-forum “Orthodox Rus'” in Manezh has been dedicated to individual stages in the history of Russia; its expositions form the cycle “My History”. At the same time, the latest multimedia technologies are actively used. Two years ago, the exhibition told about the Romanov dynasty, in 2014 - about the Rurikovichs, in 2015 - about the first half of the 20th century. After Moscow, exhibitions are exhibited in a number of Russian regions. The total number of visitors during the exhibition period of all exhibitions in the cycle is more than 1.3 million, which is unprecedented for exhibition events. In particular, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the mentioned exhibitions at Manege.
All three exhibitions of the cycle in 2016 will be permanently located in the 57th pavilion of VDNKh. They will amount historical park, the project of which is being implemented with the support of the Moscow government. The park's capacity (almost 29 thousand square meters) will allow it to simultaneously accommodate up to 5 thousand visitors, which will make it possible to conduct extensive educational work in the lecture hall and media center.
Nikolai Starostin, Genrikh Yagoda, Nikita Khrushchev, Joseph Stalin, Lazar Kaganovich and Andrei Andreev, 1935. Photo: ITAR-TASS
Destruction of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior (1931)
