time puts everything in its place,
it gives glory to some, it spews a
curse on others, it comes from strength to strength
and leaves
the main thing, the
main thing when it comes to people is
that they leave behind all these
truths repeated once and yet
other people are prepared by fate for feats and
loud words after its completion for
other ascents is
not to sin against your conscience,
then the circumstance requires something else from you
Patriarch Tikhon did not do something
externally in Brodsky, but at the same time,
his every word and deed in the last
seventy-and-a-half years of his life is worth
immeasurably more than hundreds of others
loud statements from the patriarch
were required to remain little and infinitely much
to remain himself at a time when the
political authorities in the country decided to
destroy the church asked Belavin was
born on December 19, 1865 in the city
in a hurry
his father Ivan was one was a
clergyman,
this determined the future fate of the
boy in 1791 After graduating from the
seminary and becoming a monk,
Vasily Belavin received a spiritual name. The
quiet beginning of his activities was
quite traditional, but soon
he began to gain fame in
his sermons,
not with parishioners at all, he was able to see
what was the subject of anxiety and
concern of people
as a servant of the Lord with his
He saw his purpose in
helping those in need through faith. How
people treated him can be judged at
least by the following event: he
became a bishop at the age of 33 and had already moved from Alma; they
gave him separate folders; they didn’t
want to let him in. Based on his memories, people
even legally moved so that the train
would not be able to remove all the transporting servants,
but the bishop came out quietly and asked that
he still be allowed to continue
serving the parishioners to listen for
nine years in 1898, already in the
rank of archbishop, he headed the Russian
Orthodox Church in America in those
days there were about half a million
parishioners
from 1907 to 1913 scales is the
Archbishop of Yaroslavl of Rostov,
but the most dramatic pages of his
life are in the seventeenth year
ready for the screen in 1917 according to the old
style
at the first All-Russian local
freedom tiffen was elected patriarch
for the last time before the Patriarch of All
Russia
was elected in pre-Petrine times the
need to elect a patriarch
did not arise by chance in the
first part of Job, the peak of the time of troubles was elected
and during the time of troubles he
was beaten and imprisoned and here,
too, after the February revolution
when blood was shed,
troubled times began, more and more people began to
talk about the need for a person who
can to love everything and when in the month of June in
Petrograd to pour again, who was then
deprived by the synod to urgently assemble a cathedral for
selection, shocked, enthronement has always been in the
Assumption Cathedral, and here the authorities
allowed believers to enter the Assumption Cathedral for one day; the
cathedral then had a
broken dome, cold, guarded by
soldiers and even the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in the
cathedral was with broken hands because
shells fell inside the cathedral; the fate of the 1st
patriarch was tragic; the path that
passed quietly was just as thorny and
difficult;
having seized power, the
Bolsheviks began a targeted
struggle against everyone who, they believed,
could interfere with his holder, along with the
persecution of political
Lenin's opponents paid special attention to the overthrow
of religion, the church was separated from the
state, and soon, as part of the
expropriation campaign, the expropriators
began confiscating church lands, temples, and
church property, it must be given
a lot of credit.
According to the
Orthodox Church, as the most
widespread country, it was the most
powerful and brutal, however, in the first months
after the seizure of power, the Bolsheviks did not yet
dare to launch a massive
attack on the church, a
real war was declared later in
1921, the versatilely educated
patriarch with extensive life experience saw what was really hidden
behind the loud calls of the new government, he
clearly imagined such tragic
events; the country still had to go through; in
his sermons, Tikhon openly condemned
violence; robbery, which was carried out under the
guise of political slogans on an ever-
increasing scale; forgotten violations of the
commandments of Christ's love for neighbors;
daily news of
terrible and brutal beatings reaches us; of which the
innocent and even the disease of
the people lying on the water are guilty, except
that they honestly fulfilled their duty to their
homeland, that they put all their strength into
serving the good of the people, and all this is
done not only under the cover of
night darkness,
but also in daylight with
hitherto unheard of audacity and
merciless cruelty without any trial
from the violation of all rights and legality
are being committed these days in almost all the
cities and villages of our fatherland, of course,
such words could not go
unheard in the Kremlin from the report of the Cheka to
Comrade Dzerzhinsky,
this is being distributed on the street of the author, it would not hurt to
arrest the situation around the rebellious the
patriarch began to heat up
in the summer of 1918, shortly after the execution of the
royal family, Patriarch Tikhon, during a
service in the Kazan Cathedral,
mercilessly criticized the
Bolshevik government
for agreeing to the execution of
pieces to kill without trial
a person who, in the name of saving the country,
voluntarily laid down a few months before the
revolution the authorities immediately
after this incident, I all think that the
shock would cool down quickly and then the
parishioners organized his temple, but the temple
was not like the Kremlin security
where the government met, these were
unarmed people, they lived in the
Trinity courtyard on an airplane next to
the patriarch and was a program was developed
if they came to take the patriarch, they had to
immediately sound the alarm; parishioners all over
Moscow gather near their churches and
go in religious processions in the Trinity cart; here they find out
which prison the patriarch was taken to; and all of
Moscow, secret passages go to this prison
and stand near it while the patriarch did not lower it,
and the government was afraid of this and
for some time he remained on his
seizure of political power, allowing
people to be forced to obey on pain of
arms
[music] the
first year from the moment of the
October armed coup was coming to an end,
summing up everything he saw and experienced,
the patriarch wrote to the Council of People's
Commissars and personally to his comrade Lenin's
open letter, in many ways, the accuracy of the guilt
and analysis
made by Tikhon was ahead of the time of
the Council of People's Commissars,
all those who took the sword will die by the sword, Matthew,
this is the prophecy of the savior, addressing
you, the current rulers are judging our
fatherland, who call themselves people's
commissars in quotation marks, have been holding
state power in their hands for a whole year and are already
getting ready celebrate the anniversary of the
October Revolution, but
the blood of our brothers has been shed in rivers, mercilessly killed
at your call, you are going to heaven and
forcing us to say a bitter word to you, the
truth is seizing power and calling on
the people to trust you, what are the promises to
the strong-willed and so these promises have been fulfilled,
truly you gave him a stone instead of bread
and they promised to give a snake instead of a fish to a
people exhausted by a bloody
war without annexations and
indemnities.
What conquests could you refuse, having
led Russia to a shameful peace, the
humiliating conditions of which even you
yourself did not dare to fully disclose
instead of annexations and indemnities,
our homeland is great, the cooks themselves are
dismembered Alena and the payment imposed on her, and
not in this news to Germany, not by you, the
accumulated gold, you took away the soldiers everything
for which they had previously fought valiantly,
you taught them recently, still brave and
invincible, left the defense of their homeland to flee
from the battlefields of the gazelle in the hearts of the
souls that was the knowledge that love more than yourself,
no one, mother, and whoever
laid down his soul for another, the fatherland was replaced by a
soulless international, although you yourself
know very well that when it comes to
defending the fatherland, the proletarians of all countries
are loyal legions, they are traitors,
and having refused to defend your homeland from external
enemies,
you, however, are constantly recruiting troops
against whom you are you will introduce,
we divided the entire people into hostile camps,
plunged them into
unprecedented cruelty, fratricide of
any Christ, openly replaced with
hatred and instead of peace, incited enmity among the
class and no
end is in sight, the war you generated,
no one feels safe,
everyone lives under constant fear of search,
robbery, gain arrest, execution,
are captured by hundreds of defenseless people,
knowing for months in prison, executed by
death, often without any investigation and
trial,
these unfortunates are killed in retaliation for
crimes committed by persons not
only they are not of the same mind as me, but often
your own supporters or those close to you
by conviction execute bishops,
priests, monks and nuns innocent of anything,
but simply on a coal
charge of some vague and
undefined counter-revolutionary
and if all this is up to pointless
cruelty on the part of those who present
themselves as the benefactor of humanity and as if they
themselves once suffered a lot
from cruel authorities, there is
little on you both of you before the new
Russian people, with their fraternal blood,
hiding behind various names of
indemnities, requisitions and nationalization,
you pushed them into the most open and
shameless robbery, at your instigation,
plundered and ice land, estates, factories,
houses, for a year, they robbed money, things,
furniture, clothes, first under the name of bourgeois,
they robbed wealthy people later under
the name of kulaks, they have already begun to rob and more
than a day before the hardworking peasants,
thus multiplying lower,
although you cannot help but realize that with the
ruin of the great Mongolian
individual citizens, the
people's wealth is destroyed and Astana itself is ruined,
seducing the dark and ignorant people with
the possibility of easy profit for unpunished
money in the fog whether it was his conscience that
suppressed the consciousness of sin in him,
but no matter what names
the villains hide behind, murder, violence and robbery will
always remain grave and flagrant in the
book, vengeance for sins and crimes,
you promised freedom, a great good, freedom
if it is correctly understood as
freedom from evil, not constraining others, not
turning into arbitrariness and your will, but
you did not give any kind of freedom, and
all sorts of indulgence to the base passions of
the crowd in the impunity of murders and
robberies
lies in the freedom you granted, and
whether it is freedom when no one without special
permission can spend
food for himself, he bought an apartment to
move from city to city
this Is it freedom when families, sometimes the
entire population of houses, are settled and their
property is thrown into the street and when
citizens are artificially divided into
categories
of which some are given over to starvation and
plunder, is this freedom
who cannot openly express their
opinion without fear of falling under the
charge of counter-revolution? They have already paid with
their blood blood fraud
many humble church preachers
the voice of public and state
discussions and facilitated the
muffled press except the narrow
Bolshevik strangled absolutely not
a day passes so that the
most monstrous pecks and evil blasphemy and blasphemy are placed in the organs of your press and
on the Church of Christ Korea
ministers
we
laid our hands on church
property collected by generations of
believers, we have blocked access to the
Moscow Kremlin, this is the sacred
property of all believing people,
interfere in the internal governance of the
Orthodox Church, throws out
sacred images from schools and by prohibiting the teaching of
children in schools and by believing
you are depriving them of the
spiritual food necessary for proper education and
what else I can say will not be enough for me time
to depict all the troubles that
befell our homeland, I wo
n’t talk about the disintegration of the
great and mighty Russia, but the complete
breakdown of communication routes, about an unprecedented
food supply, rumors about hunger and
cold
that threaten death in the cities, about the
lack of things necessary for farming in the
countryside,
everything is the same before everyone's eyes,
yes, we are experiencing a terrible time of your
rule and for a long time it will not be erased from the
soul of the people, darkening not the image of God and the
seal of the summer image of the beast,
the words of the prophet are coming true, many are fleeing to
evil and they are hastening to shed innocent
blood, their thoughts are wicked,
devastation and death on paths it is not our
business to judge earthly power, any
power from God would be allowed to attract
our blessing if it
were truly God's servant for the benefit of the
subordinates and it was scary not for good
deeds
1 evil ones below you who use
power to persecute their neighbors and
exterminate the innocent
Professor Ivan, our word to you, broadcast,
celebrate the anniversary of your stay
in power with a
liberation concluded, a cessation of
bloodshed,
devastation, oppression of faith, do not turn to
destruction as the establishment of order and
legality,
give the people the desired and well-deserved
rest from internecine warfare,
otherwise all righteous blood will be demanded from you,
we will shed and from the sword
will perish and you yourself, who took the sword, will quietly
Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia
[music]
famine famine of 1921 still in
many respects
remains a mystery they the harvest in the Volga region
was known in advance
at the same time in Ukraine there was a huge
harvest but long before 1
starving man died, the central newspapers predicted
numerous sacrifices
for a believer, the teachings of Christ had expired,
sharing bread was the natural
state of the churches, funeral
bells were ringing, donations were collected for the
starving, prayers were offered for their
salvation,
Tikhon’s appeal, a printed pamphlet
for Russian Christians, became a
guide to action,
people began to donate gold and food The
Orthodox Church abroad responded to the call of the Patriarch, every
day they received hundreds of
parcels for the starving,
a kind of evidence of this
is the denunciations preserved in the archives
about the correspondence of techno, received by Vagapov
with the accounts of the church without any
pressure, a reminder for not fulfilling his
duty to humanity, however, on February 23 In
1922, a decree of the All-Russian Central Committee appeared
on the confiscation of church valuables,
anticipating possible conflicts between believers and
the authorities,
Patriarch Tikhon five days later
addresses all believers with a message
and to strengthen possible assistance to the
population of the Volga region dying of hunger,
we found an opportunity to allow the church
parish council and in general donate
precious church items to the need for starvation
decorations and objects that do not have
liturgical use,
which the Orthodox population was notified about,
but what they did not realize was how great the
appetite was and what were the true
tasks of those who organized the confiscation of
valuables. The Central Election Commission issued an order on the
confiscation of all church valuables from the point of
view of not only the patriarch of
any intelligent person, this there was
sacrilege now conflicts between
believers and the authorities were simply unavoidable
[music]
in the city of Shuya an attempt to seize
religious objects led to a clash as
a result of which both sides were
killed and wounded and the next day
punitive measures were taken and
several Orthodox
churches and a synagogue were robbed
[music]
in retaliation for the resistance, on
orders from Moscow, a number of priests
were ordered to be shot; a
clash of this kind took place
in Moscow, we have materials from those
processors that were carried out, in
particular, in Moscow and the case of the
Moscow clergy where
both parishioners and church leaders were united
in resistance rendered during the confiscation of
church valuables,
after all, it was carried out in such a way that it
could not but cause indignation; in
addition, they encroached on the best feelings of the
parishioners. The post office of Karelin,
Yenisei province, the village comes to Moscow,
the leader of the republic, Comrade Ulyana, the
parishioners, among 6 thousand souls, ask you,
dear comrade, to replace the
aforesaid collection of food in the amount of
one hundred and fifty pounds of bread seventy-five
pounds of meat
15 pounds of oil valuables in our church of a
slightly poor parish for the second time we
ask not to refuse our request to the
village bright from a member of the presidium of the Central Election Commission
pom golo replacement of valuables with bread
is prohibited replacement of necessary
and highly revered items with an equivalent is prohibited
the amount of gold and silver,
the value of the items, I mean
jewelry and stone, member of the presidium of the Central Cycling Committee and
pom gol Vtsik Morgunov, the value of what was
offered as natural
products could in no way be
correlated with the values ​​​​that
were in those gold and silver and
diamonds, and so on further, which were
seized during the implementation of this
decree in connection with this, this issue
was not resolved positively, that is,
this proposal of the churchmen and parishioners,
it did not receive approval, the clash of
200 about which came from different parts of the country
fit into the political program of the
authorities in the fight against the church estimates
clash of believers in the commission for the
confiscation of porridge, it’s not laziness from in a secret
letter, a
party comrade, comrades to the hammer wrote
for us, this particular moment
is not only an
exceptionally favorable in general
the only moment when we can have 99 out of
100 chances of
smashing the enemy, that is, the church on its
head and ensuring a position that is necessary
for us for many decades, and
it is now and only now, when
people are being eaten in starved areas and
hundreds if not thousands of corpses are lying on the roads, that
we can and therefore must carry out the
confiscation of church valuables with the most
furious and merciless energy and without
stopping at the suppression of any
any resistance, the more
representatives of the reactionary clergy
and the reactionary bourgeoisie we manage to
shoot on this occasion, the better
now to temporarily teach this public a lesson so
that for several decades they do
not dare to think about any resistance. On
March 28, 1922, a
list of enemies of the Soviet regime was published,
among them the patriarch Tikhon at the end of
1922, the number of clashes between believers and
mothers amounted to about one and a half
thousand as a result of these collisions and for the
most part includes the executions that followed them,
more than 8 thousand people were killed
and Lenin’s commandment, the more we
manage to shoot, the better it was
fulfilled rigorous
information about the killed,
tortured and prisoners in prisons
by the Bolsheviks of Russian Orthodox
bishops
since 1918, the
first to be killed was Macarius Bishop of
Oryol,
then this year and the next the
first hierarch of Russia, Metropolitan of
Kiev and earlier Vladimir of St. Petersburg,
were slowly tortured, Archbishop of
Astrakhan Mitrofan and centuries and Bishop
Leonty the
man were thrown into pit and Christians
were not allowed pabriks tereh in Perm, the
most worthy archbishop Andronikos had his
cheeks cut off, his eyes gouged out,
they led him through the streets for a long time and finally drowned him in the
river, they shot the Archbishop of
Chernigov Vasily and the Perm
vicar Bishop Feofan in Tobolsk,
they tortured Archbishop Hermogenes and
they killed the whole of York by tying him to his tail
s the bishop's horses there in Russia, the
bishops and sidors of the Samara province
were impaled and so they
slowly overcame him
not death, we were the last only in 1920,
1215 priests were killed and since then
this number has doubled the terrible
list could be continued for a
long time
at this time Patriarch Tikhon has already was
under house arrest in the Donskoy monastery,
being isolated from the parishioners and a
booth
and humiliated, he nevertheless continued
to write letters in defense of those who, in
Ilyich’s opinion,
should have been shot more, but one
of the most dramatic circumstances in
the history of the city is not only that
tens of thousands died in than
innocent people is that the company for the
seizure of value succeeded this time when
they were voluntarily handed over to starve,
not only that the cultural
relics of the people were destroyed, and not even that you
were trampled on, faith in goodness and justice, the
fact is that these from its value and the
donations received were sent In
the Gokhran and People's Commissariat of Finance,
grain collected and sent abroad to Russia was
brought to the largest cities and placed
at the disposal of the state mill, and
at the same time, when famine reigned in Pavlova,
grain was sold abroad and
participants in the seizures for the needs of these shares and
huge sums were paid as bonuses
We still don’t know how
they managed all this,
but the available crumbs of information do not
cause any
special enthusiasm about this. The first attempt was
made after one of the services on the
porch of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior,
when he came out of the church after the liturgy, a
woman ran up to him and stabbed him with a
knife. but under his son's cassock
he had a wide leather belt and the knife
came off and only wounded the patriarch, a
few months later there was a trial of this
woman and she was recognized as mentally
unstable and offered to be acquitted and
offered to undergo treatment,
but the cell attendant of the patriarch and his coachman told you they
remembered that they had caught something not a woman,
but disguised as the
second, it was undertaken when he
was already under house arrest in the
monastery; however, on the way to Lubit there was
a student and the patriarch’s closest assistant,
Yakov Polozov.
Apparently the killers were not too sophisticated; they
took it to the church and, having met the first
man in a cassock, they opened fire on him
and refusal of blueberries, the shocked patriarch
ran out into the street after the murderers,
shouting what have you done, you killed a man,
undermined by numerous arrests and a
stream of silent news, the health of the patriarch
after the death of Polozov began to quickly
deteriorate on April 7, 1925, the patriarch
did not bury him where the
last years of his life passed under house
arrest in the Don Monastery a
week before Easter, poor Sundays, the
funeral was headed by Metropolitan Keat
of Krutitsky, there were many bishops at the funeral, but
there were about a million people at the funeral,
I was personally present, God
vouchsafed me to be at this funeral,
Bishop Boris Mazaisky led the funeral in all order,
sisters of mercy organized
paths with crosses with these
medical bags there was absolute peace and
quiet and there was an appeal from Bishop Paris of
Mazaia to the Orthodox people,
my dear beloved children,
now we will take out the 1st article from the
patriarch
from the temple to
many people, the police have no doors
to the monastery, closed, no one is
letting anyone in, all the responsibility
lies with me the
slightest movements and maybe
catastrophes will burn out fell in love with the flying one
and he loved you with the love shown to him by a
special person none of you will take a place until they
tell you the whole church burst into tears
two choirs were them and they need to drink they
can’t, here
love for the Holy One was especially shown shoved by no one was not
shy about tears all the details everyone cried
including me you cried you could hold on
not everyone felt who we were burying
it was a table in the church he saved our
church and saved it archpriest Valentin
Sventsitsky the day after the
death of the patriarch during a sermon in the
church said shelf of the general collapse of the
general lie of the
general betrayal of the corruption
of apostasy there was a man whom
everyone believed about whom everyone knew that
this man would not sell the truth, this is the
feeling that was in the heart of each of
us before the throne of the Russian church a
white candle was burning he had nothing
personal and what was his own chalk