Russia's Orthodox Church marks the February Revolution of 1917
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2017 marks the centenary of a year of revolutions in Russia, and the Orthodox church is making sure Russians remember the impact of Communism on their country's religion.
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow led a service dedicated to those killed in the revolutionary violence of 1917 and an exhibition has opened commemorating those killed under the Communist Regime.
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Patriarch Kirill of Moscow leads a service in memory of those who died in the Russian revolutions of 1917 along with those killed during the Soviet regime.
The two revolutions of March and November 2017 (February and October in the Russian Julian calendar) eventually led to the creation of the Soviet Union, which aimed to eliminate religion.
Patriarch Kirill addresses the congregation at Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral, which was blown up by the Bolsheviks and rebuilt after the fall of communism.
The revolution was a great crime. And those who betrayed people and who misinformed people, who provoked people for conflicts, were not following the goals they declared. They had another agenda. And people did not even think about it. And there was a clap of thunder. How many innocent victims were there, how much sorrow was there? And the people - who won in these revolutionary conflicts, triumphed? And for what?, he says.
Almost everyone who carried out the revolution died in the following repression. Sometimes historian say to us: 'How unfair it is.' But they never determine the biographical details of those who were the victims of repressions. Often these were the people who spilled innocent blood, who tortured, who destroyed the basis of national life, who expelled the faith and demolished churches.
During the first revolution of 1917 workers flooded the streets of St. Petersburg having lost faith in the Tsarist regime.
Just a few days after the protests broke out, Russia's Tsar Nicolas II was forced to abdicate when Russian army forces joined the revolutionaries.
Then on November 7, 1917, a second revolution took place - known as the October Revolution. Bolshevik forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.
This second event led to the transformation of Russia's political system, a civil war and the eventual creation of the Soviet Union.
An exhibition in Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral is devoted to those who lost their lives in February 1917 in the name of the church - and in the Communist years that followed.
The exhibition is supported by the Russian Orthodox Church and private funds and includes photographs of Orthodox priests who were sent to the gulag - the Soviet Union's infamous system of labour camps.
There are also portraits of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, who were killed in 1918 in Yekaterinburg.
Millions of people were killed between 1936 and 1938 as a result of Stalin's purges.
Almost every family suffered losses during this time, known as the Great Terror, including the family of Patriarch Kirill.
A document on display says that Kirill's grandfather was sent to a labour camp in the north of Russia.
One visitor, Igor Kulikov, a member of the Russian Communist Party, says that despite the brutality, the Communist regime was necessary.
The new system (was brought in with the revolution), showed itself, as I think, from its best side. Some might say that people were dying, etc. But people have always died.
Another visitor, a Cossack called Petr Tranenko, who is dressed in the military uniform of Tsarist Russia, says he hopes Russia will never see a violent revolution again.
But 25 years after the Communist regime itself collapsed, Russia has not fully broken ties with its Soviet past.
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Волгоградцы почтили память жертв политических репрессий.
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По данным епархиальной комиссии по канонизации святых, в Царицыне и Сталинградской области при советской власти было репрессировано более тысячи священнослужителей. Среди них первый святой, прославленный в Волгоградской епархии, священномученик Николай Попов; местночтимый святой Калачевской епархии, священномученик Петр Никотин (расстрелян в 1937 году на Бутовском полигоне); последний настоятель Александро-Невского собора Царицына, новомученик, протоиерей Иаков Горохов; настоятель Вознесенской церкви протоирей Алексей Лебедев, священнослужители Казанского собора Царицына — протоиерей Алексей Могилин и протодиакон Тимофей Акимов и сотни других имен.
Всероссийский день памяти жертв советских репрессий — 30 октября официально установлен в 1991 году. В этот день имена репрессированных традиционно читают у Соловецкого камня и на Бутовском полигоне в Москве, в Петербурге и Екатеринбурге, в других регионах России — у памятников жертвам политических репрессий, в местах массовых расстрелов, а также там, где стояли раньше взорванные и разрушенные в советское время храмы.
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Alexei Nikolaevich of the House of Romanov, was the Tsesarevich and heir apparent to the throne of the Russian Empire. He was the youngest child and only son of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. He was born with hemophilia; his mother's reliance on the starets Grigori Rasputin to treat the disease helped bring about the end of the Romanov dynasty. After the February Revolution of 1917, he and his family were sent into internal exile in Tobolsk, Siberia. He was murdered alongside his parents, four sisters, and three retainers during the Russian Civil War by order of the Bolshevik government, though rumors that he had survived persisted until the 2007 discovery of his and one of his sisters' remains. The family was formally interred on 17 July 1998—the eightieth anniversary of the murder—and were canonized as passion bearers by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.
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Russia's Orthodox Church marks the February Revolution of 1917
(20 Feb 2017) LEAD-IN:
2017 marks the centenary of a year of revolutions in Russia, and the Orthodox church is making sure Russians remember the impact of Communism on their country's religion.
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow led a service dedicated to those killed in the revolutionary violence of 1917 and an exhibition has opened commemorating those killed under the Communist Regime.
STORY-LINE:
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow leads a service in memory of those who died in the Russian revolutions of 1917 along with those killed during the Soviet regime.
The two revolutions of March and November 2017 (February and October in the Russian Julian calendar) eventually led to the creation of the Soviet Union, which aimed to eliminate religion.
Patriarch Kirill addresses the congregation at Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral, which was blown up by the Bolsheviks and rebuilt after the fall of communism.
The revolution was a great crime. And those who betrayed people and who misinformed people, who provoked people for conflicts, were not following the goals they declared. They had another agenda. And people did not even think about it. And there was a clap of thunder. How many innocent victims were there, how much sorrow was there? And the people - who won in these revolutionary conflicts, triumphed? And for what?, he says.
Almost everyone who carried out the revolution died in the following repression. Sometimes historian say to us: 'How unfair it is.' But they never determine the biographical details of those who were the victims of repressions. Often these were the people who spilled innocent blood, who tortured, who destroyed the basis of national life, who expelled the faith and demolished churches.
During the first revolution of 1917 workers flooded the streets of St. Petersburg having lost faith in the Tsarist regime.
Just a few days after the protests broke out, Russia's Tsar Nicolas II was forced to abdicate when Russian army forces joined the revolutionaries.
Then on November 7, 1917, a second revolution took place - known as the October Revolution. Bolshevik forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.
This second event led to the transformation of Russia's political system, a civil war and the eventual creation of the Soviet Union.
An exhibition in Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral is devoted to those who lost their lives in February 1917 in the name of the church - and in the Communist years that followed.
The exhibition is supported by the Russian Orthodox Church and private funds and includes photographs of Orthodox priests who were sent to the gulag - the Soviet Union's infamous system of labour camps.
There are also portraits of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, who were killed in 1918 in Yekaterinburg.
Millions of people were killed between 1936 and 1938 as a result of Stalin's purges.
Almost every family suffered losses during this time, known as the Great Terror, including the family of Patriarch Kirill.
A document on display says that Kirill's grandfather was sent to a labour camp in the north of Russia.
One visitor, Igor Kulikov, a member of the Russian Communist Party, says that despite the brutality, the Communist regime was necessary.
The new system (was brought in with the revolution), showed itself, as I think, from its best side. Some might say that people were dying, etc. But people have always died.
Another visitor, a Cossack called Petr Tranenko, who is dressed in the military uniform of Tsarist Russia, says he hopes Russia will never see a violent revolution again.
But 25 years after the Communist regime itself collapsed, Russia has not fully broken ties with its Soviet past.
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In this eight-part travel series, the Dutch journalist and author Jelle Brandt Corstius travels through Russia and visits the neighbor countries Latvia, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. What image do the Russians have of their neighbors and vice versa? What are the relations between powerful Russia and the other former Soviet republics? And how do the countries around Russia treat their Russian inhabitants? A series about propaganda and identity.
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In Russia media freedom seems not exist anymore. Television is in the hands of the Kremlin and critical journalists are shot dead. Corruption, mismanagement and a dirty war in the Caucasus – news that are not reported on television. Since the annexation of the Crimea it has become even worse: Not only is the truth not told, but replaced by news that belong to a propaganda strategy.
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90th anniversary of assassination of Romanovs, service, voxpops, file
Moscow - July 16, 2008
1. Wide exterior of Christ the Saviour Cathedral
2. Close-up of Orthodox cross
3. Wide of cathedral interior
4. Wide of service
5. Close-up of icon showing the Russian Imperial family as martyrs
6. Mid of priest and congregation
7. Wide of ceremony
8. Mid of worshippers crossing themselves
9. Mid of girl by candles
10. Close-up of icon and candle
11. Wide of the Kremlin
12. Wide of people walking
13. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Vox pop, Boris, Moscow resident
It's just the process of power appropriation, so heads are rolling. I don't see any point in repenting of that. There is a good saying - children can't be responsible for what their parents have done. It was done by particular people and not by the whole nation.
14. Wide of people walking
15. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Vox pop, Emiliya, Moscow resident:
They will be recognised as authentic only when there will be answers to the questions of the church to the investigators. There hasn't been any answer yet, so we can't recognise them as authentic.
FILE: Exact location and date unknown
16. Various of Tsar Nicholas II and his family
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17. Set up of historian Edvard Radzinsky
18. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Edvard Radzinsky, Russian historian:
The grave that we are trying to 'close' now is a special one. It's a mystic grave, it's not just the grave of the royal family. It's a symbolic grave of the Revolution.
19. Cutaway of books by Radzinsky
20. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Edvard Radzinsky, Russian historian
This day must be a day of all-nation repentance of what happened - not only the murder of the royal family but also of all that life in lies for so many years, of all that period when one part of the country went to prison camps and the other one applauded that, when people were detained for their words. There is a lot to repent.
21. Cutaway of icons
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Russians attended church ceremonies on Wednesday to mark 90 years since the last tsar and his family were murdered by the Bolsheviks, while investigators reaffirmed that remains unearthed last year were those of Nicholas II's only son and a daughter.
Russian Orthodox Churches across the country were holding services and processions on Wednesday and Thursday, some overnight, to commemorate the canonised tsar and his wife and children, who were shot dead in a basement in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg early on July 17, 1918.
Russian investigators marked the anniversary by repeating their confirmation that bone and tooth fragments found in a shallow grave in Yekaterinburg a year ago are those of the tsar's 13-year-old heir, Crown Prince Alexei, and one of his daughters, Grand Duchess Maria.
The Investigative Committee said in June that the remains were those of Alexei and Maria. The finding is based on DNA and other forensic testing carried out by laboratories in Russia, the United States and other countries.
Nicholas II abdicated in 1917 as revolutionary fervour swept Russia, and he and his family were detained. They were shot by a Bolshevik firing squad in the basement of the house where they were being held in Yekaterinburg, in the Ural Mountains 1,500 kilometres (900 miles) east of Moscow.
The remains of Nicholas, his wife Empress Alexandra and three daughters including the youngest, Anastasia, were unearthed in Yekaterinburg in 1991 - the year the Soviet Union collapsed - and later reburied in the imperial capital, St. Petersburg.
The remains of Alexei and Maria were not found, fuelling speculation that the haemophiliac heir might have somehow survived and escaped. The remains were discovered last July in the woods about 70 metres (yards) from the site where the remains of the rest of the family were found.
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The canonization of the Romanovs was the elevation to sainthood of the last Imperial Family of Russia - Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei - by the Russian Orthodox Church. The family was killed by the Bolsheviks on 17 July 1918 at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg; the site of their execution is now beneath the altar of the Church on Blood. They are variously designated as new martyrs by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and as passion bearers by the church inside Russia.
The family was canonized on 1 November 1981 as new martyrs by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad. They were canonized along with their servants, who had been killed along with them. The canonized servants were their court physician, Yevgeny Botkin; their footman Alexei Trupp; their cook, Ivan Kharitonov; and Alexandra's maid, Anna Demidova. Also canonized were two servants killed in September 1918, lady in waiting Anastasia Hendrikova and tutor Catherine Adolphovna Schneider. All were canonized as victims of oppression by the Bolsheviks. The Russian Orthodox Church did not canonize the servants, two of whom were not Russian Orthodox: Trupp was Roman Catholic, and Schneider was Lutheran.
Alexandra's sister, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna, who was murdered by the Bolsheviks on 18 July 1918, was canonized on 1 November 1981 as New-Martyr Elizabeth by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, along with Prince Ioann Konstantinovich of Russia, Prince Igor Konstantinovich of Russia, Prince Konstantine Konstantinovich of Russia, Grand Duke Sergey Mikhaylovich of Russia, and Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley, and Elizabeth's faithful companion, Sister Varvara Yakovleva, who were all killed with her. Fyodor Remez, Grand Duke Sergei's personal secretary, who was killed as well, was not canonized. They are known as the Martyrs of Alapaevsk.
In 1992, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna and Varvara Yakovleva were canonized as New-Martyr Elizabeth and New-Martyr Barbara by the Moscow Patriarchate. The grand dukes and others killed with them were not canonized.
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Nicholas II of Russia | Wikipedia audio article
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Nicholas II of Russia
00:03:16 1 Family background
00:06:34 2 Tsarevich
00:09:51 3 Engagement, accession and marriage
00:13:43 4 Reign
00:13:52 4.1 Coronation
00:17:55 4.2 Initiatives in foreign affairs
00:18:52 4.3 Ecclesiastical affairs
00:19:40 4.4 Russo-Japanese War
00:22:47 4.5 Anti-Jewish pogroms of 1903–1906
00:23:48 4.6 Bloody Sunday (1905)
00:28:08 4.7 1905 Revolution
00:31:49 4.8 Relationship with the Duma
00:41:58 4.9 Tsarevich Alexei's illness and Rasputin
00:44:33 4.10 European affairs
00:46:48 4.11 Tercentenary
00:47:26 4.12 First World War
00:56:40 4.13 Collapse
01:01:25 4.13.1 Abdication (1917)
01:04:41 4.14 Imprisonment
01:08:10 4.15 Execution
01:11:32 5 Identification
01:13:22 6 Funeral
01:14:12 7 Sainthood
01:16:19 8 Assessment
01:19:54 9 Ancestry
01:20:03 10 Titles, styles, honours and arms
01:20:14 10.1 Titles and styles
01:21:29 10.2 Honours
01:22:12 10.2.1 National
01:22:39 10.2.2 Foreign
01:23:30 10.3 Arms
01:23:38 11 Children
01:23:47 12 Wealth
01:25:01 13 Documentaries and films
01:25:37 14 See also
01:25:53 15 Note
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Nicholas II or Nikolai II (Russian: Николай II Алекса́ндрович, tr. Nikolai II Aleksandrovich; 18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1868 – 17 July 1918), known as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer in the Russian Orthodox Church, was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 2 March 1917. His reign saw the fall of the Russian Empire from one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse. He was given the nickname Nicholas the Bloody or Vile Nicholas by his political adversaries due to the Khodynka Tragedy, anti-Semitic pogroms, Bloody Sunday, the violent suppression of the 1905 Russian Revolution, the execution of political opponents, and his perceived responsibility for the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905). Soviet historians portrayed Nicholas as a weak and incompetent leader whose decisions led to military defeats and the deaths of millions of his subjects.Russia was defeated in the 1904–1905 Russo-Japanese War which saw the annihilation of the reinforcing Russian Baltic Fleet after being sent on its round-the-world cruise at the naval Battle of Tsushima, off the coasts of Korea and Japan, the loss of Russian influence over Manchuria and Korea, and the Japanese annexation to the north of South Sakhalin Island. The Anglo-Russian Entente was designed to counter the German Empire's attempts to gain influence in the Middle East, but it also ended the Great Game of confrontation between Russia and the United Kingdom. When all Russian diplomatic efforts to prevent the First World War (1914–1918) failed, Nicholas approved the Imperial Russian Army mobilization on 30 July 1914 which gave Imperial Germany formal grounds to declare war on Russia on 1 August 1914. An estimated 3.3 million Russians were killed in the First World War. The Imperial Russian Army's severe losses, the High Command's incompetent management of the war efforts, and lack of food and supplies on the home front were all leading causes of the fall of the House of Romanov.
Following the February Revolution of 1917, Nicholas abdicated on behalf of himself and his son and heir, the Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich. He and his family were imprisoned and transferred to Tobolsk in late summer 1917. On 30 April 1918, Nicholas, Alexandra, and their daughter Maria were handed over to the local Ural Soviet council in Ekaterinburg (renamed Sverdlovsk during the Soviet era); the rest of the captives followed on 23 May. Nicholas and his family were executed by their Bolshevik guards on the night of 16/17 July 1918. The remains of the imperial family were later found, exhumed, identified and re-interred with elaborate State and Church ceremony in St. Petersburg on 17 July 1998 – 80 years later.
In 1981, Nicholas, his wife, and their children were recognized as martyrs by the Russian Orthodox Church Outsid ...
The GULAG - Matthew Raphael Johnson
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Покаяние и вера Repentance and Faith #5 -Eng- Russian Sermon by Paul Washer- Gospel part 5
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1. God's Purpose...Peace and Life
God loves you and wants you to know Him so He can fill you with peace and give you real life -- forever.
The Bible says::
Because of our Lord Jesus Christ, we live at peace with God (Romans 5:1)
God loved the people of this world so much that He gave His only son, so that everyone who has faith in Him will have eternal life and never die (John 3:16).
Jesus said:
I came so that everyone would have life, and have it in its fullest (John 10:10).
Since God planned for us to have peace and real life right now, why are so many people hurting or angry inside?
2. Our Problem...Separation From God- God created us in His own image so we can know Him personally and have a joy-filled life. He did not make us as robots to automatically love and obey Him, but gave us a will and a freedom of choice. Since the beginning of time, we have chosen to disobey God and go our own willful way. We still make this choice today. This results in separation from God and ends in misery.
The Bible says:
All of us have sinned and fallen short of God's holiness (Romans 3:23).
The result of unforgiven sin is death. But God's gift is eternal life given by Jesus Christ our Lord (Romans 6:23).
The Bible says that disobeying God results in being separated from Him.
Our attempts can never unite us with God. Through the ages, people have tried many ways to bridge this gap and reach God -- without success.
The Bible says:
Adam sinned, and that sin brought death into the world. Now everyone has sinned, and so everyone must die (Romans 5:12).
You may think you are on the right road and still end up dead (Proverbs 14:12).
There is only one way to reach God.
3. God's Remedy...The Cross
God's Purpose... Peace and Life
Jesus Christ is the only answer to this problem. He is the only One who can bring us back to God. He died on the Cross and rose from the grave, paying the penalty for our sin and bridging the gap between God and people.
The Bible says:
There is only one God, and Christ Jesus is the only one who can bring us to God (1 Timothy 2:5). Christ died once for our sins. An innocent person died for those who are guilty. Christ did this to bring you to God (1 Peter 3:18). But God showed how much He loved us by having Christ die for us, even though we were sinful (Romans 5:8).
God has provided the only way -- we must make the choice.
4. Our Response...Give Ourselves to Christ
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Our Response... Give Ourselves to Christ
We must trust Jesus Christ to forgive our sins and determine to obey Him for the rest of our lives. That way we can know God and find peace again.
The Bible says:
So you will be saved, if you honestly say, Jesus is Lord, and if you believe with all your heart that God raised Him from death. God will accept you and save you, if you truly believe this (Romans 10:9-10).
Is there any good reason why you cannot turn your life over to Jesus Christ right now?
How to give your life to Christ:
1. Admit you are a sinner and need forgiveness.
2. Believe that Jesus Christ died for you on the Cross and rose from the grave.
3. Through prayer, confess that Jesus Christ is the only way to God and commit to live for Him for the rest of your life
God Bless You
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Mexico Travel Attractions - Guadalajara Cathedral
Take a tour of Guadalajara Cathedral in Mexico -- part of the World's Greatest Attractions travel video series by GeoBeats.
This Mexican historic landmark was first built in 1541 but was severely damaged thirty three years later from shots fired into the air by neighbors celebrating mass; the shots fell onto the thatched roof and set it ablaze.
The Cathedral of Guadalajara was acknowledged by Pope Pius the twelfth and has been hence forth ranked as a minor basilica.
The exterior of the Cathedral is a worthwhile excursion on its own, but the truly breathtaking beauty can be discovered inside.
Within these hallowed halls lie nine alters dedicated to several Patron Saints.
In addition to its alters, this Cathedral is home to the Relics of St. Innocent, the vestiges of three cardinals and the heart of a former Mexican president.
Throughout the years, the Cathedral has suffered through many earthquakes which toppled its towers; its consistent rebuilding is a testament to its importance to the community of Guadalajara.
Keynote by Journalist, Author and Activist Masha Gessen
With The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, which traces the lives of intellectuals following the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of Vladimir Putin, journalist and author Masha Gessen won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. As the keynote speaker for a symposium hosted by Russia Studies and the Dean Rusk Program, Gessen offers insights into what she has called Russia’s “all-out war” on LGBT people in the country. Gessen’s family moved to the United States in 1981 — she holds U.S and Russian citizenship.