I am with you .... (1991)

Types of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.

Procession of the bishops to the Local Council for the election of the Patriarch of Moscow.

Service in the temple.

Election of Metropolitan Alexy Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, reading the decision of the Council, the person of the bishops.

The bishops put their signatures under the decision of the Council.

View of the icon of the Savior.

The newly elected Patriarch Alexy II communes with parishioners, behind the scenes his thoughts on the sacrament of the Eucharist sound.

Types of part of Tallinn (from above).

Wooden Orthodox Church of Our Lady of Kazan in Tallinn, the internal view of the temple.

Patriarch Alexy II, while serving in the church, worships the icon of the Kazan Mother of God.

A woman with a child comes to the icon.

View of the Moscow Kremlin and the cathedrals (from above).

Solemn service on the territory of the Kremlin with the participation of the Patriarch, the metropolitans kiss the cross.

Patriarch Alexy II with the procession ascends the steps of the temple during the holiday, followed by the parishioners.

Children of Tomsk meet Alexis II in the temple, the boy gives a welcome speech and presents a gift to the Patriarch.

Alexy II blesses the children.

Internal view of the temple during the festive service.

Alexy II during the service.

panorama of the Moscow Kremlin, view of the Spassky Tower.

The procession with the icon of Our Lady of Kazan goes to Red Square.

Alexy II participates in the procession.

Types of Red Square during the procession.

Service on the Red Square.

Mayor of Moscow Georgy Popov and Boris Yeltsin. stand with candles in their hands.

Persons of bishops.

Alexis II immerses the cross in holy water.

Priests in one of the monasteries are attached to the icons.

Patriarch Alexy II speaks with the archimandrite of one of the monasteries about the shortage of priests and abbots of monasteries on the ground, about the restoration of the destroyed monasteries (synchronously).

Alexy II during a visit to one of the women's monasteries.

Service in the monastery church.

Alexy II wand for the new abbess of the monastery, blesses for service.

View of the territory of one of the monasteries during the festive service (from above).

Alexy II at the Local Council during the canonization of the new Saints of God holds in the hands of the icon of one of them.

Alexy II is alone in the temple.

Newsreel of 1943: Patriarch Sergius during the festive service.

The arrested priests are escorted along the city street in 1919.

Panorama of one of the monasteries in the 1920s.

The novice goes through the monastery yard.

Photos of Patriarch Sergius.

Alexy II stands at the window in the church, the face of the Patriarch.

A newsreel of 1941-1943: burning houses, ruptures of shells, people are fleeing from a burning village.

Weeping old people.

The wounded Red Army men.

Refugees are moving along the road.

Kind of burning settlements (from above).

Metropolitan Sergius talks with the bishops.

The woman blesses the icon of the commander of the Red Army.

One of the units of the Red Army passes through the liberated village in the suburbs, an elderly woman baptizes passing Red Army men.

Nuns help the wounded Red Army men go.

The priest blesses the passing Red Army unit.

Icon of St.

George the Victorious.

Patriarch Alexy II commemorates his predecessors.

The nun goes to the monastery.

View of the gate church of the Pyukhtitsky Assumption Convent.

The abbess of the monastery tells about his visit to Alexy II in childhood (synchronously).

Women lay flowers on the monastery square.

Solemn service in the courtyard of Pyukhtitsky Assumption Convent.

The arrival of Alexy II to the service.

Meeting Alexis II in the Pyukhtitsky monastery, priests kiss the Patriarchal cross.

Alexy II, accompanied by priests, walks the territory of the monastery, blesses the parishioners.

Alexis II is enclosed in the icon of the Assumption of Our Lady.

The view of the monastery temples.

Nuns embroider the image of the Virgin.

The nuns are on haymaking.

Types of temples and chapels of the Valaam Monastery on the islands.

View of the avenue in the forest.

Panorama of the metochion of the Valaam Monastery (from above).

Photos of the monks Valaam late 1930's.

Panorama of the destroyed iconostasis of the water from the temples of the Valaam monastery, damaged frescoes.

Restoration of monastic buildings.

The ruined monastery cemetery.

Cross in the forest.

The procession with the Holy Relics of the Blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky, Alexis II goes to the ark with the relics.

Alexy II in the church gives a sermon on St.

Alexander Nevsky before the prayer.

General view of the procession in honor of the beginning of the restoration of the Alexander Nevsky church.

View of the temple in the scaffolding.

View of the Palace Square in Leningrad.

Panorama of a part of the gallery of portraits of the heroes of the war of 1812 in the Hermitage.

Portrait of General Ridiger FV, one of the ancestors of Alexy II.

Photos of the parents Alexis II.

Photo of Alexis II in his youth.

Internal view of the church of the Leningrad Theological Seminary.

Group photos of seminary teachers.

Corridors and the interior of the seminary.

A lesson in choral spiritual singing.

Seminarists are preparing for classes.

Alexy II talks with the seminarians about their daily needs while attending the seminary.

View of a rural church in winter.

The priest drowns the stove in the temple.

Service in the temple.

The parish priest conducts the lesson of the Law of God, teaches the children the prayer "Our Father".

Alexy II speaks about the need for the revival of charity and charity, the role of the new parochial schools in this matter (synchronously).

The view of one of the cathedrals of the Ioannovsky Monastery.

The nun at the icon of John of Kronstadt tells about the restoration of the monastery (synchronously), clearing the cathedral from garbage.

View of the Kazan Cathedral in Leningrad.

Items of church utensils and services in the storerooms of the Museum of the History of Religion.

Flowers in the place of hiding the relics of the Monk Seraphim of Sarov.

Meeting the relics of Seraphim of Sarov in Moscow, people go for the ark with relics.

Solemn service in the temple when putting the relics in cancer.

Alexy II reads a sermon about the life of Seraphim of Sarov (synchronously), an icon and images of Seraphim of Sarov.

Alexy II during his service on the day of the laying of the Orthodox Cathedral in Tomsk.

Abandoned graves of prisoners in the forest, on one of the wooden crosses a candle burns.

Kind of an abandoned camp (from above).

Internal view of the destroyed barrack.

Candles on the barrack bunks.

Portraits of repressed clergymen.

The funeral candles are on canon.

Alexy II serves a requiem for the murdered priests in Tomsk, the faces of the parishioners.

The video part of the second part, without sound.

Alexy II speaks about martyrs and confessors in the Russian Orthodox Church of the 20th century, lists their names and merits (synchronously).

Types of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.

The face of a monk.

The imperishable power of the Kiev Caves Saints.

Monks with candles in their hands walk along the corridor past a cancer with relics.

Interior view of the Cathedral of St.

Sophia of Kiev, images of saints in the hay of the cathedral.

Monument to Prince Vladimir over the Dnieper.

Alexy II on the banks of the Dnieper, accompanied by the abbot of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.

External and internal views of St.

Sophia Cathedral.

Alexy II blesses Ukrainian church hierarchs, holds service in St.

Sophia Cathedral.

Moleben at the entrance to the church closed for worship in Kiev.

Religious procession around the temple.

Panorama of the Patriarchal Prayer in Kiev, faces of children and Schemonchas.

Alexy II serves a moleben, holds out a cross for kissing.

View of one of the Ukrainian Orthodox churches.

Parishioners climb the steps of the Pochaev Lavra.

Alexy II serves the festive service on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the Pochaev Lavra, the inner view of the main cathedral of the laurels during the service.

Alexy II gives the abbot the laurels to the icon of the Vladimir Mother of God.

Alexy II speaks about the terrible years experienced by the Russian Orthodox Church in the 20th century, about the deepening of the split with the Russian Church Abroad (synchronously).

The arrival of Alexis II in Jerusalem.

Alexy II and the Patriarch of Jerusalem go to the temple.

Alexy II serves as a festive service.

Internal views of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

Alexy II holds services in the temples during his stay in Jerusalem, the internal view of the church with the place of the establishment of the Cross of the Lord on Calvary.

The worship of the Patriarch of Moscow Calvary of God.

Alexy II wears vestments and miter after the adoption of the Patriarch's order.

Newsreel of 1945: Patriarch Alexy I puts on his vestments after taking the dignity, serves a solemn prayer service.

Patriarch Alexy II serves a solemn moleben after the adoption of the dignity, the course of the prayer.

Alexy II puts on regalia and a ceremonial robe, sits down on the Patriarchal throne in the church, a fragment of the Gospel sounds behind the scenes (synchronously).

Alexy II communes, blesses those present in the temple.

The image of the Savior on the wall of the temple.