The visit of the delegation of the National Council of Churches of the USA to the USSR.
Moscow.
Red Square.
Okhotny Ryad.
Gorky Street.
Central Airport.
Metropolitan Nikolai, Protopresbyter Nikolai Kolgitsky, Archimandrite Pimen, Archpriest Igor Malyushitsky, and Priest Pavel Sokolovsky greet guests from the United States.
Guests disembark the plane.
Metropolitan Nikolai greets the guests.
The head of the US delegation, Dr.
Eugene Blake, delivers a response.
The building of the Moscow Patriarchate.
Sign.
Metropolitan Nikolai greets guests.
Reception of guests by Metropolitan Nikolai.
Nikolai greets the guests (synchronously).
The head of the US delegation, Blake, delivers a response (synchronously).
Reception of guests by His Holiness Patriarch Alexy.
American guests present Alexy with a silver cup with an inscription.
Church of Pimen the Great.
An all-night vigil is being held here.
American guests are present.
The rector of the church, Archpriest Nikolai Bazhanov, welcomes the guests.
Bishop Sherrill speaks on behalf of the delegation.
Church of All Saints.
American guests in the church.
Service in the church.
Archpriest Konstantin Meshchersky welcomes the guests.
Franklin Frey delivers a response.
Building of the Holy Synod.
Interview between representatives of the Christian churches of the USSR and the USA. Present: Dr.
Blake, Nikolai, Bishop Vartan of the Armenian Church, Tours of the Lutheran Church of Latvia, Kiivit of the Lutheran Church of Estonia, and J. Zhidkov on behalf of the Baptists.
Metropolitan Nikolai speaks (synchronously).
The head of the US church delegation presents souvenirs to the heads of the USSR churches.
Church leaders pray together.
The Sovetskaya Hotel.
Guests drive in cars along Gorky Street and Teatralnaya Square.
The Bolshoi Theater.
The Kremlin from the Moskvoretsky Bridge.
A high-rise building on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment.
St.
Basil's Cathedral.
Monument to Minin and Pozharsky.
Red Square.
Sovetskaya Square.
Monument to Yu.
Pushkin Square.
Monument to Pushkin.
Arbatskaya Square.
Metro.
Guests visit the Metro – Arbatskaya station and travel in a metro car to Kievskaya station.
Moscow State University building.
Monument to Lomonosov.
Moscow State University lobby.
Assembly hall, gym.
Guests on the 18th floor of the Moscow State University building – looking at the panorama of Moscow.
Guests visiting the Tretyakov Gallery.
Guests visit GUM and the "Gifts" store on Gorky Street.
The Kremlin.
Guests visit the Kremlin - cathedrals, the Grand Kremlin Palace.
The Assembly Hall, St.
George's Hall, etc.
Guests take pictures in the Kremlin.
Views of Moscow.
Guests visit the Trinity Lavra of St.
Sergius in Zagorsk.
Guests are greeted by the abbot of the Lavra, Archimandrite Pimen.
The fortress wall of the 16th century.
Trinity Cathedral.
Guests in the church.
The monastery bell tower.
The chapel over the well.
The Assumption Cathedral.
The iconostasis of the 18th century.
Liturgy.
Archimandrite Pimen conducts the service.
Guests visit the Theological Academy.
Classes for the 2nd year.
The lecture is given by Professor A. Ivanov.
The guests are accompanied during their tour of the Academy by Rector K. Ruzhitsky.
The academic church.
In the assembly hall, the choir of the Academy students - graduates of the seminary - performs spiritual hymns (synchronously).
The head of the US delegation, Dr.
Blake, thanks Rector Ruzhitsky and the choir members.
The students bow.
An interview between the delegates and the Spiritual Academy corporation.
The guests inspect the Patriarchal chambers, the Church of the Cross of His Holiness, the iconostasis, the throne room, and the blue drawing room.
Archimandrite Pimen, the abbot of the Lavra, presents gifts to the guests.
The guests visit the rural church "In the name of the Holy Trinity" at Udelnaya station.
Archpriest John Sobolev meets the guests. I. Sobolev greets the guests.
Dr.
Blake makes a response speech.
The guests are present at the sacrament of baptism of an infant.
People in the Epiphany Cathedral.
The guests arrive in the flax.
Among those greeting are Bishop Roman of Luga, Archpriest Alexander Medvedsky, and Archpriest Nikolai Naumov.
Nevsky Prospect.
The cars with the guests enter the courtyard of the Leningrad diocese.
The guests pay a visit to Metropolitan Eleutherius.
Leningrad.
St.
Isaac's Cathedral.
Monument to Peter the Great.
Palace Square.
City House of Pioneers.
Guests visit the House of Pioneers.
Guests dance with children.
In the evening, the delegates attend a service in St.
Nicholas Cathedral.
Guests write down their impressions in the book of honored guests.
View of St.
Isaac's Cathedral in the evening.
Moscow.
Delegates at a reception with His Holiness Patriarch Alexy.
Patriarch Alexy presents gifts to the guests.
Dr.
Eugene Blake thanks them for the gifts.
Patriarch Alexy and others take pictures with the guests.
Departure of the guests.
Vnukovo airfield.
Nikolai Krutitsky speaks (synchronously).
Dr.
Blake makes a response speech.