Church and ecology (1992)

Icon of the Mother of God.

Interior view of the Church of St.

George the Victorious in Kizhach (panorama), performing the rite of baptism of an infant.

The face of the infant.

The priest walks around the font with a censer in his hand.

The face of the Mother of God on the icon.

The sacrament of anointing a newly baptized infant.

The priest performs the rite of baptism, lowers the girl into the font three times, and gives her to her godmother for baptism.

The girl is in the arms of the godmother.

The priest puts a cross and a christening gown on the girl.

The face of the Crucifixion in the church.

Anointing of the newly baptized girl.

The face of the Mother of God on the icon.

Tonsure of the newly baptized.

Performing the rite of churching.

The face of the Mother of God on the icon.

View of part of the Church of St.

George the Victorious, bells on the belfry.

The rector, Father Pallady, at the church.

Reflection of the Orthodox church in the water, view of the church.

A patient on a stretcher in Sklifosovsky Hospital.

Orderlies carry a stretcher with a patient into a ward.

Patients are lying on beds in wards, faces of patients.

Hands and face of one of the patients.

One of the patients is sitting on a bed with an empty mug in his hands.

Patients-failed suicides on beds in wards.

A young man is sitting by the window, looking out onto the street.

The face of the young man, a panorama of a barred window.

One of the patients on a bed, a New Testament in the hands of the patient.

A woman is standing by an open window of the ward, covered with bars, looking out onto the street.

The sun is shining through the branches of a tree, a panorama of a part of the hospital park.

Panorama of a part of the park, summer vegetation in the park.

Father Sergius (Kosov), accompanied by a doctor, is walking along the corridor of the hospital.

Father Sergius in the ward talks to patients who have made an unsuccessful suicide attempt, explains to people the reasons for suicide, about the inseparable connection between human life and eternity, about everyone's understanding of the meaning of life (synchronously and off-screen), faces of patients listening to Father Sergius.

Patients listen to Father Sergius (panorama), Father Sergius continues his soul-saving conversation (synchronously and off-screen).

One of the patients asks permission to read a poem he wrote.

Father Sergius's face during a conversation with patients.

One of the patients reads poems he wrote to Father Sergius (synchronously).

Father Sergius expresses his opinion about the poems and approves of them (unsynchronously).

The patient tells Father Sergius about the reasons for his repeated suicides, about his internal state during those tragic moments, and asks Father Sergius for confession (synchronously and off-screen).

The face of the Mother of God on the iconostasis.

Parishioners in the church light candles during the service (panorama).

Service in the church, interior views of the church (panorama).

Trace of the setting sun on the surface of the water.

View of part of the seashore on the Solovetsky Islands, stones on the shore.

Solovetsky landscapes, flora of the Solovetsky Islands.

Views of the Solovetsky Monastery (panorama).

Icon depicting Saints Zosima and Savvaty.

Fragments of the icon, depiction of the lives of Zosima and Savvaty.

View of one of the temples of the monastery, the dome of the temple.

View from a narrow window opening of one of the towers of the monastery wall.

Panorama of part of the walls and towers of the monastery.

View of part of the gallery on one of the walls, view from the loophole.

A monk walks along the territory of the monastery, panorama of part of the territory (above).

View of one of the monastery temples.

The building of the fraternal building on the territory of the monastery, priests and monks walk past the building.

The building of the Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Lord in scaffolding.

Panorama of part of the monastery (above), a cross on one of the domes.

Patriarch Alexy II performs a festive service in the church, walks around the parishioners with a censer in his hand.

Alexy II in the church during the service.

One of the canals dug by monks on Solovki, the banks of the canal lined with stones.

View of one of the canals.

View of the monastery buildings on Bolshoy Zayatsky Island of the Solovetsky Archipelago.

Panorama of part of the stone ship pier, wooden chapel on the shore.

View of the chapel, dome with a cross.

Panorama of the Solovetsky Monastery at sunset.

Icon depicting St.

Philip (Kolychev).

Panorama of part of the ancient stone wall, vegetation between the stones, a through cave.

Icon of St.

Philip, view of part of the neglected monastery territory through the bars.

The face of the Mother of God on the icon.

Portraits of Father Sergius (Bulgakov), a religious philosopher and theologian.

Summer Russian landscapes.

Image of the Church of St.

Sergius in Livny on a postcard from the early 20th century.

Photograph of Sergei Bulgakov as a child with his parents.

Portrait of Sergei Bulgakov during his studies at Moscow University.

View of the main staircase of the Lomonosov Moscow State University Library on Mokhovaya Street (from above).

Interior view of one of the library halls (panorama).

Covers of editions of Marxist literature of the early 20th century and works of S. Bulgakov.

Interiors of the library premises.

Moscow State University students during classes in the library, a girl studies the works of S.N. Bulgakov.

Photo portraits of Father Sergius (Bulgakov), after his ordination to the priesthood in 1918 and in the following years.

View of the building of the Trinity Cathedral of the Moscow St.

Daniel Monastery.

Circular panorama of the territory of the St.

Daniel Monastery.

View of the monastery square.

Holy gates of the monastery.

Parishioners on the territory of the monastery.

View of the Gate Church and part of the monastery square.

View of part of the Trinity Cathedral and the building of the Church of the Holy Fathers of the Seven Ecumenical Councils, domes with crosses.

Painting depicting S.N. Bulgakov during a conversation with Father Pavel Florensky.

Bare branches of autumn trees.

Photograph of Father Sergius.

The face of the Mother of God on the icon.

A girl with a burning candle in her hand.

Parishioners light candles during a church service.

Faces of praying parishioners.

Spring landscapes of the Smolensk region, snow melting in the sun.

Sprouting flowers, landscape and view of the estate of Princess Maria Tenisheva in Talashkino.

Photograph of Tenisheva walking her dog.

Photographs of guests of the estate.

Photo portrait of Tenisheva.

View of the house - "Teremok" in the museum estate in Talashkino, created by the artist Malyutin.

Interiors of the "Teremok" rooms, examples of folk art and decorations in the folk style in the museum exposition.

Items of decorative and applied art and folk musical instruments in the exposition of the museum in Talashkino, fragments of carved decorations.

Mosaic icon on the wall.

Picturesque portrait of Princess Tenisheva.

Alley in the park of the estate.

Panorama of part of the park in summer.

The sun shines through the trunks of trees.

Painting with the image of Tenisheva.

Photograph of the artist painting a portrait of Tenisheva.

Photographs of Tenisheva in the company of artists and sculptors.

Photo portrait of Tenisheva.

Views of the Church of the Holy Spirit built by Tenisheva in Talashkino.

Cross on the dome of the church, the face of Christ the Savior.

Interior views of the church, converted into a grain storage facility after 1917, bare walls, no iconostasis (360-degree panorama).

Chippen plaster on one of the walls.

Sketches of the church frescoes by N. Roerich.

Photo portrait of Tenisheva.

Interior view of a neglected church (panorama).

Broken stone sarcophagi in the plundered crypt of the church, interior view of the crypt.

The face of Christ the Savior on the facade of the church.

Patriarch Alexy II during a service in the Epiphany Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin.

Alexy II blesses the praying parishioners.

The face of the Mother of God on an icon.

Father Sergius, rector of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in the village of Florovskoye, Yaroslavl Region, walks past a dilapidated church.

Panorama of the village cemetery, Father Sergius performing a requiem at the grave of Archpriest Nikolai, a censer in the priest's hand, a boy's face.

A peeling dome on the Church of the Resurrection of Christ.

Views of the dilapidated church.

Father Sergius conducting a service in the dilapidated church.

Interior views of the church.

Panorama of part of the wall with crumbling plaster and part of the surviving fresco.

Fragments of the surviving wall frescoes with peeling paint.

Parishioners in the church, remnants of frescoes on the vaults of the church (panorama).

Fragments of the surviving frescoes.

Father Sergius reading a prayer, kneeling.

Parishioners during the service.

Father Sergius and his grandson Alyosha walk to the frozen river.

Father Sergius cuts a hole in the ice.

Father Sergius scoops water from an ice hole with a bucket.

Father Sergius and his grandson carry firewood and place it on a sled.

Father Sergius and his grandson carry firewood on a sled.

View of the church building, peeling domes with crosses.

Father Sergius and Alyosha heat the stove in the church.

A woman at the icon in the church during the service.

Women take turns kissing the cross before the end of the church service, Father Sergius performs the glorification of St.

Martyr Valentina.

A woman makes the sign of the cross.

Parishioners in the church with burning candles in their hands (panorama).

Parishioners light candles during the service.

Children's faces.

Father Sergius and his grandson Alyosha walk along a snow-covered road.