Celebration of the millennium of Christianity in Russia
Leningrad, 14-16 June 1988
Exterior and interior views of St.
Nicholas Cathedral of the Epiphany.
The priest conducts the rite of baptism.
Metropolitan Alexy meeting at the Moscow station guests arriving on holiday.
Perron station, the train, the area near the station.
Tuple bus rides through the streets of the city.
Types Decembrists Square, Palace Embankment, St.
Isaac's Cathedral.
Participants celebrations lay wreaths at the monument to the Motherland at Piskarevsky meet with the chairman of the Leningrad City Council V. Khodyrev Mariinsky Palace, visit an art exhibition dedicated to the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia in Elaginsky palace.
Conducting solemn prayers to St.
Nicholas Cathedral of the Epiphany before the icon of St.
Nicholas, in Prince Vladimir's Cathedral before an icon of the Kazan Mother of God, in the Holy Transfiguration Cathedral, at the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery.
Procession around the chapel of St.
Xenia the Smolensk cemetery.
A solemn meeting in the hall of the hotel "Leningrad", are: Metropolitan Alexy, Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, head of the American Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Theodosius, Patriarch Ignatius IV, Metropolitan Tokyo and other Japanese.
Drawings dedicated to the baptism of Kiev.
Key words
Religion.
Architecture.
City.
City transport.
Trains and roads.
Painting.
Sculpture.
Monuments.
Exhibitions.
International relations.
Local public authorities and institutions.
Holidays.
Consumer services.