The Russian Orthodox Church today (1968)

B/w: Dnieper River – general (with high-altitude light, evening, summer).

Sculpture of Prince Vladimir the Equal-to-the-Apostles, during whose reign the baptism of Rus' took place in 988 and the Russian Orthodox Church was founded, on Vladimirskaya Hill in Kyiv – general, zoom in, short.

Monument to the Millennium of Russia in Novgorod – panorama, general.

Fragments of the monument – sculptural figure of Prince Vladimir – medium, short from different angles.

Sculptures of warriors, saints, etc. – short, medium.

Color: Kalinin Avenue; an ancient church next to a modern high-rise building – general (summer).

Novodevichy Convent; a church in the convent – general.

A small ancient church on Lenin Hills against the backdrop of the Moscow State University building – general.

Kalinin Avenue, taken from the Ukraine Hotel – general.

Domes of the Novgorod church – Wed, CR. Believers at the church in Zagorsk, Moscow region – Wed.

Pskov-Pechersky Monastery – Wed.

Icon of the Crucifixion of Christ.

Religious service in the church of the Pskov-Pechersky Monastery – general.

Church utensils, burning candles – Wed, CR. Icon of the Mother of God - Wed.

Kissing the icon in the church.

A woman with a child in her arms praying in the church – Wed.

An old man with a burning candle in his hands at a prayer service – Wed.

Icon of St.

Paul - Wed.

Icon of Seraphim of Sarov - Wed.

People in the church at prayer – Wed.

Novodevichy Convent – general (winter).

Church in Leningrad – Wed (winter).

St.

Vladimir Church in Kyiv – Wed (winter).

Church in Transcarpathia – general (summer).

Rural church in a Siberian village near Irkutsk – general (winter).

Rural churches in the Moscow region – general, medium (winter).

The ancient spiritual center - the Trinity Lavra of St.

Sergius – medium, arrival, Poland.

Epiphany Cathedral in Moscow (Yelokhovo Church) – short (winter).

Icon of the Savior in the church - short.

His Holiness Patriarch Alexy of Moscow and All Rus', sacred archimandrite of the Trinity Lavra of St.

Sergius, celebrates the service on the day of the Nativity of Christ in the Epiphany Cathedral (synchronously).

Believers in the church during the service – different.

Icon of the Nativity of Christ in the church – medium, departure.

Icon of the Mother of God - short (choral singing in the church accompanies the service).

Metropolitan Pimen celebrates the service – short, medium.

Metropolitan Nikodim celebrates a service in a church – Poland, cf.

Gospel – Poland, cr.

Metropolitan John serves in the Yaroslavl church – Poland, common.

Believers during a service – cf.

Bishop Juvenaly prays before an icon in a church.

Young church ministers during a service.

Bishop Juvenaly blesses the believers during prayer.

Service in the Lifortovo church in Moscow – common.

Service in the Leningrad Cathedral – common.

Service in the Vladimir church in Kyiv – common.

Divine service in St.

Nicholas Cathedral (accompanied by choral singing, parishioners also sing) – general.

Divine service in the church of the Pskov-Pechersky Monastery – general.

Crucifixion of Christ – icon in the church.

Church in Yaroslavl – Polish People's Republic; church decoration – Polish People's Republic, cf.

Icon of the Savior, decorated with jewelry – cf.

Girl singing a prayer during a service in the church – cf.

Woman holding a child in her arms during a prayer in the church – cf.

Hand lighting a candle in the church – cf.

Divine service – Akathist before the icon of the Mother of God of Kaspirovskaya in the Dormition Cathedral in Odessa (prayers of the priest) – general. (with v/t).

Upper part of the cathedral – Polish People's Republic of icons.

People of different ages in the church during a service.

External view of the Dormition Cathedral in Odessa – general, cf.

Domes of the temple - kr.

Church of St.

George in Lviv – misc.

Divine service in the temple.

School-age children among adults in the temple during the divine service – gen., wed., wed.

The hands of a very plump church minister crumble the prosphora for the communion of the faithful - kr.

Archbishop Nikolai of Lviv and Ternopil reads a prayer at the divine service in the Church of St.

George (synchronously).

The building of the Lviv diocesan administration (the seat of the ruling bishop) – wed.

A meeting of the diocesan council headed by Archbishop Nikolai.

Metropolitan Alexy of Tallinn and Estonia, head of the Administration of Affairs of the Moscow Patriarchate, holds a meeting.

Metropolitan Alexy speaks about the activities of the diocesan bishops.

Icon of Christ the Savior – wed.

A meeting of the Holy Synod headed by its Chairman, His Holiness the Patriarch, who governs the Russian Orthodox Church.

His Holiness Patriarch Alexy of Moscow and All Rus' and permanent members of the Synod: Metropolitan Pimen of Krutitsy and Kolomna; Metropolitan Nikodim of Leningrad and Novgorod, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate; Metropolitan Filaret of Kiev and Galicia, Exirch of Ukraine; Administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Alexy of Tallinn and Estonia; and diocesan bishops at a meeting of the Synod - kr.

Metropolitan Nikodim speaks about the work of the Department for External Church Relations, of which he is the Chairman (synchronously).

A discussion between theologians of the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches, held in December 1967 at the Leningrad Theological Academy.

Bishop Juvenaly at an interview - ed.

Metropolitan Nikodim at an interview - ed.

The Crucifixion of Christ and the Gospel - religious subjects - ed.

Consultation of the Theological Secretariat of the World Council of Churches Commission "Faith and Church Order" at the Moscow Theological Academy in the spring of 1968. Bishop Michael, Metropolitan Philaret, Bishop Pitirim at the conference.

Metropolitan Nikodim and Archimandrite Irenaeus, rector of the Alexandria metochion in Odessa (synchronously - Irenaeus), speak.

Alexandria metochion in Odessa - Wed (nature).

Interior of the church.

Service in the church.

Archimandrite Irenaeus, rector of the Alexandria metochion in Odessa, conducts a service in the church.

Antiochian metochion in Moscow.

Archimandrite Alexy, Patriarch of Antioch in Moscow, conducts a service in the church (synchronously).

Interior of the church - Wed.

The Bulgarian Compound in Moscow (on Komsomolsky Prospekt) – Wed (winter).

The rector of the Bulgarian Compound, Archimandrite Filaret, speaks to the parishioners in the church during the service about the upcoming 90th anniversary of the liberation of the Bulgarian people from Turkish slavery by the Russian army (synchronously).

The monument in honor of the liberation of Bulgaria from the Turkish yoke in Bulgaria – Wed, kr, Poland.

The monument in honor of the victory over Turkey in 1877-1878 in Moscow on Staraya Square – various.

Fragments of the monument - kr.

The monument to the Soviet soldier in Novgorod – Wed.

The monument to the Soviet soldier in Volgograd (a grieving mother over her murdered son – a fragment of the ensemble).

Kazan Cathedral in Volgograd – Wed (winter).

Requiem in the Kazan Cathedral for the soldiers who died in the Great Patriotic War – various.

The Pantheon in Volgograd, the Eternal Flame, lists of soldiers killed in the battles for Volgograd, carved on the marble walls of the Pantheon.

Fragments of the memorial complex on Mamayev Kurgan – common, common.

A woman with a girl leaving the Pantheon – common.

The Motherland sculpture on Mamayev Kurgan – common.

Newsreel 1941-1945: Destroyed Stalingrad; the shadow of a flying airplane on the ruins – common.

Destroyed New Jerusalem Monastery near Moscow – common.

Poland with military equipment.

Destroyed Dormition Cathedral of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra – common, common.

During the war, residents of villages liberated from the fascist invaders greeted the soldiers-liberators with icons and prayers, blessing them for new exploits.

The destroyed building of the Volgograd mill, left as a war monument – general, cf.

Restored Volgograd, - general (autumn).

The Third Pan-Christian Peace Congress, held in March-April 1968 in Prague on the initiative and with the participation of the Russian Church – photograph.

Newsreel 1965: World Congress for Peace, National Independence and General Disarmament in Helsinki.

Soviet delegation: N.S. Tikhonov, V.V. Nikolaeva-Tereshkova, Metropolitan Filaret, Bishop Juvenaly at the congress Color: Kyiv – general.

City streets.

Monument to Bohdan Khmelnytsky – general.

St.

Vladimir's Cathedral in Kyiv – various (autumn).

Metropolitan Filaret gives communion to parishioners.

School-age children receive communion in the church (the sacrament of the Eucharist) – Wed, ed.

Religious rite – baptism of an infant in the church (font, anointing, etc.).

Painting on the wall of the church.

The painting "Baptism of Christ" in the church on the wall is the work of the artist Nesterov.

The sacrament of marriage is performed in the Lviv Cathedral.

The ceremony of consecrating the head of the Spiritual Mission in Japan, Archimandrite Nikolai, as Bishop of Tokyo and Japan in the church of the Leningrad Theological Academy in December 1967. The ordination performed during the liturgy in Trinity Cathedral in Leningrad (continuation of the consecration of Archimandrite Nikolai as bishop).

The newly ordained Bishop Nikolai receives the staff, a symbol of authority, and performs his first blessing.

The ceremony of tonsuring a new monk in the Pskov-Pechersky Monastery – misc.

Pskov-Pechersky Monastery – general, cf. (winter).

Pochaev Lavra in Volyn, founded in the 13th century.

Trinity Lavra of St.

Sergius, founded in the 14th century by Sergius of Radonezh on the outskirts of Moscow.

Churches in Yaroslavl, near Irkutsk, Novgorod, Kyiv – churches - general, cf. (winter).

Churches of the Trinity Lavra of St.

Sergius – various (night, winter).

The monks of the Lavra go to the morning service.

The nuns of the Pokrovsky Monastery go to the morning service.

The nuns of the Assumption Tyukhtinsky Monastery pray in the church.

Candles burn near the relics of St.

Job of Pochaev in the Pochaev Lavra.

Bells ringing in monasteries, monks ringing – general, cf.

The monks and the abbot of the monastery carry a special prosphora to the refectory after the service.

The fraternal refectory in the Trinity Lavra of St.

Sergius – monks at the refectory.

One of the monks reads the lives of the saints during the refectory.

In the Pskov-Pechersky Monastery, the nuns continuously, replacing each other, read the "Unceasing Psalter" for the departed.

Conducting a memorial service for monks and laymen buried in the monastery caves, soldiers from the time of Peter the Great - monks walk through the caves with prayer.

Nuns of the Assumption Tyukhtinsky Monastery at work maintaining their monastery economy: sawing wood, carrying water - various (winter).

The abbot of the Pskov-Pechersky Monastery, Archimandrite Alipy, teaches the art of icon painting to young monks.

Monks paint icons - cf.

Finished icons, executed in paints.

Icon of the ancient icon painter - monk Andrei Rublev "Trinity".

Icons of ancient icon painters "Savior", "Mother of God", "St.

George the Victorious" and others.

Icon "Nativity of Christ" - red.

Painting in a church in Lvov - Poland, red.

Interior view of the Vladimir Cathedral in Kyiv, painted by artists Vasnetsov, Nesterov and others - various.

Image of Christ, martyrs Boris and Gleb, the Mother of God; Adam and Eve.

The painting of the western wall of the Vladimir Cathedral "The Last Judgment" by Vasnetsov – various.

Various churches, stone and wooden, built in Rus' by Russian craftsmen at different times and for different reasons – various.

Wooden churches in Kizhi – various (autumn).

Trinity Lavra of St.

Sergius in Zagorsk – various (winter).

Moscow Theological Academy in the Trinity Lavra of St.

Sergius – general, average, Poland.

Moscow Theological Seminary in the Trinity Lavra of St.

Sergius.

Students of the Theological Academy rehearse after classes.

Poland on the icons in the church, where students learn to preach and perform obedience.

Another meeting of the Council of the Academy and Seminary in Zagorsk; Rector of the Moscow Theological Academy Filaret chairs the meeting (synchronously).

Students during classes in the auditoriums.

Among the students are clergy from the Antiochian, Serbian, Romanian and Bulgarian churches.

Teachers of various specialties give lectures to students.

The building of the Leningrad Theological Academy and Seminary.

Classes in the auditorium of the Afro-Asian Department, where students from Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and India study – various.

The library of the Leningrad Theological Academy, the book depository, the catalogue – general, cf.

Students study in the reading room of the library.

Members of the Academic Council of the Academy hold a colloquium before awarding a graduating student the degree of candidate of theology.

The meeting of the Academic Council is chaired by the rector of the Leningrad Theological Academy, Bishop Mikhail.

The building of the Odessa Theological Seminary in the Assumption Monastery.

Students study in the seminary.

In their free time, students study music and painting – various.

Church utensils, vestments, candles, crosses, icons are made in specialized workshops of the economic administration of the Moscow Patriarchate – various.

Church books published by the publishing department of the Moscow Patriarchate - cf.

PNR Bishop Pitirim of Volokolamsk, who heads the publishing house, speaks about the work of the department (synchronously).

A priest delivers a sermon in a church in Lviv; parishioners listen and pray.

Young girls listen to the sermon in the church - kr.

Archpriest Alexander Medvedsky delivers a sermon on the feast day of Alexander Nevsky in front of an icon depicting Alexander Nevsky in the Trinity Cathedral in Leningrad (synchronously).

Parishioners listen and pray - different.

A service in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra; Metropolitan Nikodim delivers a sermon (synchronously).

An icon of Alexander Nevsky in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra - kr, general.

The celebration of the Resurrection of Christ - Easter - by the Russian Orthodox Church (the religious rite of blessing Easter cakes, paskha, eggs, kissing the Shroud, a procession with the cross around the church, a service in the church after 12 midnight).

Moscow clergy and parishioners of Moscow churches in the Patriarchal Epiphany (Yelokhovsky) Cathedral congratulate His Holiness Patriarch Alexy on Easter.

Patriarch Alexy blesses the worshipers - general.

Epiphany Cathedral in Moscow - general, cf.

Moscow - a block of new houses and ancient churches next to them.