Mission to China (2004)

Trinity Lavra of St.

Sergius.

Moscow Theological Academy.

A student from China graduated from the academy.

An Orthodox prayer is heard in Chinese.

A Chinese fan with hieroglyphs.

Views of modern Chinese cities.

Women cook food on the street.

Skyscraper.

An elderly Chinese man flies a kite.

Panorama of a Chinese city.

City residents eat street food.

Red lanterns are sold.

Fish in a pond.

A musician plays a folk instrument on the street.

Elderly people do gymnastics on the streets of the city.

Ancient sculpture of a lion.

Pagodas.

Chinese temples.

Praying Chinese.

Chinese miniature and poems about it.

St.

Sophia Cathedral in Harbin.

Icons on the walls of the cathedral.

White doves on the roof of the cathedral.

Holy Protection Church.

Orthodox Chinese go to church to pray.

Prayers are heard from the church.

A priest serves a liturgy in Chinese.

Beijing cafe.

An icon in the corner and hieroglyphs on the walls.

A priest compares the sound of prayers in Russian and Chinese.

An icon of Jesus Almighty.

Chinese poems.

Mountains in China.

The Great Wall of China.

Horsemen resting by the wall.

A Chinese miniature: a horseman and a tree.

Ruins of a watchtower.

Alternating shots with views of the Great Wall of China.

Alternating shots with Chinese miniatures.

A boat sails under a bridge in a Chinese province.

A miniature with a boat.

A Chinese man steering a boat.

A parking lot of junks.

Roofs of Chinese houses in a village.

A modern bridge and a city in the distance.

A pond with fish.

The domes of an Orthodox church are reflected in the water.

Drawings on the theme of Orthodoxy.

A Chinese priest narrates.

Rickshaws.

The Embassy of the Russian Federation.

The Ambassador of the Russian Federation to China Igor Rogachev narrates.

The Embassy of the Russian Federation moved in 1958 to a building on the territory of the Russian Orthodox Mission.

Model of the mission grounds and buildings.

Pond on the mission grounds.

Photograph of Archimandrite Peter.

Photograph of Archimandrite Father Iokinf (Bichurin).

Photograph of Archimandrite Father Palady (Gafarov).

Photograph of Archimandrite Guriy.

Metropolitan Innocent (Figurovsky).

Bishop Simon Do (Dubinin).

Archimandrite Simon (Vinogradov).

Archpriest Vasily Do.

Archbishop Victor (Svyatin).

Residence of the archimandrite, head of the Orthodox mission.

Continuation of the story of the Russian ambassador about the life of the monks in the mission.

General list of officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where the name of Father Iokinf is present along with ambassadors and other embassy employees.

Report to the Emperor of Russia, in which Father Iokinf is mentioned.

Chinese portrait of Father Iokinf (Bichurin).

Father Iokinf's grave in the necropolis of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St.

Petersburg.

A Chinese priest prays at the grave of Father Iokinf.

A photograph of the Church of All Holy Martyrs, erected in memory of the Orthodox Chinese who died during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. A photograph of Orthodox monks in China.

A letter to Molotov from the Moscow Patriarchate on the liquidation of the Russian spiritual mission in Beijing.

The ambassador shows a cross erected in memory of the monks buried in Chinese soil.

An old photograph of an Orthodox church in China.

The Shanghai Cathedral of the Icon of the Companion of Sinners.

Alexander Vertinsky was married in this church, and in recent years it has housed a restaurant.

St.

Nicholas Church.

The icon of the Mother of God, painted in the Chinese style.

During the Cultural Revolution, a portrait of Mao was hung on this site, saving the church.

Currently, the Orthodox churches of Shanghai are nothing more than architectural monuments.

Harbin.

Russian cemetery.

An Orthodox chapel, which now houses an arcade.

A bell tower crowned with a star over the gate.

An amusement park, rides, and overgrown graves of Russian soldiers nearby.

A monument to A.S. Pushkin in Shanghai.

Nearby are all kinds of shops and restaurants with Russian signs and names.

A rickshaw taking a rest.

Everyday scenes on the streets of Shanghai.

A boy playing with a football is visible in the passage.

Cycle rickshaws on a modern street.

An old miniature with horse-drawn carriages.

The Bund in Shanghai at night.

A Chinese priest reads a prayer and lights a candle in a temple.

A fan with hieroglyphs appears in the frame.