The Role of the Russian Orthodox Church During the Great Patriotic War: "We Endured with Faith" (2005)

Sergey Kravets talks about the role of the Orthodox Church and the activities of Metropolitan Sergius Stragorodsky during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945).

War chronicle: People on the street listen to the announcement of the beginning of the war.

Chronicle of the Great Patriotic War: attack, explosions, destroyed cities, wounded.

A nun provides assistance to a wounded man.

Service in the church.

Center of Moscow: The Kremlin.

Letters of Metropolitan Sergius.

Autobiography of Saint Luke: a photograph of the bishop.

Documentary newsreel: a railway train, a village (winter).

Books of Saint Luke.

His watch.

A military hospital from the time of the Great Patriotic War.

A church and approaching cars, the wounded in the hospital, a photograph of Saint Luke with church hierarchs.

Decree of the Moscow Patriarchate.

A service in the church where the relics of Saint Luke rest.

History of the Moscow region village of Bely Rast during the Great Patriotic War.

A local resident, working in the village church, Maria Trukhacheva, performs one of the psalms: "In the Jordan...", talks about the arrival of the Nazi army in the village in 1941. She talks about the strength of faith and fortitude of the residents, the role of the clergy, with whose help it was possible to survive and overcome the most difficult, turning point during the Great Patriotic War.

Filming general plans of the area (winter).

Church: surviving iconostasis.

Monument to those killed in the war.

Bells.

Donskoy Monastery.

On the monastery grounds there are tanks (the tank column named after Dmitry Donskoy), made with donations from believers during the Great Patriotic War.

Chronicle of the Great Patriotic War: the military operation to liberate Berlin.

Wounded soldiers of the Red Army.

Photograph by Metropolitan Sergius.

Interview with historian O.Yu.

Vasilieva about fundraising for the front, organized by the Orthodox Diocese, as a result of which the Dmitry Donskoy tank column was created.

About the participation and role of the mission of Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky).

Photograph of fighters of the Donskoy tank division.

War chronicle (1945): street battles.

Conference "For Ourselves", dedicated to the spiritual feat of the people who survived the events of the Great Patriotic War (1941-45).

Speech by Patriarch Alexy II. Presidium.

Interview with a participant in the Great Patriotic War - Father Vasily (Ermakov) about his prayers to God during the war and with Matushka Adriana - a veteran of the Great Patriotic War.

Address plan of the Assumption Church in Zvenigorod, Moscow Region (winter photography).

Service in the Church.

Parishioners during the service.

The image of the Kyiv Icon of the Mother of God, which local residents credit with the miracle of salvation during the Great Patriotic War.

The village in winter: wooden houses, road.

Interview with V.K. Babakina - the story of the salvation of the icon itself in the pre- and post-war period.

Interview with a priest about the Kiev Icon of the Mother of God.

A story about mother Adriana (Natalia Malysheva).

In 1941 she volunteered for the front.

Participant of the Battle of Moscow.

Photographs from the war years.

Arrival of Patriarch Alexy II to participate in the Conference.

Metropolitan Clement of Kaluga and Borovsk.

Presidium of the forum.

Performance of the prayer "O Heavenly King...".

Speech of the Patriarch at the conference.

Alexy II speaks about the qualities that manifested themselves in the people during the Great Patriotic War; about the contribution of the Russian Orthodox Church to the fight against fascism, about the persecution experienced by the Church.

A gift to the Patriarch - books from veterans.

Present are Father Dmitry (Smirnov) and Archbishop Evgeny of Vereisky.

In the meeting hall are priests - veterans of the Great Patriotic War.

A story about Archpriest Father Gerasim (Ivanov).

Photographs from the family archive.

War photographs.

Chronicle of the Great Patriotic War: Moscow: Kremlin towers (general view); Military actions: explosions, broken military equipment; firing guns; urban battles, wounded.

Soldiers say goodbye to a killed comrade-in-arms.

Interview with Father Gerasim.

Father Gerasim's works - painted by him: iconostasis, bell towers.

Photos of Gleb Kaleda.

His letters from the war period.

Interview with his wife, Lidiya Kaleda.

Chronicle of the Great Patriotic War: military actions, the Kremlin on Red Square.

Photos of Gleb Kaleda as a priest.

Letters from the war years from the archive card index.

Signature: "To our Red Army: 1918 - 1944".

Fragment of a feature film about the Great Patriotic War.

Photographs of clergy - veterans of the Great Patriotic War.

Interview with military historian Olga Vasilyeva.

The historian tells about a tragic story: the death of the priest's son, about the survival of residents in besieged Leningrad.

Letters from the war years with illustrations.

Video chronicle of the Great Patriotic War: Moving a convoy with food across Lake Ladoga in winter during an air raid by fascist fighters (Road of Life).

Blockaded Leningrad: people clear rubble after air raids, faint from exhaustion in the streets.

Children's drawings dedicated to the events of 1941-1945: "Children Draw War".

Interview with Vladimir Krupinin.

Video chronicle: A child follows a harrow during sowing: urges a horse.

Agricultural work: women work in the field.

Chronicle of the Great Patriotic War: a battle within the city, wounded soldiers, military personnel say goodbye to a killed comrade.

Dmitrovsky District, Moscow Region.

Rural Temple.

Memorial stele on Peremilovsky Heights to the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War.

Ascension Temple.

Service.

Temple icons.

Interview with veteran Alexander Balabayev, a participant in combat events (during the Great Patriotic War) that took place near the village.

Nun Alexandra walks through the courtyard of the temple square.

Mother in the refectory.

Church of Peter and Paul in Lefortovo - address plan.

Service.

Above the altar is the inscription "Christ is Risen".

Interview with nun Alexandra.

Chronicle of the Great Patriotic War (1941-0945): volunteers before being sent to the front, military operations, small arms artillery, military Moscow: barrage balloons over the city, monument to Alexander Pushkin.

Service in the church of different years: 1950-70. Contemporary shooting: Procession with the cross; blessing of Easter cakes, queue to the church.

Spring-summer shooting.

Moscow region.

Meadow.

Panorama from the field to the general plan of the rural Church of the Savior Not Made by Hands.

Father Vasily enters the church and kisses the icons.

Interior of the Church.

Interview with Father Vasily.

Military awards and orders of Father Vasily.

Chronicle of military events of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945).

Explosions from an air raid.

Artillery salvos.

Fighting in the city.

A soldier runs under fire.

Machine gun fire.

Hand-held grenade launcher.

Soldiers in a train carriage are sent to the front.

A detachment of Red Army soldiers marches along the road.

Laying the banners of the Nazi army at the walls of the Kremlin on Red Square.

Returning from the front.

Welcoming the soldiers A service in a Moscow church on Poklonnaya Hill on the day of remembrance of St.

George the Victorious.

The service is led by Patriarch Alexy II.

The story of the family of Alexandra Gavrilovna and Fyodor Grigorievich Milyukov.

A summer cottage village near Moscow.

Garden beds on a personal plot.

Pensioners mow the lawn with a lawn mower.

Summer cottage.

Close-up: a bumblebee on a blooming rose hip.

Strawberry inflorescences in the beds; greenhouses.

Pensioners work in the garden, manually cultivating the soil in the vegetable garden.

Wartime family photographs.

Newsreel of war events (1941-1945): soldiers resting by the fire; a flamethrower on the battlefield, the Battle of Sevastopol.

Interviews with the Milyukov family about the events of the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet regime - the GULAG camps, about faith that saved in difficult and dangerous life situations.

Presentation of an award to schema-nun Adriana at the church-public forum "For Friends".

Journalists, TV cameras.

Speech by Alexy II. Interview with mother Adriana.

The schema-nun talks about the war years (1941-1945), about her salvation; about the soldiers who were captured (prisoners of war).

Adriana's military awards: order bars.