Church of St. Nicholas

Russia: Belogorsky St. Nicholas Orthodox Missionary Monastery Cathedral

Russians are awesome - we love Russia:

Belogorsky St. Nicholas Orthodox Missionary Monastery Cathedral or Belaya Gora (White Mountain) Monastery is the biggest cathedral in the Urals, situated 120 km from Perm and 80 km from Kungur.

Father Igumen Varlaam was the builder and first Abbot of the Belogorsky St. Nicholas Orthodox Missionary Monastery Cathedral. It was constructed as a missionary church by the Russian Orthodox Church within an area where many Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church congregations were located.

Construction of the monastery church began in 1902 and it was consecrated in June of 1917. Four hundred (400) monks lived at the monastery in 1917. Their daily schedule was prayers from 3 to 6 AM, then work. Lunch was 11:30 to noon, then 2 hours of rest. Return to work from 2 to 5. Last service was the day was from 6 to 10 PM.

In 1914 the Grand Duchess Elisabeth Phedorovna Romanova visited the monastery.

The monastery was captured during the Russian Revolution by the Red Army in October 1917. Fighting left some monks dead and others were deported. The Abbot of the monastery was tortured to death in 1918 and the monastery was converted into a mental hospital. The great bells of the monastery were broken into pieces with sledge hammers and the artwork of the monastery was largely destroyed.

The monastery was used as a hospital for shell shocked soldiers and civilians during and after the Second World War. A mental patient burnt off the roof of the monastery church in 1979 and the building was abandoned.

A dedicated group of eight monks rushed to stablize the building in 1993 and it has been undergoing restoration ever since that year.

North 57 degrees 23.542' and East 56 degrees 13.787' at an elevation of 465 meters. Especially in winter months, Belaya Gora looks unusually beautiful. From the elevation, one has a 360 degree view over the typical vast forest landscape of the Urals.

The Youth of Peter the Great (1980) movie

The movie tells about youth of Peter the Great, about formation of his nature and about the immediate circle. The tsar resolutely refuses a number of patriarchal values and aims to propel the country he loves and to which he is devoted with all his youthful ardour, to the most educated ones.

The Youth of Peter the Great (1980) movie

Genres: Biography, Drama, History
Production Co: Gorky Film Studio

Directed by Sergey Gerasimov
Writing Credits: Sergey Gerasimov, Yuri Kavtaradze, Aleksei Tolstoy (novel)
Music by Vladimir Martynov
Cinematography by Sergey Filippov, Horst Hardt
Production Design by Boris Dulenkov, Jochen Keller, Aleksandr Popov
Costume Design by Ella Maklakova

Cast:
Dmitriy Zolotukhin as Peter the Great
Tamara Makarova as Natalya Kirillovna Naryshkina
Natalya Bondarchuk as Sophya
Nikolay Eryomenko as Aleksandr Menshikov
Oleg Strizhenov as Vassily Golitzyn
Vadim Spiridonov as Fedor Shaklovityi
Mikhail Nozhkin as Boris Golitzin
Peter Reusse as Franz Lefort
Ulrike Mai as Anna Mons
Yuriy Moroz as Aleksey Brovkin
Eduard Bocharov as Ivan Brovkin
Lyubov Polekhina as Aleksandra Brovkina
Lyubov Germanova as Yevdokia Lopukhina
Roman Filippov as Fedor Romodanovskyi
Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina
Olegar Fedoro as Monk
Pyotr Glebov
Nikolay Grinko as Nektaryi
Hannjo Hasse
Rolf Hoppe
Vladimir Kashpur
Aleksandr Komarov as Brovkin
Marina Levtova
Vitaliy Matveev as Iuda
Klaus-Peter Pleßow
Helmut Schreiber
Yekaterina Vasilyeva

Le BAPTEME de Anastasia par le Père Guy Gilbert

Dimanche 13 juin 2010,
9 mois après l'adoption et son arrivée de notre fille de Russie,
le Père Guy GILBERT (le curé des princes & des loubards) l a baptisée dans la petite chapelle du XIè S., consacrée la veille, à ROUGON.....
Le moment fut magique...!!!