Church bells in Tomsk, Russia
Hymns to St. Nicholas
Troparion and Kontakion to St. Nicholas in Byzantine Chant
Settings from St. Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery Divine Music Project, via stanthonysmonastery.com
Chantus Maximus at St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, McKinney, TX
November 21, 2010
The Churches of Uglich 1880
Храмы города Углича 1880 г.
The Churches of Uglich in 1880.
Here I present an album of photographs of the churches of the charming and historic town of Uglich in the province of Yaroslavl, which stands on the Volga River.
The photographic album dates from 1880. Not all the churches have survived, a number having being destroyed in the 1930s.
Music: Blessed the Lord, O my Soul from the All-night Vigil by Alexander Arkhangelsky. Sung here by the Moscow Patriarchal Choir & Ariadna Rybakova.
Christian Orthodox Epiphany: Believers in Russia's Siberia mark Epiphany with icy plunge
Russian Orthodox believers submerse into frozen lake with temperatures outside dropping below minus 21 degrees Celsius, Reuters reports.
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Wow! A church made out of snow is fully functional
A tiny snow Orthodox church was built in Omsk region of Russia's southwestern Siberia.
Everything in the three-square- meter construction looks real and local churchgoers can pray there. The church was built for one and a half months by a man named Alexander.
Emperor Nicholas II reviews the troops on the Field of Mars. 1896
Смотр кавалерийских полков на Марсово Поле
(В воспоминание 15 апреля 1896 года)
Моментально фотографировал
генерал-майор Александр Насветевич
Review of cavalry regiments
in the Champ de Mars
(In memory of April 15, 1896)
Immediately photographed by
Major-General Alexander Nasvetevich
Accompanying music: Suite No.3 , Op.33. Variations. By Anton Arensky. Performed by The Moscow SDymphony Orchestra under Dmitry Yablonsky
Silent Night - Russia 2000
Here is Silent Night in three languages, recorded on my third mission trip to Russia in the Jubilee Year 2000. I sang it with a very gifted Russian cantor named Francis -ENJOY!
Church Bells in Kostroma, Russia 1993
Golden Ring
Russia 1993
Female monastics call the faithful to prayer for vespers.
Saint Blessed Fyodor Ushakov (Episode 39) - Orthodox Christian Podcast
Intro - On August 5th, 2001 at the Monastery erected in honour of the Nativity of the Mother of God in Sanaksary, they were glorifying the Blessed holy warrior Fyodor Ushakov, canonized as a local saint of the Russian Orthodox Church. This was the first appearance of a Saint in shoulder-straps – a navy officer — in the Russian church calendar.
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Led by Orthodox priests, the faithful celebrate Epiphany by plunging into icy waters, as an act of purification.
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Catholic church in Moscow, a pilgrim tour of Russia
Travel to Russia, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Путешествие по России. Собо́р Непоро́чного Зача́тия Пресвято́й Де́вы Мари́и
Epiphany at Strogino
Moscovites young and old celebrated Epiphany on Wednesday by dunking themselves in the freezing waters of the Moscow River near the Strogino metro station in northwest Moscow. The bathers dip their heads in the blessed water three times to honor the Holy Trinity and wash away their sins.
By MT staff photographer Vladimir Filonov
Bulgarians celebrate Epiphany in icy waters
In an old ritual marking the feast of Epiphany, thousands of young men plunged into icy waters across Bulgaria.
Orthodox Holiday of Epiphany (Twelfth-Day) in Ukraine. January 19th. http://kiev-tour-guide.at.ua
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The Epiphany, celebrated in Ukraine and Russia on January 19, marks the baptism of Jesus in the Orthodox Church. Believing that on this day water becomes holy and is imbued with special powers, Ukrainians and Russians cut holes in the ice of lakes and rivers, often in the shape of the cross, to bathe in the freezing water.
I was one of many participants in the ritual may dip themselves three times under the water, honoring the Holy Trinity, to symbolically wash away their sins from the past year, and to experience a sense of spiritual rebirth. Orthodox priests are on hand to bless the water, and rescuers are on hand to monitor the safety of the swimmers in the ice-cold water. Other less intrepid people may limit their participation in the Epiphany rites to those conducted inside churches, where priests perform the Great Blessing of Waters, both on Epiphany Eve and Epiphany (Theophany) proper. The water is then distributed to attendees who may store it to use in times of illness, to bless themselves, family members, and their homes, or to drink. Some Ukrainians think any water - even from the taps on the kitchen sink - poured or bottled on Epiphany becomes holy water, since all the water in the world is blessed this day. In the more mild climate of the southern cities of Odessa, Sevastopol, Mykolaiv, Evpatoria, Balaclava, Yalta meanwhile, where air and water temperatures both hover in the low to mid 10 degree Celsius range in January, thousands of people jump into the Black Sea at midnight each year on Epiphany and begin to swim in celebration of the feast.
First steps of Orthodox Bisantine Christianity in Kievan Rus medieval state started on the second half of 9th cent. The definitive Christianisation of Kiev dates from the late 980s (the year 986 is disputed), when Vladimir the Great was baptized at Chersonesos (Crimean peninsula), proceeding to baptize his family and people in Kiev. The place of Vladimir's baptism is marked by St. Vladimir's Cathedral (Sevastopol towm nowdays).
Returning from Crimea to Kiev in triumph, Vladimir baptised his 12 sons, guards and many nobles. He destroyed the wooden statues of Slavic pagan gods (the statue of Perun — the supreme god — was thrown into the Dnieper). Then Vladimir sent a message to all residents of Kiev, rich, and poor, and beggars, and slaves, to come to the Dniper river on the following day, lest they risk becoming the prince's enemies. Large number of people came; some even brought infants with them. They were sent into the water while Orthodox priests, who came from Chersonesos for the occasion, prayed. To commemorate the event, Vladimir built the first stone church of Kievan Rus', called the Church of the Tithes, where his body and the body of his new wife were to repose. Another church was built on top of the hill where pagan statues stood before.
By the way, Moscow [Moskva - in Slavonians transcription] was faunded, as known, in 1147 only (it was a very smal village on little island on the river Mokva [swamp - from Slavonian languages]. But Kiev was one of the biggest towns in Europe on that time.
Russians Celebrate Epiphany by Diving into Icy Waters
Hundreds of Russians arrived at the New Jerusalem Monastery outside Moscow to celebrate Theofany, which is a continuation of Epiphany, and marks the Baptism of Jesus Christ in the Jordan River. Russian believers and just fans wanting to try out being a polar bear begin dipping themselves in the icy waters just after midnight on January 19.
Pascha 2014
St Innocent Cathedral Anchorage, AK
Epiphany bathing
Blessing of the waters
Nativity in Yakutsk
Nativity service at the Church of Transfiguration in Yakutsk, Russia
Originally aired on theDove TV & Radio on Jan. 8, 2013
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Moscow marks Epiphany with dips in icy holy waters
An estimated two million Russians took a dip in icy waters Monday to celebrate Epiphany, a major holiday in Orthodox Christianity marking the birth and baptism of Jesus.
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Russian Silent Night
Live Nativity Petting Zoo at a Slavic (Russian) church in December 2013. At the end of the evening they sang Silent Night in Russian. I've never heard it done in Russian before and thought it was pretty cool!