news irkutsk region. an ancient psalter, pioneered by ivan fedorov, was found in novosibirsk. the rarest edition of 1570 was kept for several years in the library of the novosibirsk orthodox theological seminary. report by ksenia klimina. the yellowed, tattered pages are witnesses to centuries of history. they hide many secrets. employees of the novosibirsk state public scientific and technical library are trying to solve them. this is the edition of ivan fedorovna released. for several years it stood quietly on the shelf of the library of the novosibirsk orthodox church theological seminary, he came here from the temple. a small temple on the territory of the novosibirsk region, an ancient psalter was discovered here, it was brought as a gift by someone from...

several decades ago. they probably didn’t even suspect its value, and the scientists themselves were surprised by the find. traditional ancient russian binding, boards covered with leather, even stitching are decorated with engravings. on some pages that time has not been kind to, there are patches and handwritten text. watermarks helped to establish the exact age of the book. throughout history study papers by researchers were collected and published. numerous albums of filigree watermarks , from which it is possible to date the book with quite high accuracy, here you can clearly see , here is a coat of arms with an image of an ax, paper from the second half of the 15th century, the pages of an ancient book provide scope for research, scientists were able to decipher the name of one of the former owners. we have already managed to find out the name of this person using digital photo correction. ivan vasiliev. spitsen, he was

the son of a boyar and at one time was a governor in verkhaturye. in 1620 he bought this book in ustyug the great. scientists have yet to find out how many owners the book had and how it got to siberia. the other four copies of this ancient russian edition known to the world are kept in the libraries of london, st. petersburg, saratov and lvov. in novosibirsk, which is important, the orthodox theological seminary will be able to read the psalter. to use for its intended purpose, i think that deacon ion fedorov would probably be glad today that this book is in the orthodox christian environment. soon in time, the psalter will be digitized and added to the register of book monuments. ksenia klimina, sergey babichev, alexander ganov and elena goleeva. vesti, novosibirsk. features of national archeology in winter, when it’s frosty outside, everything is covered. snow and it is impossible to go out into the field,

but more time appears for work in the museum, scientific articles and collections are published, descriptions of found objects are carried out, as well as restoration, reconstruction, conservation from the museum workshop in kursk, evgeniy danets. this museum department is called restoration workshop, its employees are restorers, but they are usually engaged in conservation, this means cleaning the contamination of corrosion products to help. all sorts of bristling things from brushes to mechanical brushes. corrosion can be dormant, or it can be in an active phase, then it is necessary to stop this corroding process, in other words, to stabilize the object, preserving the original author’s surface as much as possible. and ultrasound, yes, there in various alkaline solutions, the usual intense ki - let's say, a change of hot cold water, yes, that’s the thing.

we immerse in hot and cold water and the same and contrast shower in the best case , work on preserving artifacts, the restorer starts in the field, you can’t take all the tools for excavations, but first aid can be provided, the object lies hundreds, or even thousands, underground years old, he got used to it, adapted to the situation, what rotted, then rotted, chemical reactions fell asleep, and after discovery they woke up when archaeologists lifted them, but this happens...

a pad from a book lock, this doesn’t work to the surface in dozens. selection for the exhibition takes place according to two criteria. first, things that most fully represent a historical period. if we take the early iron age, its calling card can be considered the scythian short sword. we see ak here, we see a trebowl hook there, we see glen weights there, that is, these are the things that characterize the era, characterize this culture on our territory. the second criterion is exposure appearance. if we have, say, 10 knives, of these ten knives one has survived handle, from another, a eaten away piece of the back of a knife has been preserved there, and so on, then we will of course choose the one that... is the most well preserved, which looks the most representative, not only for a specialist who knows that this is a knife, but also for an ordinary visitor, who should generally understand that this strange piece of iron is actually a knife; it was used to cut someone. calculated season numbers for a restorer exist, but they rarely coincide with

reality. according to the plan, i have somewhere on average 100 items, right now in this the season is already approaching two hundred, taking into account the fact that... this season a fairly large collection of objects has been identified in gocheva. in addition to the finds of the main expedition , things found during reconnaissance conducted by employees end up in the museum’s workshop. sometimes private individuals hand over discovered objects from bygone eras. it is the restorer who can be the first to see something valuable hidden under a layer of dust, dirt and rust, engraving or inlay. the work of the workshop allows us to draw conclusions about production technology.

literally every hour and a half here to kolomna electric trains arrive from the capital , travel time is -40, which is noticeably faster than by car or bus. the first point where all tourists flock, of course, is the kolumensky kremlin, 17 towers, walls 4.5 m thick, were built in the image of the walls of the moscow kremlin and did an excellent job. main purpose, protection. the kolomel kremlin is the only residential kremlin in russia and a magnificent example of a 15th-century defensive structure. among excursions, a trip with a cab is especially appreciated by tourists. historical walk through kolomna kremlin with the chic of bygone times.

here’s what’s interesting: the yamskaya tower has been preserved here; according to one version, it was named in honor of the fact that yam, in modern terms, a transport hub, is located not far from here. only the wealthiest residents, merchants, could afford to move around the city in the 19th century, which gave this place wide fame, for example, the city of soap makers, here now this business is held in high esteem, handmade soap is also in some sense an art, soap was brewed here a long time ago, but there really was a factory in the city, belonged to the merchant malovar grigory ivanovich suranov, guests in kolomna are usually greeted not with bread with

kolomna gingerbread - another delicious souvenir to which entire theatrical performances are dedicated here, you can try yourself as a baker, press it with your fingers so that we have our dough in its entire shape distributed, well, at the same time we’ll give our dough a good gingerbread massage, they say about kolomna, no one has ever left here hungry, the city is famous for its rolls, they have earned the right to a second birth in the 21st century. keep your collab, please, one of the main gastronomic brands makes it according to a 15th century recipe from two types of flour, the smell is simply incredible. on christmas eve there are especially many pilgrims in the city, the festive decoration of the temple in the city of the orthodox

pearl of the moscow region. christmas gifts can be bought at the local craft fair, all of which, if you try, can be squeezed into one big tourist day. developments, see you soon, your holiness, thank you very much once again for this traditional opportunity talking to you on christmas, about the holiday of christmas, i congratulate you. thank you sincerely, for me it is always such a special event to meet on the eve

of a holiday, communicate with you, and through this communication still have some kind of conversation with our people. your holiness, this year will be the year of the fifteenth anniversary of your enthronement, i remember very well how even earlier, then 15 years ago, you were already talking about traditional values, at a time when... many politicians were still frowning so demonstrably, they say what traditional values, if for the well-being of the people , for the well-being of the state, we have the institution of human rights, we have democracy, that is enough, you said even then, this year we can already say that traditional values ​​have become part of the institution of law, and you at the same time , you still continue to talk about traditional values, that is, do you think that this declaration is still worth fighting for and in general how... will you attach importance to this topic in your primate ministry? i'd like to start a little with

philology: tradition, what is it? tradition is transmission, literally, transmission, hence transfer, well, everything else. in other words, traditional values ​​are those values ​​that are transmitted from whom, to whom and what are they? the time period during which these values ​​are transmitted, answering these questions, we will immediately understand what we are talking about, we are talking about eternal values, about those values ​​that are inherent in the very nature of man by god, and the implementation of these values ​​enriches man with , which is archivally important, irrelevant, in many ways defining such... an important concept as human happiness, therefore there is nothing archaic here, but here is evidence of something

that goes even beyond the boundaries of our experience, how one can imagine a value that has always existed and which has been passed on from generation to generation, from culture to culture, so there should be an attitude towards traditional values, but very attentive, and the most important thing is to...

understand, firstly, why this is only significant now, that of course, it is important to try to happen, but why didn’t this happen before could happen, why did the patriarch, constantly passing by this icon, not ask himself the question that this is not a poster, this is not a copy, it is that this is an icon, but the face is so ancient that this icon cannot be made now, but after all it was passing by ... how and what happened at some point? you went through the same as before, and what happened?

yes, i pass here, look at the icon and think how they still learned to fake it as antique, not realizing that in front of me is the original, i take this icon in my hands, turn it i understand that this is an ancient icon, i remember the story that testified. that the moscow list of the kazan mother of god was allegedly stolen from the church on red square, and no one could explain or really... tell the story of how it was stolen, and that the thieves were not caught or there was a chase, who even said, that he was kidnapped, there is no this information, then the thought comes to me, maybe no one kidnapped him, but they simply hid him, there was such a time, they hid the image, and the fact that he ended up in

the patriarchal sacristy is also not accidental, but where but to bring this image, so that it would still go nowhere... having been found for a week, and not given to any museum, it was handed over to my predecessors, in all likelihood, it was patriarch alexy ii. here. and the image was in the patriarchal sacristy. and this is how my contact with this shrine took place. but i’m also very glad that this happened not only as a keel. and this image did not remain only as it were. in the place where the patriarch prays, but that the opportunity has arisen to return him to the historical place where he was, to red square, but these are clearly some kind of signs , or it’s this, or it’s us, so-so, this is a good question, for the church, for the people, for the state, this is a very good question, there is such a text from the holy scriptures:

do not harm an evil soul degrades wisdom and does not dwell in the body, guilty of... sin. what does this mean? this means that in order to accept the grace of god, in order to accept a miracle, you need to be ready for it. were we ready for this in soviet times? no. we were ready in the post-soviet era, when all these turbulences were, our consciousness was switched to something completely different. now is a special time. i call this focus time. russia has really gained strength both materially and intellectually. military, many forces , but russia has undoubtedly gained spiritual strength , it has become a pillar of orthodoxy throughout the world, our church not only plays some kind of cultural role, it is located outside the fields of public life, there on the periphery , serving pensioners, it is in the center of people’s lives, that’s when all these wonderful

changes in our lives took place, that’s when the mother of god and not an evil soul would appear in the open soul of our people, to open hearts, to receive this grace, therefore everything is connected very closely, and the state of people, the level of their faith, spirituality, readiness to perceive shrines, and the miracles that the lord performs , i’ll say it again, wisdom will not enter an evil soul, so these... events testify to a great shift that has occurred in the consciousness of our people and in the spiritual life of people. your testimony is now praying, as it seems to me, most of all crying out to god, our the guys are there, on the front line, in the trenches, before the battle, taking enemy attacks. thank god,

we already have a feeling of the absolute inevitability of victory, it will happen, we will have it. we will get it, but people continue to die, wars, and my colleagues, journalists, and ordinary ordinary people, townspeople, both in the operation zone and in the border areas, here’s how to help them, how to reassure them, how to give hope, the answer to the question, to which i personally don’t have an answer to, how, because that’s all. individually, one word must be addressed to the warrior who is given the most dangerous a task associated, perhaps, with direct contact with the enemy, and he realizes that there is little chance of even returning after this task. another thing is the commander, who is located, perhaps outside such a zone of direct reach from the enemy, but makes

responsible decisions, and so on, you can climb the highest level along this ladder. therefore, i think that there cannot be such a single answer, but i would like to say this: the lord does not send the people trials that they are not able to endure, even the great patriotic war, which was accompanied by enormous suffering of people, was not capable of destroying the life of our people, and these are the trials that exist today. to destroy our worldview, which directly includes love for the homeland and readiness to defend it. therefore, it seems to me that every

test is sent to us not for our destruction, at least spiritual destruction, but so that after passing these tests we become better. therefore, in a sense, what is happening to us today is an exam to our maturity. including for spiritual maturity, for so many years you lived in conditions of religious freedom, you built churches, opened monasteries, you began to partake of the holy mysteries of christ, priests work in the armed forces, guys confess, clean themselves before going on the attack, now it’s like a completely different dimension of this spiritual life, the question is : what does all this bring to us, as a people, as a country? i am deeply convinced that if there had not been this revival, god forbid, if such internecine warfare had occurred, then it would have proceeded completely differently

, its consequences would have been very dangerous for our country, but today the people, the country has the potential to repel those who want to crush our fatherland, this is exactly how we pray in a special prayer at the liturgy for peace for cessation of hostilities for our victory, well, we hope that it will be so. once again, i want to emphasize that our victories are forged not only on the battlefield, they are forged starting from kindergartens and schools, they are forged in some of our youth organizations. groups where people young people think about the country, about the future , about their own lives, in educational institutions, and of course, the church continues

to carry out a very special ministry, god willing, that by mobilizing all the forces that we have, we could become stronger, first turn, stronger spiritually, to become more courageous, more selfless, more imprisoned in... the west and that will be good for them, now , apparently, they have said goodbye to these illusions, because they are starting to return, they are returning, more more, here are two

points of view: some say: we need to help, we need to bring them back, while others say: there’s no need to help, society will be cleaner without these people, how is that christian? hmm, well, i don’t want to say anything from my own, from my own kind of wisdom or insufficient wisdom, simply. i would like to refer to the word of god, the parable of the prodigal son, here are two sons, one prudent, who worked, toiled, helped his father, the second, having received inheritance money, squandered it, and then came, ragged, unhappy, and of course, indignant, because that son prudent, and the father accepted this prodigal son, this is the same parable for everyone... there is no need to push away a person who has sinned if this person comes with a feeling of repentance, awareness of his guilt, so if if, if these

people who left russia and even there they spoke out somewhere, said something against it, but returned with the understanding that they really made a mistake, then their homeland cannot reject them, that’s different. i can’t formulate an approach to this topic that is uniquely christian, well, there’s probably there may be some other law enforcement topics, the degree of involvement of these people in some kind of criminal actions, but this no longer concerns the clergyman, and i say this by drawing attention to the fact that among these people there are quite worthy people, but those who were wrong. or they were scared, or they really tried to find something in life that was more convenient for themselves, comfortable for themselves, but they were put to shame, but...