basis, it is impossible to determine the exact timing before, so to speak, working with an object, this is not brickwork, where you put a meter, you have to wait a day, you put the meter, you wait a day, that’s it, here, after all, such a process is very, i, for example, finger this one spent half a day painting, well, that is, i went and drank coffee , well, that is, there are some moments when it’s really very difficult to get into... to get into color, this is of course a special, hardly comparable feeling, leave your mark, even if invisible, on the gospel, which has probably been touched the hands of peter the great, and which were held in their... in the hands of all

the jerusalem patriarchs, without exception, starting from the 18th century. by the way, the restoration of the gospel allowed historians to carefully examine the book and make an amazing discovery. it turned out that between the pages a real time capsule of a letter dated 1694 had been kept for centuries. the whole book. great lord hadrian, reigning archbishop.

the church that was and the holy sepulcher was never interrupted even in the most difficult times, now they continue, mutual cooperation, it exists. a pilgrimage to the holy land has always, i think, throughout the era, been associated with a certain amount of work that the pilgrim had to undertake. if we are talking about years distant from us, then we understand perfectly well that the pilgrimage itself took a long time, it was a long journey, and very often grueling, very often exhausting. but the pilgrims went for it because the very opportunity to visit the holy land was worth it. some historical moments, the path of russian pilgrims to the holy land was akin to suicide; it was especially difficult for pilgrims in those days when palestine was captured by the turks. to go to the holy city in jerusalem and back it took an average of 11 years, and you had to cross the border of five states, which... there were,

for example, muslims and this crossing was very , well, unsafe for life, say, you are some turkish an officer could only let you cross the border if you convince him to become an orthodox christian, you baptize him, and then they’ll let you through, but something like this, otherwise he will cut off your head, which is why in 1656 the patriarch of all russia nikon, loving his flock and understanding the importance of the shrines that... remained after the earthly life of jesus christ, decided to found a new jerusalem near moscow, which would become a world center orthodoxy and would attract hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to the holy russian land. he began to build on the banks of the istra the resurrection cathedral in the image of the church of the holy sepulcher.

kelar, a trinity of the sergius monastery and diplomat arseny sukhanov, committed several travels to the east and delivered to nikon the cypress model of the temple. by the way, it was a very unsafe journey, because if he had been caught there, we would have executed him there too as a spy, as an intelligence officer. another country, which, having arrived there, means taking some measurements, making some descriptions, it was a very dangerous moment, and yet in arsenievich sukhanov’s novels this was done, so the holy patriarch himself, without being there in the holy earth not once, so i made this shrine, created this shrine, in such a very close approximation and uniqueness, so that everyone who is there... has been

here, they testify that there is a very great similarity.

they went there, and after that they increased, all this on the basis of religion, so to speak, all this went to the orthodox greeks, and not to the catholics, they restored the temple. worshiping shrines, the temple and the tomb, we often do not even think about the origin

of the elements that decorate this church, the resurrection. here, for example, is a holy place, golgotha, but it is decorated in russian church style. back in 1864, the russian consul yakovlev asked the patriarch of jerusalem whether the silver for decorating golgotha ​​had reached the church of the sepulcher here? today, russian restorers continue to restore the priceless interior decoration of the church of the holy sepulchre. so our specialists gave a second life to the carved hay with thirteen icons from finifti installed. above the entrance to the edicule. historians are still arguing about its appearance in the church of the holy sepulcher, but most likely the russian gift appeared in a sacred place, as a result of a pilgrimage to the holy land of the emperor’s brother alexandra ii. grand duke konstantin nikolaevich in may 1859. around

2003, we transferred the arch to a russian foundation for minor restoration work. for a long time nothing worked, then after 2 years with the support of the spiritual mission, the archangel michael foundation and the president of the russian federation vladimir putin, the arch was returned to its original place in the church of the holy sepulchre. she was lost when she was 18, we found her, we restored her and returned her to the place where she should have been, because that no one knew until now. there was a replica. over the past years, almost all the enamel beads and canopies have been damaged, many of them show traces of impacts. the fennel plates had to be dismantled and essentially recreated from scratch. it took about a month to create each miniature; in general,

the reconstruction was completed in a year and a half. it is the restoration of imali that today seems to be probably one of the most difficult.

most importantly, we got a wonderful result, we open the case with trepidation restored arch, yes, it really looks the same as in 1859, when it was donated to the church of the holy sepulcher by the russian imperial family, st. petersburg imale, sapphires and gilded wood. the period to which this priceless gift belongs became golden for the russian presence in the holy land. in the second half of the 19th century , palestine, then under the protectorate of the ottoman empire, was founded. russian spiritual mission: churches and farmsteads were built, lands with

biblical history were acquired. so on the mount of olives near the site of christ's ascension. the mission erected a temple with a bell tower, called the "russian candle". a three-meter bell for it was cast with the money of the perm merchant ryazantsev and on march 12, 1884, sent by steamer from odessa to yafa. arrival from russia. made in russia, transported to odessa there, that is, separately, then loaded onto

a gunpowder, and delivered to jaffa, this is a seaside town, they were loaded onto carts, here are our pilgrims, mostly pilgrims, they replaced each other, harnessed to these carts, these 50 km they delivered it all to jerusalem and they were raised there, it is still... on holidays - the ringing of bells from ours, these are our bells. in the second half of the 19th century, the russian government helped the patriarch of jerusalem solve another serious problem: to restore the dome over the entrance to the chapel of the holy sepulchre. he could have attacked the pilgrims and threatened the shrine itself, but the roman catholics, who also had rights to the church on sunday, did not allow the greeks to proceed. for repairs. the first earthquake

occurred in 1845. the dome was completely destroyed, and the russians and the french agreed restored it. such projects were incredibly difficult, but then still possible. alexander ii and napoleon ii. russia and france agreed among themselves on the joint restoration of the dome of the church of the holy sepulcher, which was largely responsible for this. time, and in 1865 work began, money was allocated, the project was agreed upon, and in 3 years a dome was erected, which we can see over jerusalem today. more than a century and a half have passed since then, during which time russia has experienced two world wars, revolution, perestroika and other socio-political upheavals. east jerusalem with its shrines became part of the territory of the israeli state.

centuries , representatives of various russian classes specially made the products. the grandiose complex consisted of ten church lamps. the first is four meters long, three furious. nikodily was created by order of the moscow merchant samoilov. when restorers took on

panikodil, they discovered insert notes in church slavonic on the artifacts. for example, here it is written that this ponycodile was created with the money of orthodox christians christians, at the ovchinnikov factory in 1892 in moscow. when our restorers saw this, they made it worse for ovchinnikov, how can i correct ovchinnikov, you don’t even know how best to make it here, because he is a great master, it hung there until 1939, and then was lost for many decades , only at the beginning of 2023, during preparations for the creation of the jerusalem patriarchate museum, the metal parts of the lamps were discovered in a disassembled, extremely ruined state. having learned about

the amazing find, the patriarch of jerusalem, theophilus ii wished to decorate it again. from russia will be able to cope with the restoration of this work of art better than others, we restored it like a phoenix bird, it is from the ashes, we also have all these lamps, they were in a deplorable state, for the restorers, i have already communicated with them, for them it is such an honor , they told me about this themselves, you know, for us ovchinikov it

’s like fauberge, only in church, jewelry art, and for them it’s...

condition and so on, and even in some elements here, especially here, it’s not even you can see the enamel in what condition it is, for example , so you need to work very tactfully, because on copper alloys usually the gilding is held very unreliably, well, after 100 years you need to be extremely careful, well, well , we’ll put everything on the candlesticks and make it beautiful, because they are all very... it is important that they look and we will do all the good wiring, because the wiring that is, well, this is not this, does not pass any fire safety standards. as a result, seventy-two spark plug ponikodiles were electrified, soon before our specialists were faced with a new task: to install

the lamps in their original place; for this purpose , scaffolding was erected, found on the dome. the old fasteners turned out to be unreliable, so new ones had to be installed. the process of hanging the multi-ton chandelier took 2 weeks. this work was carried out by specialists who had undergone training for high-altitude work. even our film crew was allowed to work in the dome only after high-altitude instruction. in order to work under the dome of the church of the sepulcher, we had to wear specially. ammunition and construction helmets , extraordinary height, and until recently, golden mosaics, domes were hidden from the eyes of believers, but now, thanks to our domestic specialists, everyone who comes to jerusalem for the great holidays, everyone who looks up will be able to see

not only the image savior, but also mosaic images of the first archbishops. holy city, it was on these steel rings, mounted in golden mosaic niches under the dome of the church of the holy sepulcher, that same huge brass russian chandelier hung, weighing more than two tons, approximately the same weight as a car or a jeep, hung over the heads of believers and pilgrims at a large, quite symbolic height of 33 m, here we are dealing with the greatest shrine. and of course with a work of art, yes, that is, we must understand that those mosaics that are in the dome, they should look exactly the way that, in general, will reveal them . best sides and will emphasize their significance for world culture and for the many believers who come to the holy sepulcher, which of course is the greatest shrine for the whole world and for all

christians, and specialists worked here , of course, a lighting architect, and engineers who selected the devices themselves, equipment, equipment, yes, the necessary communications, one of these specialists, lighting artist natalya nikiforova , what a person should see, hide what does not need to be shown to visitors, we have developed special possibilities so that

you can shine with white light, create an image of airiness, large volume, space, solemnity, evening lighting, that which is festive lighting, it allows you to highlight and highlight the architectural features of the building. the chandelier is a real masterpiece, it is a work of art that has been restored. the russian team came and restored it, thank god it’s working.

the result exceeded our expectations. now we can enjoy this beautiful view. i really like everything. the restorers did an excellent job. we must preserve and continue the traditions that bind us... specialists had to in the conditions that began this, despite the fact that ours are working in the middle east of hostilities, now

our restorers continue to work there, the first thing i suggested, of course, is that our restorers take all the workers, but now they are safe, they don’t want to leave, they want continue to work, we have a supply of materials, we have restorers who work with icons, people. they want to come there and want to continue their work there, but i think this is visible, this is the call, this is nothing with which it probably cannot be compared, this is impossible order a person to do something, but they still regard it as something a little different , it’s not just work, it’s a very pleasant job for them, a very honorable job for them and apparently vital, this line is christian, it is located inside a person russian, this is the russian gene, help.

who was the guarantor of orthodoxy, yes, russian orthodoxy, he gave guarantees, even to the serbian church, that we will always protect and help them, here we see now this policy, this is not politics, not even politics, this is probably the meaning of life, we are immensely grateful to the russian craftsmen for the work they have done, restoring such an important element of the interior decoration of the temple, we...

those who work here under the arches of the temple, those who scrape off the patina bit by bit, making it shine again, restore , the lost, the lost is found, those who , overcoming obstacles and distance, strive for the main shrine of the christian world, even in troubled, dangerous, tragic times, know that spring will come, great saturday will come, the fire will shine from the tomb again lord the light of thousands of lamps of candles will play and be reflected in the holy faces of the imale chapels, the carved hay above the edicule, the chapel of the tomb, the renewed ponikodils will be lit under the arches of the kaphalikon, the bell will float over the ancient city, the sacred fire from the holy sepulcher will spill out of the gates of the temple, the patriarch of jerusalem will bring out the festive gospel , and they will read st. john chrysostom. where is death, your

sting, hell, where is your victory? and first here, in the jerusalem church, sunday, and then throughout the orthodox world, it will sound: christ resurrected and again life will overcome death.

investment rating, economics, through a specific story, we can reach people, we often talk about money, the amounts are serious, there is a clear clear signal in russia. is russian industry capable of replacing foreign suppliers? it is necessary to mobilize all resources, give me a recipe in general, this is how to achieve what you have achieved, it seems to you that you are on top of the world, you got up, dusted yourself off and went, is russia ready to change, is evolution taking place in any structure?

we continue our review of orthodox news believers today. christmas eve is a time of strict fasting, but it ends with the onset of darkness or the appearance of the first star in the sky, which symbolizes the bethlehem star that rose at the moment of the birth of jesus. this coming night , festive services will be held in orthodox churches. they are especially long and are completely dedicated to the upcoming holiday. the main christmas service in the cathedral of christ the savior will be led by patriarch kirill. in moscow, 550 churches will be open this coming night, and it is expected that they will be visited.