that is, there are some moments when it’s really, really difficult to get into the color, this is of course a special, little comparable feeling, to leave your mark, even... invisible on the gospel, which was probably touched by the hands of peter the great, and which were held in their hands by all, without exception, the jerusalem patriarchs, 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 a real time capsule had been kept between the pages for centuries. letter dated 1600. this book, the great

mr. adrian, archbishop of the reigning city of moscow, patriarch of all russia and all northern countries, dada to the holy city of jerusalem, to the temple of the life-giving resurrection of the lord god our savior. the restored service holiday gospel is the very living symbol of russia’s inextricable ties with the holy land. these connections between russia, the russian church, the russian people and the church of jerusalem, the first church, which was also the holy sepulcher, have never been interrupted even in the most difficult times, now they mutual cooperation continues, it exists. a pilgrimage to the holy land has always, i think throughout the entire 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 are fine. we understand that

the pilgrimage itself took a long time, it was a long journey, 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 the holy land was akin to suicide , it was especially difficult for pilgrims in those days when palestine was captured by the turks in order to go to the holy city of jerusalem...

after the earthly life of jesus christ, he decided to found a new jerusalem near moscow, which would become the world center of 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. kelor, the trinity of the sergius monastery and diplomat arseny sukhanov committed several travels to the east and delivered to nikon the typoris model of temples. by the way, it was very unsafe.

journey, because if he had been caught there, he would have also been executed there as a spy, as an intelligence officer of another country, who, having arrived there, means taking some measurements, making some descriptions, it was a very dangerous moment, and yet in arsenevich sukhanov’s novels this was accomplished, therefore the most holy patriarch himself, without ever being there in the holy land, made this shrine, created this shrine. here in such a very close approximation and uniqueness, so that everyone who has been there, they testify that there is a very great similarity. his holiness patriarch nikon wanted to personify here, that is , architecturally embody the book of the apocalypse -

he asks for help in reading it, understanding it, he wanted to show what the heavenly jerusalem, the heavenly jerusalem is, where we should strive, how the righteous will promise there. patriarch nikon of moscow could not imagine that his brainchild would live two independent lives at once. in 1808 in the temple there was a devastating fire at the holy sepulcher, and the flowers remained only in ruins, and now the cathedral near moscow was taken as the basis for the restoration of the jerusalem one. some elements are reproduced exactly, others are slightly different.

church, sunday, for example, a holy place, golgotha, but it is decorated with russian church silver, and back in 1864, the russian consul yakovlev asked the patriarch of jerusalem whether

the silver to decorate golgotha ​​had arrived here in the church of the sepulcher? today russian restorers continue restore the priceless interior decoration of the church of the holy sepulchre. this is how our specialists gave a second life to the carved canopy with thirteen icons from finifti installed above the entrance to kuvuklyuya. 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 brother of emperor alexander ii. grand duke konstantin nikolaevich in may 1859. this is stoles. around 2003, we transferred the arc to a russian foundation for conducting small 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 at 18, we found her, we... restored her and returned her to the place where she should have been, because until that moment no one knew, it's a funny line. over the past years , almost all the enamel chambers and canopies have been damaged, many of them show traces from blows. 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 restoration processes that can be imagined, because firstly, you are dealing with, well, roughly speaking, ceramics, yes, which cannot forgive you

for some... then mistakes, the main task was probably before sizing, before, since the impal... uh, in some places was coming away from the metal base before gluing, clean it very well. this was all carried out in a deep vacuum at a negative pressure of -1 atmosphere, this is the usual pressure, but this is a deep vacuum, this is when air comes out - from under - the layer between the enamel itself and from the metal base, air comes out instead - glue comes in. this process is really not for the faint of heart, but nevertheless it’s all on the verge of a foul, but the result, the most important thing, we are the result we received a beautiful case, with trepidation we open the case with the restored arch, yes, it really looks like it did in

1859, when it was donated to the church of the holy sepulcher by the russian imperial family, st. petersburg imali. 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 in palestine, which was then under the protectorate of the ottoman empire, a russian spiritual mission was founded, churches and farmsteads were built, lands were acquired from biblical history. so on the mount of olives , near the place of the ascension of christ. 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, 1800.

the bells were so that there would be bell ringings, so where do you get the bells? this means that they were made in russia, they were transported to odessa there, that is, separately, then they were loaded onto a ship, and delivered to jaffa, this is a seaside town, they were loaded onto carts, these are our pilgrims, mostly pilgrims, they replacing each other, harnessed to these carts. these 50 km they delivered it all to jerusalem and there they were raised, and to this day on

holidays the bells ring 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, it could collapse on pilgrims at... threatened the shrine itself, but the roman catholics, who also had rights to the temple on sunday, did not allow the greeks to begin repair. the first earthquake occurred in 1845, the dome was completely destroyed, and the russians and the french agreed to restore it. such projects were incredibly difficult, but then still possible. alexander ii and napoleon ii. russia and france. we agreed among ourselves on the joint restoration of the dome of the church of the holy sepulcher,

which had done a fair amount of work by that time, so in 1865 work began, allocated money, agreed on the project, and in 3 years they erected the dome, which we can see over jerusalem today. more than one and a half centuries have passed since since then, during this time russia has experienced two world wars, a revolution, and perestroika. other socio-political upheavals. east jerusalem with its shrines became part of the territory of the israeli state. despite all these epochal changes, the spiritual ties of russian christians with the church of the holy sepulcher were not interrupted. then, after 1914, the flow of pilgrims stopped only a few such pilgrimages from russian christians abroad. so... after the ninety-first year, when the pale of settlement was removed from our country, here

once again, pilgrims began to come to the holy land in droves. now russian specialists are working on the dome of the church of the holy sepulchre, installing unique ponicodils. this is another russian miracle, which at the end of the 19th century was specially prepared by representatives of various russian classes. the grandiose complex consisted of ten church lamps. the first four-meter, three-tiered chandelier was created by order of the moscow merchant samoilov. when restorers took up the ponycodile, they found on the artifacts insert notes in church slavonic. for example, here it is written that this chandelier was created with the money of the orthodox.

having learned about the amazing find, the patriarch of jerusalem, theophilus ii. i wished to decorate the kafalikon again with these ponikodiles. on behalf of the head of the russian foundation of the holy archangel michael, elena milskaya, a team of specialists was quickly recruited to restore unique examples of church and applied

art of the 19th century. before this, the room was lit differently. significantly less majestic chandelier, the chandelier was made by russian craftsmen, therefore , it seemed to me that it was the team from russia that would 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 in a depressing state, for the restorers, i’ve already talked to them, it’s such an honor for them, they told me about it themselves, you know, for us... ae sheepskin workers it’s like faberge, only in church, jewelry art, and for them this is what it is life event, uh, they are very proud of it, and such an attitude, you see, this is one hundred percent, people are investing besides, this is not a question of finances, people told me, and restorers of sadness, says:

just buy us a ticket, we don’t even need money for restoration, of course, of course, of course , any work must... it is very difficult to determine under the oxides how much gilding remains, in what condition it is, and so on, and even in some elements here, especially here, you can’t even see the enamel in what condition it is, for example, therefore, you need to work very tactfully, because on copper alloys

the gilding usually holds up very unreliably, well, after 100 years it is necessary. be extremely careful, well , well, we’ll put out all the candlesticks, and we’ll do it beautifully, because they all look very unimportant, and we’ll do all the good wiring, because the wiring that we have is, well, that’s not it, it doesn’t pass any fire safety regulations , as a result, the seventy-two-candle chandelier was electrified, and soon our specialists faced a new task: to install lamps in their original place, for this purpose scaffolding was erected, old fastenings found on the dome turned out to be unreliable , new ones had to be installed, the process of hanging a multi-ton chandelier took two weeks, this work was carried out by specialists who had completed a training course for high-altitude work, even our

film crew work in the dome was allowed only after high-altitude... in order to work under the dome of the church of the sepulcher, we had to put on special climbing equipment and construction helmets, extraordinary height, and until recently the golden mosaics and 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 lifts... up will be able to see not only the image of the savior, but also the mosaic images of the first archbishops of the holy city. it was on these steel rings, mounted in golden mosaic niches under the dome of the church of the holy sepulchre, that huge brass russian ponikodilo weighed more than two tons, which is approximately how much they weigh

a jeep car, hanging over the heads of believers and pilgrims at a large and... 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 domes, they should look exactly like this in general, which will reveal their best sides and emphasize their significance for world culture and for the many believers who come to the holy sepulcher, which of course are... one of these specialists , lighting designer, natalya nikiforova , she has been working on accent architectural lighting for various museums

for more than 10 years, she created it in the victory museum, in the small large palace in tsaritsino, in the house of the muravyov apostle museum, but on such an object as the main christian shrine, and even at such a height, working for the first time, at the moment this is the highest degree. responsibility, the light should be delicate, it should highlight the architecture, highlight what a person should see, hide what should not be shown to visitors, developed special opportunities to be able to shine with white light, create an image of airiness, large volume, space, solemnity, evening lighting, so... which is festive lighting, it allows you to highlight and highlight the architectural features of the building, emphasize arches, show faces, that is absolutely two different

modes, and two opportunities for the visitor to see the temple from two aspects: the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not embrace it, again it destroyed the works of moscow... centuries illuminate the kafalihon under the arches of the church of the holy sepulchre in jerusalem. 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.

vital, this line, it , it is christian, it is located inside a person, a russian, it is a russian gene, to help others when they are in trouble, regardless of their weakness, their own shortcomings, or even their financial situation, everything equal to anything we will share a crust of bread, we can see this in besieged leningrad, we see this in the victory in the great patriotic war, that is , liberating europe to the end, and as if at our own expense, so one would think, it would be possible...

we will take on this case, it will be an honest detective story.

met at a residence near moscow with the families of military personnel killed during a special operation, invited the families to a festive dinner, this was reported by presidential press secretary dmitry peskov. so, orthodox christians celebrate one of the most important christian holidays - christmas, patriarch kirill addressed the believers. dear brothers and sisters, i warmly greet you all.