church into orthodox and catholic, began several centuries before the baptism of russia.l become with the disappearance of byzantium. the main stronghold of the world orthodoxy, the largest orthodox state in the world, which we remain to this day. the music of russian prayer in church slavonic is the only thing that truly, truly unites us throughout the centuries. sacred connection, musicality, rhythm. from dorogomyshsky, what is tchaikovsky from musorsky, but we know that it is ours when we hear it, and something rises in our soul, something causes a smile of delight, and something squeezes tears of joy from our eyes. we shudder at the first sounds of tchaikovsky's first concerto, performed by an orchestra marinsky theater in... we remember, we feel the horror of the nazi invasion, hunger, cold, the heroism of besieged leningrad, when the seventh symphony of dmitry dmitrievich shestakovich, written there, breaks in. and doesn’t it emanate the romance of native spaces and the greatness of spirit at the sounds of rachmaninoff’s second concerto performed by the incomparable