yes, in your pastoral practice , do we succeed in this, because we usually crawl towards the end of lent, i can tell from myself when it’s paska, when it’s not because of food, of course, that’s it, that is, it works out , what is wrong, by the way, here it is precisely the christian specificity of fasting as a spiritual practice that manifests itself, the fact is that abstaining from food, bowing - well, it’s like praying, as if bowing in itself.

some other manifestations of religiosity, this is not a purely christian story, after all both muslims and jews, representatives of other religious movements fast, which is actually a christian feature of fasting, and it lies precisely in the fact that when you cheerfully begin fasting, yes, by the end of fasting you understand that you have the strength, lord, there is almost nothing left, you can barely crawl, here, here you begin to experience what the virtue of humility is, because humility is not humility, not some kind of artificial self-abasement, the word humility after all, it comes from the concept of measure, measure, yes, when, when, on the one hand, i know my measure , i understand how small it really is, by the end of lent i begin to experience, if i really approached this matter responsibly, i begin to understand that the power of god really does work in weakness.

the final one, in which the fast ends, the more people try to take part in the service, the longer the line for confession, the more people want to receive communion, the more intense this very spiritual communication becomes, and of course, of course, the closer the holiday, the less and less strength becomes, and you now understand that you can’t do it without christ’s help, because well, your strength has arrived, after all, that’s what i shared, this is a man... fatigue is in the parishioners, you’re

really in during the fast they are trying to feel it? you know, the people who , as it were, endure this feat, the closer the holiday gets, it’s as if they become more transparent, brighter, this grace of god, it seems to begin to bloom through them, because the person has worked hard, tried, of course, that physical strength is exhausted there, spiritual ones are already certain, but... the work has been done, and the person is probably tired somewhere, but some kind of amazing compensation occurs with the grace of god, when a person somehow loses his pride, selfishness and admiration puts me aside a little, lord, well , that’s how good it really is that the holiday is approaching, i would need the strength to do this, and to do that, and not only go to the service, but also to pray there at home, and to do something for my family to please and help those who are in this needs, not for yourself... just please

concentrate on yourself, but try to share this expectation of the holiday with other people and, well, become according to the word of st. seraphim, right? “save yourself and many around you will be saved and become a conductor of god’s grace. it seems to me that it is also very important not to torture loved ones with fasting, children, especially, well, it’s true, many torture, no, torture, not in the sense of not letting them eat, but many, especially teenagers, parents begin to, well, suddenly try to try them, uh, you’re doing this and that, and it’s the other way around, some kind of reverse, either because it’s difficult for them, they need everyone around them to do the same.” wait, in my opinion, shmilyov’s nephew ivzheten kutyrin recalls in his memoirs that during lent he was fed with lenten eggs, there’s lenten something else... then, yes, yes, no , it’s lenten, the chicken is fasting and will lay lenten eggs, but on the other hand, it seems to me that shmilev wrote the summer of the lord in very

hungry times for himself in exile, because there is a lot of concentration there , yes , there’s a lot going on in this food industry different things, well, because it makes me so proud. i think, my fathers, we had all this in russia, and that means, yes, but on the other hand, all these fasters, then in the seventeenth year, what they organized, many of them, no, in this sense there are much more of me , we don’t know everyone , i like chekhov’s, uh, a wonderful story about christmas time, when you remember, when he’s there and the crust is there and he spreads all this on him, he cooks, so they put vodka , that’s it, that’s it, that’s it for a long, long time being described, the title of the story slipped my mind, it’s already wait, he grabbed apoplecticly this is how the czechs are the czechs, but at the same time this is the czechs with some kind of czechs can be assessed differently from a christian perspective, but this is of course a deeply christian story expressed in such a well, partly foolish form, yes, because that here he is all now

and here is the christmas post, the topic on which we have gathered today with our thoughts ksenia alferova, priest anthony borisov, i am vladimir ligoida. if you like to collect thoughts with us, go to the first channel website 1tv.ru, there you will find all episodes of our podcast. we continue, you know , yes, why is clean monday, the first day of lent, because it is necessary to clean everything modest, why yeah, because they prepared so much for the ritual, so on monday the curtains were closed everywhere on the windows and most importantly on the icons, so that god doesn’t see, yes, how we are cleaning up, yes, hence the clean monday, how it was permeated, anyway, well, how i... i caught myself just reading this feeling that it’s still now, when you say something else about god, it makes many people feel like, well , well, they don’t talk about this, or there’s a kind of pathos in these words, when after all , people lived with the feeling that well, he’s everywhere, well, he’s here here, well, that is, he’s everywhere every

day, and maybe it’s my fault there and i don’t go there or i don’t pray there in the morning in the evening, but as if during the day i still remember with him , oh, i’m sorry, this is such conscientiousness, there is a very good story. now i forgot nikifer folgin, there is a truth about, well the essence is the same, that is , it is about lent, but i think the same thing happened to this boy on christmas day, when he was sent on maundy thursday, he was sent to confession and that means no one knew, we are like that again, go back, well, that is, there is some things that one of them also doesn’t see and doesn’t know and will never know, the priest will certainly never know, but the child just lives in this atmosphere, the feeling that he is everywhere, but we did something bad, but we know that he sees us ashamed. doesn't matter inside himself, and he’s there very much, he talks about and he says, it also describes to him what the child feels before admitting that he ate the sausage, but i, well, the video gave me this, but he suffers from this, suffers terribly, well, not

from the fact that he and he cannot hide it, but because it’s still somehow a grown-up feeling, in my opinion , what is now is what i would like , for example, and it would be easier for me if these were the people around me, mind you... aka sees like parents, that is , everything seems to be so orderly, but at home it’s a little different , well, you see, there’s something to think about, because, as far as i understand, this is the practice of modern church life, the people who go to church, they confess, take communion much more often than they did before the revolution, before the revolution, by and large, fasting is four multi-day fasts. yes, there were people who served in the army, there was generally a fasting, confession, communion at some point, even for just for civilians it was enough to go to confession once a year and receive holy communion , so here we are in our idea of ​​pre-revolutionary russia, we have greatly outstripped it, what is the difference, very much, but if we have

people who take communion every sunday, well, it wasn’t, it wasn’t i don’t just say people like that when you say words, when you feel so bad from this little piece, it really burns through you, i talked about this, that... that he knows, that god sees, well, yes, no, well, this naturally, because the child grew up in this feeling, which now, perhaps , many of us are disciplined, but it is well... lost in many ways, this is a living, living god, of course, yes, of course, it is in these texts , and i you know, to unfortunately, our time flies by so quickly, at least when we have such wonderful interlocutors, i want to leave it on a literary note, don’t leave it there, there is such a thing as reading for lent, yes, here i am, for example, during great lent i've been re-reading augustine's confession for many, many years, but on rozhdestvensky is now thinking about what i should read, so i would like us to finish here, so that you would advise something or say: what are you going to or have advised from your so to speak large list specifically for the nativity fast, here is what i

could read , i’m talking about secular literature, well, for me, for example, that is, i think that even though you are the summer of the lord, this is a directly obligatory book for all holidays, and there are absolutely wonderful collections of christmas stories, and now many publishing houses are making them, they completely with them always a very good selection. they create this that is still correct and they are simpler, that is, not everyone will read theological literature, they create this correct, festive, so pure, they are very pure, ringing, as a rule everything, they have this correct feeling and preparation , and holiday and fasting, it is much easier with this feeling to do all these things that we should do during fasting, or rather, it creates in you the right feeling, you shouldn’t, but you want to spend these days exactly like this, so exactly this...

the truly religious backbone, the corset on which we often rely, must be

filled with sincere faith and charity. thank you very much, i usually ask questions and don’t answer, but here i would like to join you, it seems to me that the boy in christ on dostoevsky’s christmas tree is small, but so important for fyodor mikhailovich and maybe for all of us, so this one is amazing , sasha cherny, and kuprino, these are all our classics. well, we’ll have to do one more, we’ll record another program, thank you very much, dear friends, ksenia alferova, priest anthony

borisov, i’m vladimir ligoida, today we were gathering thoughts about the nativity fast and its main meanings, all the best, hello! this is a podcast of precious stories and i, the host, are the director of the all-russian museum of alexander sergeevich pushkin, sergei nikrasov. today we will talk about the tsarsko-selo lyceum. most recently, support was confirmed at the highest level for ideas to revive an educational institution in tsarskoye selo for training civil servants. about what it will be like. institution, we, of course, will not say what its programs will be, but we will focus

on the history of the lyceum on how this educational institution differed from many others. the lyceum arose at the very beginning of the 19th century, when emperor alexander i ascended the throne in 1801, he proposed... a program for transforming the country, but it turned out that in general there was no one to implement this program, there were no trained specialists. high government level, who could, with energy and knowledge of the matter, implement those reforms that the king was going to propose. serious reforms were planned, especially since the emperor’s main assistant in this matter was mikhail mikhailovich spiransky, an outstanding russian reformer, an outstanding

statesman of our fatherland, and that ’s it for him. the idea just came to mind to create a special educational institution, the main task of which, as he believed, should be the education of youth, especially destined for important parts of the public service. he thought that it should be, firstly, next to the royal palace, so that you can navigate. in response to all the changes that took place in state policy directly, and the choice fell on tsarskoye selo, in 1808 spiransky submitted his project for a new educational

institution to emperor alexander i. of course, the king did not react immediately. he needed to familiarize himself. with this document, to listen to the opinion of those dignitaries who were authoritative people for him, he gave it, of course, into the hands of count alexei kirillovich razumovsky, the then minister of public education, for one and a half for years there has been a discussion of the charter of the future educational institution, and i could not resist the temptation to take from the auxiliary fund of our ... museum a copy of this charter, which we are now leafing through, but since this is still at least an auxiliary, but a museum fund, it is necessary first of all put on gloves only then turn to this charter, the charter is a beautiful

work of art, the artist novoselov placed here not only the text that he suggested... but also various kinds of allegorical paintings made using the technique watercolors, and the charter is, of course, undoubtedly, such a work of art. here is a list of those subjects that should accompany training, in the list of these subjects, first of all, moral sciences. there are mathematical and physical sciences, arithmetic, geometry, algebra, there are historical sciences, russian history, foreign history, geography, chronology, there is the original

foundation of elegant writing, selected passages from the best writers with analysis of them. rules of rhetoric: penmanship, drawing, dancing, fencing, horse riding and swimming. the charter was signed by emperor alexander ii and the minister of public education, count alexei kirillovich razumovsky. the charter was signed on august 12 , 1810. ostrovsky palace, then the emperor went in the best mood to petergov for the holiday, and instructed spiransky to closely take care of lyceum affairs. it took a year and a half to select a staff of teachers,

it must be said that in 1808, when spiransky first proposed the charter of the lyceum. emperor alexander i, 12 of the best graduates of the st. petersburg pedagogical institute were sent for an internship to continue their education, as they stupidly put it, to foreign lands, to france, to germany, where they received this additional education for 3 years, and returned as people not only educated.

at the time, and even the treatise on eternal peace, which was somewhat sensational at that time, everything was already ready for the very day when the lyceum was supposed to open, however, first it was necessary to to determine the composition of students, at the beginning of january 1811 , an announcement appeared in moscow and st. petersburg newspapers about the creation of a new educational institution for representatives of the young russian nobility and young men aged 11-12 years who would like

to study in the person were invited to take exams, so it turns out that the minister of public education, who was involved in all the details of the creation of the lyceum, organized these tests directly at home, in tupor. razumovsky had a beautiful palace and park ensemble on the shore fontanka, this is literally opposite the current building of the large drama theater from the fontanka to the suburban avenue, it was a luxurious building where applicants for this high title of lyceum student began to gather. the exams were real. serious, a good half of these tests failed, but still 30 people were

selected for the first year, for the first graduation, and having received notification that they had been accepted for training, these boys, accompanied by their fathers or grandfathers, began to arrive to the royal village. since then, on the pediment of this building, the coat of arms of the lyceum, installed there in 1816, has been preserved

, this coat of arms of the lyceum was invented by yegor antonovich angelgard himself, he also came up with the motto of the lyceum for the common benefit, because it was for the common benefit that those boys who came were brought up to work to study at the lyceum. and finally, on october 19, 1811 , the solemn ceremony began, of course, first of all there was a divine service, and then all the guests gathered in the large hall of the imperial tsarsko-selo lyceum, in this hall, which we now see, at the table were the most honored guests, emperor alexander,

for everyone he immediately awarded one professor kunitsin with the order of vladimir. our story about

the tsarskoye selo lyceum continues.

lectures alternated with general walks in the park in any weather , they had physical games, of course, mainly in the so-called fence, now here we see this rare , one-of-a-kind watercolor, which represents the fence, as it was called then, because they surrounded this piece of the grove with a fence, here is an image of this place from the time alexander sergeevich pushkin studied there, one of

the important subjects in... was drawing and drawing was taught by a man who simultaneously held the position of senior inspector, while being a senior tutor, he had an apartment in the lyceum on the fourth floor, precisely in his students sometimes gathered in this apartment; quite a few hours were allocated in the curriculum for drawing, but since every evening... from 7 to 10 there was free time in the evening, sergei gavrilovich chirikov, the senior tutor’s drawing teachers, gathered together, told various stories, and he gave them pencils, paper, almost every evening they added drawing exercises, and they really drew absolutely delightfully, here in front

of us is one of these drawings, the apostle, depicted by ivan malinovsky, and another drawing, the head of an athenian warrior, belongs to a pupil of lomanosov, the question immediately arises, what about pushkin, we know his drawings, later drawings, here is his early drawing, drawn by alexander pushkin, a dog with a bird, this drawing on a given topic was performed by alexander, i must say that... others were added to the number of compulsory subjects, why? because in fact, speaking in modern language, the lyceum was a very successful innovative project in the field of pedagogy at the beginning of the 19th century, the most important thing was to discern in the student his inclinations, his abilities and to do everything possible to ensure that these

abilities...

diplomats, not to mention prince alexander mikhailovich gorchakov, the future minister of foreign affairs, poets and poets came out of the rice delvik, poet kihelbeki. and, of course, the brilliant poet pushkin. pushkin did not have to study poetry, but he had to learn many other things, and most importantly, he did not have to be distracted by what was useless to him; in his memoirs, ivan ivanovich pushchin writes about how professor kartsev once called him to the blackboard, and pushkin had to solve the equations, he puffed for a long time, could not express anything when the professor asked him: well, what does x equal? pushkin answered zero with a smile. well, pushkin, in my class everything ends in zero, the professor said, sit down and write poetry. pushchin, by the way, recalls that thanks to professor kartsev for not tormenting pushkin.

pushkin really wrote poetry; the tsar’s village, of course, became his poetic homeland, and not without reason in one of the versions of the eighth chapter of eugene. pushkin wrote: in those days, in the darkness of the oak groves near the passages flowing in silence in the corners of the lyceum passages, the muse began to appear to me. then, in the final edition, these words began to sound differently, in those days in the mysterious in the valleys in the spring, with the calls of swan, nearby waters, shining in silence, the muse began to appear to me, but still in the corners of the lyceum passages. or near the tsarskoye selo parks , it’s still here, in tsarskoe selo, and it’s not for nothing that pushkin called it his fatherland, as well as the fatherland of all the lyceum students, his comrades, it was here, this is the sacrament of

the birth of the pushkin muse, it just happened, i must say that pushkin greatly valued his friendship with his fellow students... and of course, it was a great joy for him to celebrate this birthday of the lyceum, like a big, joyful holiday. in one of his poems, pushkin wrote in chernovek: “i am a holiday, i establish order.” and this order of the holiday of october 19, established by the poet, was indeed important and holy for all lyceum students. however, what kind of holiday? it was like this: exactly a year after graduating from the lyceum, they gathered to celebrate this event, the opening day of the lyceum, and they liked it so much that they decided to gather

until their death, constantly together and celebrate this day. pushkin, when he was in st. petersburg, he i was always with my comrades on this day , october 19, and not only that. he always kept minutes of this meeting, minutes that sometimes ended with humorous words, well , for example, once, when he had to go to the tver province, after the celebration of october 19, pushkin completely filled out the minutes, at the end he added four lines, fervently praying to god , the lyceum shouted hurray, goodbye, brothers, on my way. it's time for you to go to bed. pushkin’s biography developed in such a way that, of course, sometimes he was forced to be absent from these gatherings for reasons very respectful. this was the case, for example, in

1825, when pushkin was in exile in mikhailovsky, but three of you, friends of my soul, were embraced here by me, so the house is disgraced. and of course we cannot help but remember this friendship, since in the person, which was, as we have already said, a closed educational institution, the dormitories were on the upper fourth floor, it was there that pushkin’s room and

pushchin’s room were separated only by a thin partition, so talking to each other in the evenings, or from the very morning, they discussed some important things for them things , after the decembrist uprising, in which ivan ivanovich pushkin took an active part, he was sent to katarga, the first person who met him at hard labor in chetinsky ostrog, as ... ivan ivanovich pushkin himself writes, was his

friend alexander pushkin. in his memoirs , pushchin writes that on the first day of his arrival in chutinsky ostrog, alexandra grigorievna muravyova, the fourth cousin of alexander sergeevich pushkin and wife, decembrist muravyov, born countess chernyshova, came to the fence, and held out a piece of paper, on this piece of paper ivan ivanovich. we continue the conversation about the tsarskoe

selo lyceum, with you sergei nekrasov. we just remembered how alexander sergeevich wrote about pushchin, who was the first to visit him in exile. and then he writes about korchakov, because prince alexander mikhailovich gorchakov, having arrived in pskov, let pushkin know about this, and pushkin met with him, and did not forget to say about it in that very poem on october 19, which is this hymn to lyceum friendship, lyceum anthem. tygor chakov, lucky from the first days, praise to you, the shine of cold fortune did not change your free soul, you are still the same for honor and friends, we have a different path, a strict fate has appointed us, entering life, we quickly parted ways, but not by chance, we met on a country road and embraced brotherly. of course, neither one nor the other

knew that it was his holiness prince alexander mikhailovich gorchakov who was destined to become the last lyceum student who celebrated the day of the lyceum, exclusively in solitude, who outlived all his friends. pushkin also remembers in this poem about anton delvig, his own. anger is alien to everyone, like

a homeless orphan, under the storm i bowed my head languidly, and waited for you , the prophet of the perm maidens, and you came, inspired son of laziness, my delvik, your voice awakened the heat of my heart, soothed for so long, and i cheerfully blessed my fate , the service of the mus does not tolerate vanity, the beautiful should be majestic, but youth advises us, crafty, noisy, dreams make us happy, we will come to our senses, but it’s too late, sadly we look back, not seeing traces there, tell me, wilhelm, is it not what happened to us, my dear brother, by muse, by fate, that’s his name another friend, another poet, his police nickname was kyuchlya.

precisely depicts kuchelbecker, who with a pistol came out of sinata square, and next to him was rayleigh, the poet, one of the leaders of the december. uprising, pushkin knew nothing about this uprising, he didn’t even feel anything, but somehow he felt an urgent need to go to st. petersburg, and he ordered sanya to be harnessed, he had already completed the relevant documents, he sat down in the sana, and the woman with an empty bucket crossed the road, a bad omen, pushkin got angry, then

the hare began to rush, literally in front of him, and alexander sergeevich canceled his decision , returned back, wrote in two evenings, on december 13 and 14, he wrote count nulin, when the poet learned about the events in st. petersburg, he, having the habit of putting the date of writing his works , he added a phrase that is quite often remembered: there are strange rapprochements, telling this story, and of course, küchlü recalled, probably recalled that duel that...

the duel began, just as shown here, kihilbecker began to aim at pushkin, delvik was a second, paodel was standing, and kuchelbecker, being myopic, his hand was shaking, he could not shoot, pushkin even turning to delvik said: “delvik, take my place, it’s safer here, but then a shot rang out, glory god, miss, and pushkin, throwing the pistol , ran to hug kuchelbaker, no, shoot, shoot, kuchelbaker shouted, how can i shoot when the pistol is already covered in snow, as contemporaries recall, several versions of the story about this duel have been preserved, but the duel really was and

it was literally a year after graduating from the lyceum, here again kuchelbecker -

and those caricatures, those manuscripts, those lyceum relics that were collected from yakovlev, they really lay claim to later becoming museum exhibits, and that’s exactly what happened. the last time alexander sergeevich pushkin was at a meeting of lyceum students was on october 19, 1836, 25 years have passed, remember your friend, from that time when... our circle of fate was connected, to which, to which we were witnesses , the play of a mysterious game, confused peoples rushed about, kings have risen and fallen, the blood of people, now glory, now freedom, now pride, scarlet, altars, this is a fragment of a poem that...