there are only five stores in russia. this, of course, is the oldest and most revered kiev-pechora lavra, then the pochaev trinity-sergius lavra near moscow alexander nevsky lavra in st. svyatogorsk lava was called his monastery, then we had no idea. what will be the future of this legendary monastery? watch a snippet of our film.

in the eighth century byzantium began a struggle with the veneration of orthodox icons and many monks fled from the persecution of the authorities of caesar to the north. they began to dig caves. in these chalk mountains, over time, it turned out that the entire mountain was riddled with passages of the underground cell and the temples occupied five tiers. this is clearly visible on the layout. the svyatogorsk monastery stood on the border of possession from the beginning of kievan and then muscovite rus, as they used to say beyond the line, monks from the steppes repeatedly raided it from these towers. they carefully watched the surroundings, the enemy could appear at any moment, so the charter of the monastery was similar in the military, very often monks became

soldiers who defended not only their abode but also the borders of the fatherland, these traditions have been preserved and now the charter of the monastery is still strict. there is almost military discipline here; monks are forbidden to show their faces without blessing, communicate with strangers, nothing worldly should distract them, pray, and the spiritual struggle of the cave was dug by monks who were looking for a place for more solitude to indulge. at the same time only prayer there reigns silence and nothing distracts. in one of these caves he spent 17 years in seclusion, father john in a dark cave among the sweet svyatogorsk rock of ereskha, monk john courageously fought against all temptations, he slept, he was in the vegas on

the straw in the coffin, fasting was an image, and prayer to god was the meaning of his life. for such a feat, his lord sent such a special gift of insight into the fate of those people who came to him to receive advice in their lives, many who received prayers for the healing of the disease, such as received health through the prayers of the reverend recluse. after 150 years in svyatogorsk lavra revere and glorify st. john the hermit , his power is here in a wooden ark. in honor of him, on august 24, a great church holiday was established. thousands of people from russia and ukraine come here specifically to celebrate the spiritual feat of john the recluse with a procession of the cross.

today, you see, is probably also a holiday. how many people are several, probably dozens of dozens, well, 10-12 thousand people gathered for me. today, despite the fact that it was raining and the weather was not very good. e, favorable, but today we see this people coming. e here in order to emphasize how the life-giving source emphasize these spiritual forces for further their human exploits. before the feast of st. john the recluse, we spent the night. in the courtyard of the lavra , ordinary people told us amazing things. how much this morning

will be at 6:00 am, this is the joy of the people. i've been coming here for four years now. so 1 2 in a month, when the soul needs to be nourished by grace, peace, love , patience from here, when you leave, it arrives. here in the world no one can piss you off, no matter what happens around you do not get annoyed. you love everyone all pitifully, thank god that they accept us here and how they make people out of monsters. uh, at least, as they say that when a person is born his face, then his face, and then you give birth so at least from the face, so that the face becomes far away, when it grows, uh, the level of

spirituality is very high, but although to find his own face, that is. e my human self, my dignity and the correct concept of myself about people and about the world we live in. early in the morning pilgrims pray in the courtyard of the monastery before the start of the service, and the children are asleep, it is necessary to gain strength before the holiday. and degrees to everyone and every degree to the country from the smoothness of the

destructive coward of the flood of the fire of the sword of the invasion and to the tribes and internecine strife among the hedgehogs, the merciful ones favored in the departure of the good and the man to our beloved god turn away every angry movable and delivered. and your righteous coming and remember. lu y we sl,

there is a shrine in the monastery of the miraculous icon of the mother of god of svyatogorsk, written by a monk with the holy mount athos preserved it in the time of terrible persecution of the church, and on october 4, 1992, the icon was placed in the assumption cathedral, decorated with many precious pendants of coins and crosses. everything. this was brought as a gift by the queen of heaven, a sign of love and thanksgiving for the healing received and the gracious help to many people, but there were other times when the monastery was a rest home back in 1903, for the catastrophe of the seventeenth year, the

athogorsk monks approached one elder and asked if we could on that mountain. we are building a church, why is the elder answered the temple i don’t see, but i see iron man. indeed, in 1927, the soviet sculptor ivan kavaleridze erected a monument to the bolshevik artyom on the mountain. the artyom mountains but nothing took root people knew these places, how the holy mountains of this place were disfigured, the domes were demolished on them, the crosses, of

course, were removed under the cinema. orchestral stage was dug, bathrooms were arranged in toilets. dressing room located. laughter was located, that is, to defile as much as possible, the self-consecrated place of the temple in the twenties , church bells were dropped, sawn , melted metal from them went to the production of bearings and cardan shafts for cars and tractors of the first soviet five-year plans. today, of all the bells in the monastery, only one ancient bell has been preserved. and in the church of the intercession, on the most holy place in the altar , a mud bath was set up. two

bathtubs were placed here and filled with mud, people were lowered there, trying to heal their body, not their soul. during the persecution, by some miracle, the shrines that once filled the monastery were preserved. the icon of st. nicholas the wonderworker from the caves from the chalk pillar was installed in the iconostasis of the assumption cathedral, when the monastery was closed, the iconostasis was destroyed, and the image of the saint disappeared from the entire iconostasis. only one icon of the archangel gabriel remained; it was saved by a miracle. this icon is the only one that was preserved from the legislation of the assumption cathedral at the time when the monastery was closed, wooden things from the temples. here are the icons and parquet floors. she carried all this out to the stoker for heating, and just like yesterday, when she saw that a whole icon had been brought. they are broken, he granted her to save and hid a bunch of coal, and at the

partner i don’t know that the icon is hidden there, he is scooping up. he says he drew a shovel under the very icon. and when he took out this icon, he saw that it was an icon. he saw that the shovel depicted beauty only around the clothes and around the face, but at the same time did not affect the images themselves, not the face, and not the clothes of the archangel, and he saw such a special the sign is already a miracle of god, and he kept this icon for the rest of his life and passed it on to his descendants. cinema clubs were in the holy place. this is horror. it’s just that we are suffering a terrible punishment for this now, which is why everything in our life is not going well, in general, the politics of our country, because everything has passed this lawlessness. holy russia , it is in heaven, and russia , ukraine, belarus, remained indivisible, not in heaven, not separate. that

is why the procession of the cross will begin from all corners of our holy motherland and end on the feast dormition of the mother of god, e, always the trinity of the moscow lavra. this will be the repentant procession, in which all orthodox must bring repentance for the murder of the royal family and return it to our orthodox native origins. no. nothing is worse when external forces. two orthodox nations are colliding, and on the line of confrontation are the shrines of our orthodox world. so it happened with the svyatogorsk lavra. bishop olympiy became the first abbot after the revival of the monastery in the early nineties. today he received scheme and retired from the affairs of the nicholas officer,

who once served in st. petersburg under the last russian emperor since childhood. he was destined to carry the monastic cross in 1953 as an eight-year-old boy. he learned that he would restore the svyatogorsk monastery. lord , what kind of chairs with chemists sit in the 25th century, the boy recognized me many more of the elders of svyatogorsk, who were the heirs of the monastery survived the repressions of two penal servitudes, and titian hurts here and he was such a priest turned to me, even so with your finger, but you will do tights. well, who would have thought at this time that, having come at such a time that i, as the ruling bishop, would sign the first documents. this is the cathedral of the assumption even outside the household, then 18 years ago during an interview we heard the first warning about the

coming trials, but did not give it much importance, told us that it is impossible to split a single faith, divide blood peoples and destroy traditions that humiliate, uh and human dignity religious feeling, nationalists. they say that so they told me that i need to throw all these russians at least all of them on a calendar. who do you want the moscow saints peter alekseev to not know? who is peter alexei with the boyars of chernigov , they are our kievan rus after the fourteenth year, the pressure on the orthodox was stronger and stronger, and the brothers of the svyatogorsk lavra, the accusation was absurd for

the current authorities in kiev svyatogorskaya. lavra is a nest of separatism and agents of moscow, the proof is that the monks walk in cowhide boots. it's a sign belonging to the fsb devils boots, then 5 years ago, the maidan authorities, together with the american curators, wanted to reformat all the laurels in ukraine and make them obedient to the nazi regime attacked the kiev-pechersk lavra. i am an orthodox soul to jump, lord god of god cysts in 675 we hope that she and so on for cysts and us and you and our children and our hands.

you can, come to you, these our saints and such a member of the savior of your daughter. we approached svyatogorskaya but the lavra did not succumb to pressure. in the days on big holidays, the monastery feeds thousands of pilgrims; delicious and simple food is prepared here. after a late service. people come here to the courtyard of the monastery and share a meal together, no one remains hungry. today the monastery is a well-organized economy. there is a garden in which 600 fruit trees have their own apiary. it has a 60-year-old garden where the brothers grow tomatoes, cabbage, peppers and cucumbers. this year, the field and the neighboring collective farm were transferred to the monastery. flower-bearing cereals will be planted on it, in order for the apiary to flourish, a barn is being built so

the monastery can feed 116 monks and 400 workers who restore the monastery buildings, as well as all the pilgrims. a man who becomes a monk, he walks from the world. he is not interested. political events of the war are crises, he prays for all people for us for you to god but unfortunately, the events of the war battles also apply to such holy monasteries. during the clashes in the area of ​​the monastery, archimandrite galaktion died, he was the dean, laurels, monk, aristocles, nun, varvara wounded monks asaph anfilohi and very seriously wounded and radiacon olympius, high price. but

thank god, today it has been released, and the refugee who hid within its walls can, probably, freely leave it already. lord among the orphans , the retreating nazis blew up a pedestrian bridge that adjoined the seversky donets and connected the lavra itself and the city of svyatogorsk. well, i think they will restore it soon. the crime of the nazis destroyed the wooden church church, which was located in the ladoga monastery. amazing in

its beauty, a wooden skid of all the saints of the earth russian everything. this is the dormition svyatogorsk lavra, it has always attracted the attention of pilgrims, tourists and guests of the monasteries. perhaps this is the most unusual building of the holy mountain. skeet is unusually beautiful and even unexpected for these places of the temple, its places were assembled not by carpenters from massive pine logs and decorated with carvings in the traditions of ancient russian wooden architecture 16 -17 centuries. and this temple of all saints of the russian land was shot from a large-caliber machine gun with incendiary bullets, an armored car a goat drove up by the retreating nationalists to the armed forces of ukraine and fired a line in the middle of the dome of the temple. it burned down, and the nazis fled towards slavyansk, but this whole place, there are never many burnt churches on this earth, but their people always restored and came to pray. and

continued to live. then we filmed an amazing oak grove near the monastery. and we are witnesses of the dramatic history of these places - a grove of 500-year-old oaks by some miracle. these trees were preserved during the war, devastation and the revolution. maybe because the earth is considered fertile from this grove, svyatogorsky is clearly visible. monastery. he became the fifth lavra in the slavic land. have mercy.

i have ordered thousands of additional soldiers to be sent to germany poland to our allies on the eastern flank. circumstances require us to take decisive and immediate action. we achieved tactical surprise, that is, we launched the operation first instead of american troops. you are fighting the ukrainians, whose troops were armed by the americans, who receive intelligence from the americans, and to save the lives of civilians and ben to save the lives of the military themselves our opponents. we simply did not leave the main

goal of the operation to defeat this nazism. and most importantly, to defeat the west. russia day is celebrated today throughout the country, as well as in the liberated regions of ukraine in the donetsk and lugansk people's republics. and this is a volley

launch of calibers from the black sea at the military infrastructure of ukraine in france, the first round of parliamentary elections will the macron party be able to maintain a majority in the country's legislative body? without mcdonald's and period as now is the name of the fast food chain that replaced the american brand and what will they smell there? and also until the end of this hour, watch the film liberation about the most dramatic events of the special operation to protect donbass. russia day is celebrated all over the country concerts festival sports marathons historical reconstructions. and in the kremlin, according to tradition, today the president presented state awards and medals to heroes of labor who this year were awarded high ranks will tell elizaveta khramtsova. today is state day