most dangerous development of church -state relations was your fellow countryman, metropolitan nikodim rotovetropolitan of leningrad and novgorod, when, being a very talented person, knowing several languages, possessing a phenomenal memory, able, as i already said, to quote akafestas of the divine service by heart, when this man was offered to become metropolitan of krutitsky and kolomna and move from ryazati to moscow, then... he asked to move to the then leningrad, theological academy in he graduated from this city, and knew that a terrible threat of closure hung over the theological academy. actually, the issue had already been resolved, reception had practically stopped, and for some, maybe weeks, or maybe and days separated the theological academy on the banks of the neva. closing and vladyka nikodim asks his holiness alexy for a blessing not to make this decision. connected with the church, because it seemed to everyone that nicodemus, as we called him then, was a protege of the authorities, he was probably sent here in order to completely destroy. you are not the church of god on the