much about the lord love and blessing, patriarch of moscow of all arusia and pimen.f the millennium since the baptism of russia was celebrated on a grand scale in many soviet cities. union. the most active events took place in moscow and leningrad. a live broadcast of the celebration was launched on central television. more than a thousand journalists were present at the celebration, 446 of whom were citizens of foreign countries. it should be noted that not a single celebration in the future had such a scale. throughout for weeks, festive services took place in all moscow churches. all night vigils took place on june 11, 1988. the closing of the holiday took place on june 12; by that time , almost the entire hierarchy of orthodox churches in the world had gathered in the soviet capital; it was the largest christian gathering, which is difficult to compare with other events of a similar nature. at this point, it would seem that we should have stopped with all our disputes, but we did not stop. no matter how goboric the soviet may seem power, throughout its existence