st. sophia cathedral in 1985, acousticians came, studied the acoustics of the st. hia cathedral, this is such a medium-sized instrument, that is, it has three manuals, which are played with the hands, a foot keyboard, a pedal keyboard, uh, where they play with the heel, the toe, uh, in general, there can be different combinations, our organ has 48 registers , these are 48 voices that, uh, sound in different colors, there is, for example, a beautiful one: a flute on the third manual, there is a wonderful oboe, also on the third manual, there is a wonderful cromhorn, or also an english horn. on the first manual we have a trumpet voice, very beautiful on the whole st. sophia cathedral, the general sonority of the organ can be turned on with one button, called tutti, and played. this is the echo, 4.5 seconds. the era of romanticism brought such a wonderful device to organ building as the walzer. by rotating just this roller, we can achieve great things. that is, a large amplification of sound, for example, an organization can have both hands and legs occupied, and switc

st. sophia cathedral.hose music is on repeat on radio and television, the song of the year in belarus is among the winners , a graduate of our x-factor. the situation on the lithuanian border remains tense after the neighboring country closed two more checkpoints. the line of trucks is not moving. one gets the feeling that their border guards are deliberately creating a congestion, because according to the norms it is necessary to register half a thousand cars in each direction, that is, during normal work it is possible to unload the crossings , especially since the employees were freed from closed checkpoints, they could be redirected to the operating ones, as they did belarusian country. at the entrance, vehicles are launched into our checkpoint along the entrance, ready to accommodate any number of passengers. the team from the braslovsky district was recognized as the best in 2023, the participants were awarded a diploma and a challenge prize. we are 3-4 km on the border, our squad is the largest, abo

st. sophia cathedral was dismantled into fragments and prepared for removal. removed from the cathedral, and so was the gold. they made souvenirs to send home, but the dove disappeared, it was found only in 2002 in madrid, imagine, it was returned, and it took its place inside the cathedral, well, on the bathhouse - this is its copy. so, regarding unique items that are definitely worth seeing, the exhibition of the novgorod museum of the reserve contains, attention, the oldest icon of the state, the apostles peter and paul of the 10th century. the oldest book of the slavic world, novgorod psalts, it was discovered quite recently, and this is the first third of the 11th century, but the novgorod kremlin is not frozen in kamenyuk’s time, it lives, breathes, changes, in the warm season, every day at 3 o’clock you can watch the ceremony divorce of the streltsy guard, for more than a century the streltsy formed the basis of the novgorod garrison, children are driven around the kremlin on weekends in an electric car, a journey through history, guys... you really get

st. sophia cathedral in constantinople, held on the first sunday of great lent in 843. then the holy icons were solemnly brought into the cathedral and the due death was performed for them. in honor of this event, it is still celebrated today. a service that was called the rite of the triumph of orthodoxy, that is, the correct praise of god and confession of faith. the rite itself was established by patriarch methodius of constantinople, and to this day it is performed on the first sunday of great lent in all orthodox churches of our church. this service establishes not only the orthodox teaching on icon veneration, but all dogmas. resolutions adopted at seven ecumenical councils. so, on this significant day in the history of our church, we triumph, professing the doctrine of the true orthodox church, proclaiming glory to the eternal memory of all those ascetics of our faith who labored in establishing them. the triumph of orthodoxy is the day when we celebrate the victory of god's truth over human inventions. on this day we remember the words of christ the savior, who

st. sophia cathedral.services in walls of the same temple where the conciliar act was signed in 1839. after from the union. more than one and a half million belarusians converted to the orthodox church. the festive liturgy was led by metropolitan of minsk and zaslavsky, patriarchal exarch of all belarus veniam. remembering this historical fact, we remember with gratitude to god how the uniates reunited with orthodoxy. and at the same time, we think and care about how we can preserve this peace and harmony. in society, including interfaith. the celebrations continued with scientific readings in polotsk state university. the speakers spoke about the history of the landmark event. the premiere of a documentary film about the activities of metropolitan joseph semashko took place. it was he who played an important role in uniting the believers of belarus. the texas wildfire has become the largest in state history. it has already destroyed 435. two people died in the fire. burnt out. dozens of farms and thousand

st. sophia cathedral, or rather on the walls of its bell tower.se, are shocked, they say why exactly in the center of the ukrainian capital everyone is on... and catherine the great, they will destroy novorossiya, they will find imperial eagles and hit them with a hammer, they will fight with stalypin’s grave, because this is alien to them. true, orlov already seemed to have managed to justify the special explanatory teams, they say, according to the research of independent scientists, heraldry is not russian at all, byzantine, and there is absolutely nothing to worry about. but let's let's see, the double-headed eagle was indeed the coat of arms of orthodox byzantium, but it was depicted either... without attributes or with one crown or at most two. in turn, the distinctive feature of the russian sovereign eagle, as is known, is the scepter, the orb of three crowns. this variation became a symbol of the russian state at the end of the 15th century, and a coat of arms in the second half of the 16th century, when ivan the terrible reigned. meanwhil

st. sophia cathedral, or rather on the walls of its bell tower.y... why exactly in the center of the ukrainian capital, in front of everyone’s eyes, flaunts the symbol of the aggressor state, especially sofia, the matter is not limited to, the eagles of the city spread their wings in the kiev-pechara lavra, at the belfry of the holy cross monastery in poltava, some occupation, nothing less. ukraine itself appeared together with the bolsheviks, the current government is the creation of the bolsheviks, they took from the bolsheviks all the worst and all the worst, they will endure. monuments to peter i, and catherine the great, will destroy novorossiya, they will find imperial eagles and hit them with a hammer, they will fight with the grave. lypin, because it is alien to them. true, it seems that the special explanatory team has already managed to justify orlov, they say, according to research by independent scientists, heraldry is not russian at all, but byzantine, and there is absolutely nothing to worry about . but let's see, the double-headed e

st. sophia cathedral, more precisely on the walls of its bell tower.e, are shocked, they say why exactly in the center of the ukrainian capital is showing off in front of everyone’s eyes? a symbol of the aggressor state, especially sofia , the matter is far from limited, the eagles proudly spread their wings and... poltava, some kind of occupation, no less. ukraine itself appeared together with the bolsheviks. and the current government is the creation of the bolsheviks. they took from the bolsheviks everything that was terrible and everything that was worst. they will demolish monuments to peter i. and catherine the great, they will destroy novorossiya, they will find imperial eagles and hit them with hammers... they will fight with a hammer against the grave of stalypin, because this it’s alien to them. true, orlov already seemed to have managed to justify the special explanatory team, they say, according to the research of independent scientists, heraldry is not russian at all, byzantine, and there is absolutely nothing to worry about . but let's se

st. sophia cathedral, in addition, on mikhail boychuk street...troyed, where the sbu officers were again hiding. it was loud in the dnieper region, near rybalsky island, and, as you know, the office of the gur terrorist budanov operates there. there are interesting targets in the solomensky district, this is the patrimony of the ministry of defense of ukraine, and finally it could not do without the defeat of the zhulyany airport. it is considered a convenient platform for air defense systems in the open area; nothing interferes with the radars; the vehicles themselves were repeatedly hidden in huge hangars, including. so that even the videos don’t leak too much, this speaks of work our intelligence that they eat their bread and butter not in vain, but at the right moment, when no one was waiting, they worked for these purposes, a similar picture in odessa, according to the assurances of the bandera authorities, russian weapons attacked a recreational area by the sea, which led to injuries four civilians, but let's listen. secondary detonations, h

st. sophia cathedral.ikhail boychuk street, according to available information, it was destroyed civil defense headquarters, where the sbu officers were again hiding. it was loud in the dnieper region, near rybalsky island, and, as you know, the office of the gur terrorist budanov operates there. there are interesting targets in the solomensky district. this vodchina, the ministry of defense of ukraine finally did not do without the defeat of the zhulyany airport. it is considered a convenient platform for air defense systems in the open area; nothing interferes with the radars; the vehicles themselves were repeatedly hidden in huge hangars, including by american patriots. we will never receive confirmation from the ukrainian on the other hand, that they came to the sbu building, gur, to the airport where the air defense is located, because they learned to tighten the nuts so that even the rollers wouldn’t loosen too much. this speaks about the work of our intelligence, that they eat their bread and butter

st. sophia cathedral, and his son nikita, also an archpriest, he is the rector of the catherine cathedral already in the temple, now on his sixtieth birthday, we sat with him, drank tea, talked, then my wife and i went home to st. petersburg, changed clothes we went to our parents in priozersk. some inevitable summing up, maybe , well, in general, this is your phrase, i thought a lot about life these 10 years, probably all these thoughts, they somehow result in a conversation, what’s with father gennady, there, when you walk there in the refectory... the confessor treats me so gently, if only he could take me and somehow rein me in, somehow instruct me, then suddenly i understood all his wisdom, i realized that this is exactly what should be done with me was to behave, but this is a very difficult relationship, in fact, very kind, good, human , difficult, very grateful to him for the way he feeds me, for the way he... exposes me, sometimes gently, sometimes harder, sometimes just like that, sometimes encourages, all this is for the good , then i come to this, you just need to think carefu

st. sophia cathedral, and we will go there now. 360 years ago, on the site of a wooden bell tower, it burned870 did the ambitious archbishop, with the very interesting chemical name pallady, order the bell tower to be completed by 30 m, so that it would become the largest in the diocese. the bell tower turned out to be a little gothic; in fact, gargoyles could nest on it. the real pride of valagzhan is its ancient bells, which have been preserved despite everything. at first, peter ii wanted to pour vologda bells into cannons, but fortunately the archbishop gabriel did not do this. he sent peter i a note from his bishop's court and thereby exceeded the plan and received a letter. and then the komsomol activists wanted to throw down the bells from the bell tower from ours, but fortunately the museum workers also did not allow this to happen. but behind me. the most beautiful, large, festive bell, it was cast by ivan matorin himself, but unlike another work of ivan matorin, the tsar of the bell, our bell turned out to be stronger, beautiful, however, the whole city is in full view, the main ar

this one the so-called ukrainian baroque, well, the main symbol in general is mikhail. the cathedral on st. sophiaattern can also be traced somewhere, everyone declared it an empire style. ukrainian empire style is hot ice , it is something that cannot exist , due to its origin, so to speak, because the word empire comes from the term empire, this is the imperial style, this is the first half of the 19th century, it was napoleon who first of all began to actively introduce it , this is such... comeback here to greco-roman roots, here we see columnar ones, we see outstanding ones in the sense of pelasters, we see a lot of things, but the main thing that the empire style carried in itself is such a victorious ornament, and a military spirit, these are shields, why stalin, probably after the war, well, even before stalin, this is still after napoleon, it was called, by the way, alexander’s classicism, in my opinion, because alexander i began to introduce it in russia. these are shields, these are helmets, the most important symbol of the empire style is the eagle, if we see an eagle, we we see column