Autumn walk
in the Abode of Dawn
Part two
Yes, I'm listening. The Town is listening.
It's important that Alexander Kachuk call me
between 11.00 and 13.00 about her letter to the Teacher.
We need to ask her few questions. I accept.
The information centre of the town
the future smithy
the future dentist's
So, what is going to be here in the corner?
This is still unpacked computer X-ray.
There is already such equipment in every clinic.
Here, everything is in the stage of preparation. Here is the chair.
Nothing significant.
You know, a little later, you can find here Dima with the computer
and he can tell you more.
The plenty of planks indicates that here is the saw-mill.
In certain time, there will be a day nursery.
Actually, it was built for a family,
but after that the United Family came to conclusion
that the day nursery needs a house.
the future day nursery
And the family decided to give it for a day nursery.
the house of the Teacher
In front of us it's the house of Yuri Panasenko.
Our famous master of pottery.
Here is his atelier, at the side.
With a large stove.
We are going to visit
Svetlana Babushkina one family come from Petersburg.
Svetlana Babushkina Varia and Sasha Staroverovs.
The first we hear is the voice of their son Fima.
It is completely unexpected for them.
Let's see what will happen.
May we visit you?
Come in. Wonderful, thank you.
Oh, you've already had guests.
I am already going, so come in.
Well then, let's get to know this family closer,
as I've already said their names:
Sasha, Varia and Fima.
Sure, we are beginning with the master of the house.
Is it a long time since you've come from Petersburg, Sasha?
How long have you been here, on the Mountain?
I came here in 1994
and I last visited Petersburg in 1995.
It makes already 8 years.
Well done.
And you have no intention to go back?
I cannot even answer this question straight away.
And do you like to live on the Mountain?
Yes. How long have you been here?
On the Mountain we've been living for more than 3 years.
What do you do,
some craft, profession or general work?
It is changing a lot. The work is so changeable.
From the winter to the spring sowing,
I worked as so called children's joiner,
I was making furniture for the school, the day nursery
and all the necessary carpentry.
All the summer, I worked in the Temple team
and from the villages guys were coming.
And now I'm working in the building,
I am a part of the building team,
now, there is a need to build.
It is so already for 3 years
I've not had any fixed occupation.
And it happens to learn many things.
Yes, I even made candles.
Really? Could you show us?
No, I cannot. We were making a liturgy and house candles.
That was a short period.
And now, in the winter, isn't there a need for candles
or you use already solar batteries?
It depends on the weather.
When there is no sun for a long time, right?
Yes, but now we can
charge the batteries at the saw-mill.
There is a generator there and we can live without candles.
Your major hardness is your meetings.
What are you solving there so much, what is so important with them?
To my opinion, this is the most important.
Indeed, all the rest can be done if you live elsewhere.
But such meetings can be held also in Petersburg?
Everything depends on the living conditions.
The life is differentt there and so the everyday situations.
And on the meeting you discuss these everyday situations?
But it's very hard to find elsewhere the conditions,
where the people live together in such way,
to live together like in one apartment, like one family.
We live so close to each other here.
We are always doing something together, we are building
and it occurs a mass of problems,
The people are so different, different levels of understanding,
different personalities, perceptions.
I mean, to reach agreement, to learn to think together,
this is a crucial problem, the most important.
The meeting, actually, is devoted to come to it.
Varia, let us dip into your chores.
How are you doing all of it? After your occupation in the nursery school,
how do you find time for your children?
What are you doing apart from it?
May be you know some craft?
The art of the woman, this is the house.
I like, certainly, sometimes to sew, to knit a little,
but this is usually only the evening,
because it takes half day
to cook the lunch, to do the house and the laundry.
This year already we've been growing vegetables,
very good, with the aid of specialist.
The problem with the children is very interesting here,
because there is no TV, radio here,
there is no money for books and other needs.
And the children, generally, are very attached to their mothers.
And this is the very problem.
But on the other hand, they are more tender.
He is three years old and he already has his own garden
and this year he managed to grow his own carrots, beetroot, onion.
But all of this is individual, the children are different.
As a rule, the summer - this is the garden and the house.
The winter I can spare time for the nursery school,
to work like master.
Is this what you were doing in Petersburg?
I have a degree in education.
Now in the Community it is very interesting the Club.
The Women's Club?
Yes, the same like the men,
there are different levels of perceptions, interests, ages.
And it's also hard, as the other women also expect a close view from you.
And here the range is great.
Daddy, take the constructor.
It's very interesting to touch the inward nature of the others,
to get to know each other, to share your experience.
And this is a very interesting creative work.
I suppose mainly the experience of communication with the husband?
Yes, the experience of life.
As to the Club, today they separated those who have come for the Club.
Can you tell us what is the Club like?
Isn't it some village club, where you get together to sing songs?
The wife of the Teacher Luba,
first gathered the women of Petropavlovka,
but now she is gathering the women here
and this is a man's, spiritual work,
where the women solve some interne problems,
share their problems and reach the idea
of how to solve them best.
Luba gives sometimes some methods of purely psychological kind.
There is a lot of work on the Last Testament
and this is good, because Luba approach all of it
like a real pedagogue, seriously and strictly,
with homework, compositions.
And the girls are very diligent, because the children
leave no other time to read the Scripture.
And this is very interesting.
For example, there was a topic for composition:
"What means to serve the husband?"
Yes, to serve your husband.
Another very interesting task, which very few of us could solve,
Luba asked to point out our seven positive characteristics.
It turned out that for a lot of us this is a big problem,
because the women don't see their merits.
Sasha, I know that you ring the bell here,
this is so unusual and interesting.
How long have you been doing that, how did you learn it?
I've been ringing even since my youth,
I was living in Petersburg and when they opened a temple,
I went there to ring the bell, but it was like hobby.
And when I came here,
one year after that,
as I told you, I went back to Petersburg again,
then I went to Suzdal and there I took a course for bell-ringers.
Just this moment there was a course for bell-ringers,
now I don't know whether there is such course.
In Suzdal I was working with the famous master Valerie Garanin.
He is ringing in the monastery St. Spas.
There is an excursion bell tower there,
now the monastery is not active, it is like a museum,
there is a very big bell tower there,
now he rings every hour, there are a lot of tourists...
It's him who taught me,
then I came here and began to ring,
first I was ringing at the house of prayer of the priest Kapunkin,
there was a little belfry, I gathered some small bells.
And when I came here, on the Mountain,
I began to ring the bells here.
There are Sunday liturgies every week, isn't it?
Yes. I ring two bell towers.
The first is big, on the rocky peak of the Heavenly Abode,
there the biggest bell is 600 kg.
It is well audible within tens of kilometres.
And a small belfry on the Temple peak,
next to the Symbol of Faith,
and while the procession is going to the Peak, I ring first the one,
and then the other one, I welcome the pilgrims.
Are you always so concentrated when you do it?
Yes, there are a lot of remarks about that,
when they take photo or video,
my expression is so serious,
the eyebrows are so knitted.
And now the audience can see that you can smile nevertheless.
But I couldn't somehow to ring and...
there is only an intern smile,
but it cannot go out at all.
fragment from the Holiday of August, 18
Glory to the Live God
The town has a radial structure.
And from the central circus 14 ray-streets start,
where the 50 houses of the citizens of this town are situated.
Now we are at the ray called "Personal way".
Just on this street, every Sunday
the liturgy procession goes up to the Temple Peak.
And it leads to the Heavenly Abode -
the higher part of the Town.
Now we are going to move along the path to the Heavenly Abode.
This part of the path is very hard,
but even the grannies get over it every Sunday,
because along the way everyone sings psalms
the people can have a rest,
and everything is amazing.
This place is very inspiring
because the colours are still so rich
the Golden Autumn is still reigning all around us.
It is nice to walk and the path doesn't seem so long and exhausting.
All along the way there are benches,
where one can seat down and take a rest.
way to the Temple
We've reached the so called "gate" of the Heavenly Abode.
On this place, there is a cross in a circle -
the symbol of the United Faith.
Usually here, people make the sign of cross,
before going on
in a tender and peaceful manner.
In this house Boris lives,
the guardian of the Heavenly Abode.
Now we are getting to know him
and we are going to tell him our intention to make a walk.
Good afternoon. Hello.
We would like, by mean of a movie,
to tell about the Heavenly Abode.
May we have this opportunity?
May be someone else
can better tell you about the Heavenly Abode.
Then, if it's possible, we could just make a little walk here,
we will show the houses, may be the habitants.
So, do it. Do it, please.
Thank you.
The autumn work on the gardens is finishing.
The preparation of the cultivated soil.
We are at the building site of the new Temple.
Behind me it is the house of the Teacher.
A little farther it is the Abode of Dawn.
On the other side is the lake of Tiberkul.
building of the new Temple
In one week the first snow fell down and...
Information:
For the period of the building, from March to October
it was built the base of Temple and finished the installation of the dome.
The height of the Temple is 12 meters.
The inside diameter is 14 meters.
It was brought up by hand and by horses to the Heavenly Abode:
18 tons of metal constructions,
15 tons of cement
and 40 tons of send and rubble.
The length of this cart-way is about 2,5 km.
And the altitude difference is 300 meters.
and this is in a week...
In our town lives Ali, a master of stone-cutting, from Dagestan.
All the work related to the stone
are done by him and under his supervision.
Particularly, these steps,
which lead to the Temple Peak.
Like every fairy world,
you can come across a gnome in a three-hole.
This place is called "the Fern Valley".
The fusion with the Teacher is here,
after which He talks with us
and answers our questions.
fragment from a meeting
Actually, it's not so easy to find something better.
If you have a wrong attitude to everything you are given,
you will not find something better.
If we speak that the tenderness, principally,
is something normal in the human nature,
then we cannot say that this is something negative.
This is a part of the normal human nature.
But how you show it in one or another moment,
it's here, where you should do it competently, like human being.
The animals don't do it like that.
The animals, at every desire of the instinct, rush for satisfying it.
They hear it, feel it and they must obey it.
According to the laws of the Nature, they must obey their instinct.
The man is not in this frame.
He feels the instinct,
but that doesn't mean to obey it.
He must transform it correctly,
to use it somehow.
But correctly, considering his spiritual formation.
Like human being, you will realize
whether it is proper to express this tenderness here or there.
Here, we are already going to the plane of specificity.
Don't blame the tenderness, never.
It is always normal.
I wish you happiness.
the little belfry
Altar of the Earth
at the magic lake of Tiberkul.
Amazingly pure lake
the water is drinking.
It is said that whoever looks himself in the water of this lake,
he can change his destiny completely.
Petropavlovka Video Studio Church of the Last Testament 43 Epoch of Dawn (2003)
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