Faith · London · Monarchies · Observations · Society
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been spirited out of Royal Lodge under cover of night, the official country residence in Windsor Great Park, formerly the residence of Elizabeth II, and has begun his exile at Sandringham. The police are considering allegations from his victims arising from the Epstein files. But, you
Faith · Art · Museums
Maso di Banco, c. 1335 Château de Chantilly
Faith · The East · Heritage
By the beginning of the twentieth century several hundred Orthodox Christians lived in Beijing, and almost all of them were killed in the course of the Boxer uprising against foreign interference. Several tens of thousands of people took part in the rebellion. In June 1900 mass killings of foreign subjects
Faith · Books · Observations
Remember how in Pelevin the oligarchs are ranked beneath the so-called Chaldeans. The Chaldeans are the retainers of the vampires who suck money dry and who invented banks in order to step up the sucking of this energy. There is, naturally, only one way out: love of the Lord.
Faith · Art · Books
Wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Epistle to the Romans, 7:24 The Apostle laments and complains of the flesh, calling the earthly and voluptuous body a body of death, since it suffers within itself under the law of sin. But
Faith · Books · Mores
The Valdai lake, upon which this town is built, will remain memorable in the tale of a monk who sacrificed his life for the sake of his mistress. A verst and a half from the town, in the midst of the lake, on an island, stands the Iversky Monastery, built
Architecture · Faith · Heritage
The first is the Church of the Saviour the All-Merciful in the village of Spass on the left bank of the Volga, built at the very beginning of the 19th century. Although the church has not been in active use since the late 1930s, it has retained its historical
Architecture · Faith · Moscow
In 1635-1636, a domestic church dedicated to the Saviour Not Made by Hands was built on the men's side of the palace. It later came to be called the Upper Saviour Cathedral (Verkhospassky Sobor). In 1682 three palace churches, those of the Resurrection "Slovushchy", of
Archive · Faith · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
A barricade set up in the autumn of 1917 across Ostozhenka, by the Church of the Resurrection of the Word. In the bell tower of the church is a Bolshevik firing point. This is dreadful not only as a fact of civil war but as a symbol. A bell tower,
Archaeology · Architecture · Faith · London · Heritage
Lambeth Palace in London, for eight centuries the residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury, has been restored for the first time in 70 years. The £40 million reconstruction was devoted to the restoration and conservation of the building's historic elements. The palace serves as the archbishop's
Architecture · Faith · Moscow · Heritage
The only wooden structure of the Nikolo-Korelsky Monastery to have survived to our day stands in Moscow, on the grounds of the Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve. The monastery, at the mouth of the Northern Dvina on the shore of the White Sea, is first mentioned in the chronicles in 1419.
Architecture · Faith · Art · Heritage
The celebrated church, revered throughout Belarus, stands within one of the oldest Orthodox monasteries of Eastern Europe, the Convent of Saint Euphrosyne of Polotsk (the Saviour-Euphrosyne Monastery) in Polotsk. The stone church was built at the behest of Euphrosyne of Polotsk on the site of a wooden church, according