Is Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkuniv) the confessor of President Putin?  . Tikhon, Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhivsky (Shevkunov Georgy Oleksandrovich) Bishop of Yogor'evsky Tikhon Shevkuniv biography

Archimandrite Tikhon, also known as Georgy Oleksandrovich Shevkunov, born in 1958. Having graduated from the scriptwriting department of the All-Union Institute of Cinematography. Nezabar, after completing VDIK, he went to the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery, became a novice for nine years, and then took black tonsure. Turning back to Moscow, paying attention to the former branch of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Ten years ago, Shevkunov spoke to the press as one of the ideologists of the fundamentalist directivity of the Russian Orthodox Church, publishing the article The Church and the Power, which openly declared its goal to democracy. A democratic country, quotes Father Tikhon Free Lapse Vireau, will inevitably weaken the largest influx of the Church in the country, bringing into action the old principle of divide and rule. This is important in connection with the fact that Russian media call Father Tikhon the confessor of President Putin, the person who attracts the attention of the leader of the state.

In church stakes they talk about Tikhon as if they were talking about a notorious intriguer and careerist. The film screenwriter earned his first diploma in his brilliant church career in 1991 after his return to Moscow from the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery. Then he died and died in the Donskoy Monastery, but he is still alive. According to investigators, the culprit of the fire was the unfaithful monastery watchman, who fell asleep with a lit cigarette. Shevkunov called the evil agents of the incoming special services, sent to us under the guise of believers of the Russian Orthodox Church behind the cordon. (Before the speech, foreigners, unimpressed by the long-standing tradition, are supporting Father Tikhon. For a moment, they consider him the leading candidate for the seat of the next Patriarch of All Russia.) It seems that even the certified screenwriter himself is not in search of a church seat in Russia. .

And news about Father Tikhon’s connection with the KDB. Perhaps, then these connections helped me get to know Volodymyr Putin better. One of the parishioners of the Stritensky Monastery is a close friend of Father Tikhon, Lieutenant General Mikola Leonov. He served at the KDB from 1958 to 1991. In the 60-70s, he worked at the First Head Directorate (PDU) of the KDB of the SRSR, being the protector of the head of the department. (Putin served at PSU for 70 years.) Tikhin (Shevkunov) and Mikola Leonov are on the editorial board of the Russian House magazine, which operates on the basis of the Striten Monastery. Leonov is a political commentator for the same program that airs on the Moskoviya channel, and Shevkunov is also the spiritual director of both projects for the magazine and television program. Among the guests of the Russian House are representatives of the Russian National Unity (RNU) and the Black Hundred.

Vidomy Tato Tikhin and more global projects. He was one of the activists of the movement for the canonization of the royal homeland. Having finished the crusade against the magician David Copperfield's tour in Russia, the flock was informed that the magic tricks of this vulgar American Woland were to be placed as spies against the dark and ruinous forces. What’s not, his popular plan is a battle with satanic barcodes and individual tax payer numbers (IPN). The barcodes and IPN, in the opinion of Father Tikhon, have a hidden number 666. Moreover, the secret organization of the region is subordinate to the Orthodox total control on the side of the secular, anti-Orthodox, in Tikhon’s opinion, power. This article on the Schengen zone, dedicated to this global problem, was published in the official organ of the RNE Russian Order. They don’t care about those that Papa Tikhin will seal his ties with the Russian nations, they look even closer.

The holy father’s axis of darkness is about censorship. Censorship is a typical tool in a normal marriage, which is guilty of taking everything to the extreme. I am especially for her both in the religious field and in the secular one. As soon as there is state censorship, it is too late to clearly understand the need for this institution for marriage. We know how Alexander Sergeyovich Pushkin barked censorship in his youth and otherwise, as in the word fool, he cheated. And then they advocated for censorship. Tikhon’s last thought, prote, put A.S.’s successor creativity in a dark corner. Pushkin. Well, without Pushkin writing such a thing!

Tikhin was one of Putin’s first greetings to the princes and at all times seemed happy with Yeltsin’s immediate departure, praising the era of Yeltsinism.

Tato Tikhin tells the story of his acquaintance with Putin. They always advertise their closeness to the first person. In the church stakes, there is a rumor that Tikhon is the confessor of the president, started by Tikhon himself. The certified screenwriter himself does not confirm this rumor, but simply flirts: What kind of Richelieu are you planning to prepare with me? Tim no less, journalists from Moscow outlets firmly wrote from Tikhon’s words that Volodymyr Putin was confessing to him all the way. He himself instructs the president in spiritual life.

Regardless of his real (or obvious) closeness to the President of Diplomas, screenwriter Tikhon is actively trying to make money. As it seems, the Patriarch himself is afraid of nothing.

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Archimandrite Tikhon, also known as Georgy Oleksandrovich Shevkunov, born in 1958. Having graduated from the scriptwriting department of the All-Union Institute of Cinematography. Nezabar, after completing VDIK, he went to the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery, became a novice for nine years, and then took black tonsure. Turning back to Moscow, paying attention to the former branch of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Ten years ago, Shevkunov first appeared in the press as one of the ideologists of the fundamentalist directivity of the Russian Orthodox Church, who published the article “Church and Power,” which clearly defined his goal as democracy. “A democratic power,” Father Tikhon quotes “Free Lapse Vireau,” “will inevitably be tempted to weaken the most prosperous Church in the country, bringing to bear the old principle of “divide and give away.” This is important in connection with the fact that Russian media call Father Tikhon the confessor of President Putin, the person who attracts the attention of the leader of the state.

In church stakes they talk about Tikhon as if they were talking about a notorious intriguer and careerist. The film screenwriter earned his first career in his illustrious ecclesiastical career after returning to Moscow from the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery in 1991. Then he initiated a scandal after the fire at the Donskoy Monastery, but he is still alive. According to investigators, the culprit was a drunken monastery watchman who fell asleep with a lit cigarette. Shevkunov called the “evil underdog” agents of the incoming special services, sent to us under the guise of believers of the Russian Orthodox Church behind the cordon. (To the speech, the “scorestones”, uninvited by the long -standing scandal, to the Father of Tikhon. Behind the senses, the stink of a yogo head candidate for the offensive Patriga All Rusі.) Kazhita, the scriptwriter himself does not oppose the hare of the Church of the Rosada.

And news about Father Tikhon’s connection with the KDB. Perhaps, these connections helped me get to know Volodymyr Putin better. One of the parishioners of the Striten Monastery is a close friend of Father Tikhon, Lieutenant General Mikola Leonov. He served at the KDB from 1958 to 1991. In the 60-70s, he worked at the First Head Directorate (PDU) of the KDB of the SRSR, being the protector of the head of the department. (Putin served in the 70s at PSU.) Tikhin (Shevkunov) and Mikola Leonov are on the editorial board of the magazine “Russian House”, which operates on the basis of the publication of the Striten Monastery. Leonov is a political commentator for the same program that airs on the Moskoviya channel, and Shevkunov is also the spiritual director of both projects – a magazine and a TV show. Among the guests of the “Russian House” are representatives of the “Russian National Unity” (RNU) and the “Black Hundred”.

From Father Tikhin and more global projects. He was one of the activists of the movement for the canonization of the royal homeland. Having finished the “Christian march” against the magician David Copperfield’s tour in Russia, they informed the flock that “the magic tricks of this vulgar American Woland” put the spectators “behind the dark and ruinous forces.” And his most prominent project is the fight against “satanic” barcodes and individual tax payer numbers (IPN). The barcodes and IPN, in the opinion of Father Tikhon, have a disguised “number of the beast” - 666. Moreover, the hidden system is subordinate to the Orthodox total control on the side of the secular, anti-Orthodox, in Tikhon’s opinion, power. This article “Schengen zone”, dedicated to this “global problem”, was published in the second organ of the RNU “Russian order”. They don’t care about those that Father Tikhin will seal his ties with the Russian nations, they look even closer.

The holy father’s axis of darkness is about censorship. “Censorship is a normal tool in a normal marriage, which can take everything to the extreme. I am especially for her - both in the religious sphere and in the secular one. Before the state censorship, it is too early to clearly understand the need for this institution to come into marriage. We know how Alexander Sergeyovich Pushkin, in his youth, barked at censorship, as in the word “stupid”, and did not rip it off. And for a long time I advocated for censorship.” Tikhon’s last phrase, prote, put A.S.’s successor creativity in the dark. Pushkin. Well, without Pushkin writing such a thing!

Tikhin was one of Putin’s first greetings to the “enthroned” and at all times seemed happy with Yeltsin’s immediate exit, condemning the “era of Yeltsinism.”

Father Tikhin tells the story of his acquaintance with Putin. They always advertise their closeness to the first person. In the church stakes, they have a feeling that Tikhon is the confessor of the president, launched by Tikhon himself. The certified screenwriter himself does not confirm this rumor, but is not casual - he coquets: “What kind of Richelieu are you hoping to earn from me?” No less, journalists from Moscow magazines wrote in Tikhon’s words that “Volodymyr Putin is constantly confessing to him. He himself instructs the president in spiritual life.”

Regardless of his real (or obvious) closeness to the President of Diplomas, screenwriter Tikhon is actively trying to make money. As it seems, now the Patriarch himself is afraid of telling him.

ARCHIMANDRITE TIKHON (SHEVKUNIV) – CONFESSIONAL OF PRESIDENT PUTIN?

The mysterious persona of the new president remains closer to the people. Vin has already introduced himself as “syn”, “student”, “razvidnik”, “democrat” and “siman”. All the same, you can glean scant information about the presidential likeness, look at the signs - a collection of his interview “View of the First Person. Rozmovi s Volodymyr Putin”, recently released by Vagrius, is in the clearing. Until now, no one has heard about the actions of the huge Chekist from the church and its hierarchs. This important and completely unknown side of Putin’s life is revealed to us in the same way by the well-known clergyman who is his confessor. Guess what: the tsar’s confessor often indicated shares of the Russian Empire.

Also, Putin’s confessor is Archimandrite Tikhin, rector of the Stritensky Monastery, built in the center of Moscow - on Lubyantsa, a half-kilometer away from the former FSB of the Russian Federation, which is symbolic in itself. Let’s talk about it in a short interview with an FLB correspondent:

- So, life first. I have never voted: neither for Brezhnev, nor for Yeltsin. I voted for Volodymyr Putin, because I know him especially. Putin is a religious person, Orthodox. And for the shepherd to give a voice, that’s all it takes to guarantee. There is one kindness that I need in no one at all - in no way at all. The accepted policy that he pursued as prime minister is less than absolutely pleasant.

- Don’t you think that Russia has taken away the people, because they don’t even know?

-Who does he know? Yavlinsky? Zhirinovsky? Dzhabrailova? Putin just came to the point of showing and recommending himself - having already started working on things.

- Putin is a professional soldier of the KDB, an atheist for appointments. How did you get along with him?

- I don’t want to share any details about the arrangements of our acquaintance. I will say one thing: Putin is a man of great faith and knowledge of God. He himself has mastered very deep nutrition but, as Dostoevsky wrote: “Perhaps, for whom it looks funny, that’s your faith.”

Archimandrite Tikhon, in the world Georgy Oleksandrovich Shevkunov, born in 1958, graduated from the screenwriting department of VDIK. Having been a novice of the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery, having served in the Vidavnichy branch of the Moscow Patriarchate... In 1991, one of the bulivels of the Don Monastery burned in the Shevkunov family. According to investigators, a drunken monastery watchman, who fell asleep with a lit cigarette, was to blame for the fire. Due to the immediate need of duty, Father Tikhin decided to show “political agility.” In an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, he called the “evil scoundrel” from the agents of the incoming special services, especially the believers of the Russian Orthodox Church behind the cordon. True, to call them by name seemed to be a shame: “That’s the word,” he guessed, “the most important word.”

Why Father Tikhin Mav is respectful of the “trustworthiness of our affairs” is hard to imagine. It is possible that this, as well as the “sweetness”, helped to create a career in the Moscow Patriarchate for a short-lived career - to initially desecrate the great Moscow monastery, and then to take into his custody the soul of the President of Russia.

It was not without reason that Shevkunov decided to tell our correspondent about his acquaintance with Putin. For any clergyman, the mystery of his informal affairs with the special services is an everlasting mark on his cassock. The archimandrite went through his career shoulder-to-shoulder with numerous generals of the KDB, which, obviously, “led” him to the upcoming president of the region.

One of them, Lieutenant General Mikola Leonov, joined the editorial board of the magazine “Russian House” from Shevkunov. Leonov was born on September 22, 1928 near the Ryazan region. From 1958 to 1991, he served in the KDB system of the USSR, at one time he was known as the “curator” of Fidel Castro and the ideological leader of the “revolutionary fire”, who had been violating Latin America for a long time in the 60-70s ah, being the protector of the head of the First Head Office ( who served with him and Putin), head of the Analytical Department of the KDB of the SRSR. Immediately after the Serpent of 1991, I submitted a report about the exhibition. The rest of the work was carried out together with Leonid Shebarshin (the remaining head of the PGU KDB of the USSR) at the so-called Directorate of Economic Security - an office that initially played the role of some kind of legal security service for the wealth of the great Russian banks ( Prombudbank, Inkombank etc.), during the reign of Primakov to Bily At home, I prepared draft regulations and concepts for economic programs...

Under the mask of the “crazy old man Avakum”, a fanatical fighter against new heresies, having pulled the Shevkunov on himself, there is a completely ordinary people with powerful weaknesses. People are known to talk about his skill in becoming addicted to alcoholic drinks (a vestige of his bohemian youth?). The abbot enjoys booking an Audi-8 for the ordinary class and loves to spend a pittance in expensive restaurants.

I was going to publish this interview on the website of "Vidkritaya Rossiya". Ale Tikhin Shevkunov was ready to say no more than that, as it seems, he put before my mother Zoya Krokhmalnikova, who served five sentences for the faith in Radian hours. And I was inspired by the publication on the “Khodorkovsky website.” That’s why, following this year’s editorial work on the “Vidkritoy Rossiya” website, I publish an interview on the Radio Liberty website.

– You were baptized in the 1980s by the rocks of the last century. Then the believers were re-examined, and my mother, writer Zoya Krokhmalnikova, was with them. What did you hear about her?

I felt about Zoya Oleksandrivna Krokhmalnikova from the priest Volodymyr Shibaev. Before this, I sometimes came with my friends to the church service in the Moscow region. We were then young graduates of capital universities and were just beginning to get acquainted with Moscow church life, including various churches. It was perhaps forty years ago. It seems that Father Volodymyr Rozpov was speaking at the sermon, which was arrested by Zoya Krahmalnikova, the one who illegally saw Christian almanacs “Nadiya”. They published texts from the holy fathers of the Church, sermons, and stories about the new martyrs. We read these collections and passed them on one by one. (Zoya Krokhmalnikova bulaarrested 3 sickles 1982 Roku. – Z. Z.)

– Alas, such a collection of Christian reading was uniform in its family.

- We would like to extend our insurance to such neophytes like us. At the church of Father Volodymyr, we collected various things to help Zoya Oleksandrivna, and decided to hand them over before the trial, which was no longer necessary to buy. As if people were trying to slander us, they were talking, they were timid, but they might be unacceptable. There was no respect for us at all. Thanks to the power of the dissident movement, they didn’t especially bother us: my friends and I lost our minds to the common Orthodoxy. At that time, I wrote a statement about leaving the Komsomol and no longer bothered with particularly ideological problems. There was no greedy heroism in anyone. This was the end of the flight of Radyan rule.

–1982 rіk – the rule of the Radians does not prevail at all. They have continued to jail people both for their faith and for saving anti-Radyan literature. I wanted to ask you a little about something else: in 1989, my mother Zoya Krahmalnikova published an article in the newspaper “Russian Thought” “Girki fruits of licorice are full”, because of the small resonance. This article is about the so-called Sergianism (the policy of loyalty to the Radian government in the USSR, the beginning of which is tied to the Declaration of Metropolitan Sergius(Stragorodsky. - Z.S.). Is the Church of today ill with Sergianism?

– I want to point out that this is Sergianism. Sergianism, as critics understand the course of the current Patriarchate, and the melodic church policy adopted by Metropolitan Sergius. It lies in the fact that in the minds of the open sovereign terror of the Bolsheviks in relation to the Church, in the minds of the real insecurity of the substitution of Orthodoxy for the so-called modernization, which the Bolshevik authorities, the intercessor of the patriarchal throne, actively rejected Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky) collects the routes of not illegal but saving legal church structures. For this reason, he had to make difficult compromises. The most tragic of them believed that the church administration practically gave up the power of the power to dispose of the recognition and transfer of bishops and priests, the removal of objectionable departments and parishes, and did not openly protest against the transfer The shame of the clergy is the lawlessness that was happening in the country.

What happened? Perhaps the Metropolitan has betrayed his own skin? No, in whom the fierce church opponents of his course did not argue. Everyone knew: simply the death of the old bishop, who, having lived a long life and during the period of unprecedented persecutions, bore responsibility for the entire Russian Church, would be the easiest way out. No, they criticized him not for anything, but for the mercy of the course he had set for power. Metropolitan Sergius himself justified his church policy of reconstitution, that once the Church reaches the point of subversion, the Bolsheviks will inevitably plant in the country the non-canonical, hybna renewal church they have already prepared. And so, for the last hour of the Bolsheviks' reign under the total deprivation of the canonical Orthodox Church, the inheritance was not transferred to the Russian people. Unfortunately, there are few similar examples in history.

But a church politician had to pay a truly terrible price for his money. There were episodes when Metropolitan Sergius suffered the grave sin of untruth, when, for example, in his meaningful interview on the 16th of 1930, published in the newspapers “Pravda” and “Izvestia”, he confirmed that the persecution of faith in the Rad There is no Yansky Russia . Of course, it was all nonsense. Let it be vimushena, let it be nonsense. Why are you interested in such short terms? Metropolitan Sergius miraculously knew that if any of his opirs were in power, as he showed evidence, he would greatly increase the repression and mass strife among the bishops and priests, as they were punished. All I can say is: God forbid you fall on your mist.

The church policy adopted by Metropolitan Sergius was found to be reasonable by the church middle class, and harsh judgment and resistance. The best thing we can do from our carefree today is to start judging specific people on both sides. Among Metropolitan Sergius, who supported the Declaration, were great saints: Archbishop Hilarion (Trinity) - one of the most important new martyrs of the twentieth century, and the famous saint-confessor and surgeon Luke No-Yasenetsky), in 1920 he became a priest. What to expect in advance is nothing but pain, suffering and, in general, death. Metropolitan Kostyantin (Dyakov), Metropolitan Evgen (Zernov) - it is possible to reconsider many names, although all of them suffered martyrdom, becoming followers of the church course of Metropolitan Sergius.

Among their spiritual opponents were no less important hierarchs - Metropolitan Kirilo (Smirnov), Metropolitan Agafangel (Preobrazhensky), Archbishop Varlaam (Ryashintsev), Archbishop Seraphim (Samoilovich). The stench is also glorified by the Church in the ranks of saints. The position of one hundred percent church politics separated them from the different sides of the barricades during those unprecedentedly important hours, but throughout eternity they were united by martyrdom for Christ. Thus, on the 20th leaf fall of 1937 in Chimkent, the followers of three opposing directions in church life were shot and buried in one mass grave - Metropolitan Yosip (Petrovikh), Metropolitan Kirilo (Smirnov) and the “Sergian bishop” Evgen (Kobranov).

Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky) did not guarantee the Church's canonization. Let’s judge him from the position of our time, and I don’t intend to throw any more stones at him.

Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky)

My confessor, Father Ioann (Selyankin), told me about his marriage (one of three he had in his 96 years of life), which profoundly affected him. Still a layman, in the early 1930s he was in opposition until Metropolitan Sergius. 1st axis: Yelokhivsky Cathedral, pointing to Metropolitan Sergius. There is a heavy crowd at the church, and in the new - the future Father Ivan, the then Ivan Mikhailovich Selyankin, stand, understandably, that the new Metropolitan will be held at the same time. And rightly, the metropolitan is greeted at the door, and everyone passing by, he asks Father John and quietly says: “I know you’re judging me even more. Ale know: I repent.” The Metropolitan will enter until tomorrow and at which point the ceremony will end. For Father Ivan it was both extreme shock and a lot of re-understanding.

– My diet is not in the assessment of Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky) specifically, but in the assessment of Sergianism as a manifestation. We, secular people, understand that Sergianism is a fusion and support of the Church of the rulers and powers.

– I don’t quite understand what you mean by respect. Let's be more specific. Our axis, for example, is spivpratsya - a child’s little booth. This is subsidized by both us and the local government.

- Well, you understand what I mean.

- Not about benevolence. What did they say to Metropolitan Sergius? In his famous Declaration of 1927, he said: “We want to be Orthodox and at the same time inform the Radyansky Union with our colossal fatherly spirit, the joys and successes of which are our joys and successes, and the failures – our misfortunes.” And at this hour the priests were being imprisoned and shot at with full force.

– I have already spoken about the most important compromises, about the sins of nonsense, what a brave man Metropolitan Sergius is. We do not accept these things that we today, especially not blaming Metropolitan Sergius and his followers, and have declared many times that on these principles, it is insane, we cannot and cannot live church life. At its center is God, Christ. This is the “alpha” and “omega” of Orthodoxy. While it is said that “your joys are our joys,” the Declaration of Metropolitan Sergius spoke about the “joys and successes” of the Fatherland, let alone the Radyans – for the sake of the church’s sickness, tragically caused, but still the Father the thing that will be lost.

- I feed you about today.

– I think that the joys and misfortunes of today’s Russia are perceived as peculiarities of the multi-million-dollar Russian Orthodox Church. You say that the Church supports the state. It greatly encourages creativity and goodness in everyone. And he calls for everything that is wrong and bad to be corrected. Why are you putting a price on it? Haven’t you wondered that over a thousand years of our history the Church itself has created and shaped the Russian and Russian state? And there were hours, say, during the Tatar-Mongol invasion or in the Hours of Troubles, when the Church itself and only others fought and saved Russia. And how, after these thousands of fates of motherhood, today we do not support the state of everyone who is creative, kind, and helpful at an important hour? So what did liberals tell you not to do?

– I am not equal to the position. I will revive my spirit.

- What are you thinking about?

– Why do the intelligentsia respect the Church today? For the one who practices power, he glorifies power. Guess the 2012 presidential election will happen if Patriarch Kirilo actually called for a vote for Putin.

- There was no such thing. The statute of the Russian Orthodox Church prohibits calling before voting for these and other politicians and parties.

– Axis quote: “I can say absolutely openly as a Patriarch who insists on telling the truth, with no respect for either the political situation or propaganda accents, about those who have a great role in correcting the crookedness of our history. played especially by V, Volodymyr Volodimirovich. I would like to give you a shout out. If they said that you work like a slave in the galleys - with this difference, that the slave did not have such a return, but you have an even higher return” (spoken on February 8, 2012, the head of the religious leaders communities). The Patriarch speaks about Putin as about the candidate who has, obviously, the greatest chance of realizing his candidacy for a real imprisonment. This is not a call, but a definite encouragement, from which the flock may work.

- Listen, the patriarch is on the right. Having believed that he is in power, he may himself act in this way in the presence of all heads of religious communities in Russia. Good for you, there was encouragement within the framework of the law, and not a direct appeal before voting for a candidate. V said everything correctly. So why is there a crime?

– The Church practically does not criticize the government at all. No one stands up for political leaders. The Church supported the uprising of Crimea, although there were different thoughts. The Church will always be controlled by the “line party”.

- Let's go in order. “The Church does not criticize the government.” Insanely, for the church, in contrast to other opposition figures, criticism of the government is not an end in itself and instead is a cause. Here you are using a walkie-talkie. But in the fact that the Church respects the need to instruct the state and provide for the insecurity and mercy, we, of course, are talking. The Church itself, the patriarch and the impersonality of priests and laity come out as the most severe critic of the state law on abortion. Collecting signatures, the patriarch’s speech at the Duma criticizing the government’s policy in this galusi, in ZMI, in sermons, nareshti. We talk about millions of people, about the systemic enforcement of permissiveness and the systematic killing. We are proposing the procedure on the basis of international evidence on the speed of abortion.

President of the Russian Federation Volodimir Putin, former Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Anatoly Serdyukov and Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirilo (from left to right) at the local reception in honor of graduates of military academies and universities at the Kremlin I, 2012 r_k

Further criticism of government policy in the sphere of production and distribution of alcoholic products. The decline in non-streaming production of alcohol was seen as a result of the establishment of market freedom. The result of this criticism, and then the rich work of the power of the Church - some of the fates of this were praised by the new laws to reduce the consumption of alcohol, and today's problems, close to the help of the Church, have undergone changes. The consumption of pure alcohol per capita in the river in 2008, according to the Ministry of Health of Russia, was 15.8 liters (but in reality it was close to 18 liters), and in 2015 it was 10.5 liters. I will provide such exact figures, since I myself, from the side of the Church, am dealing with this directly.

Political matters. My position in particular is this: since you know the person especially and understand that she has been condemned for her political views, you have the right to protect her from Swaville. That's up to the skin priest - the food is just and inclusive special. I knew one person, a friend of mine, who was arrested and put on trial for political views after the death of 1993. And just because I knew him, having praised him and in his righteousness and innocence, I came to court and acted like a huge defendant. Because you don’t know the people, you don’t know the essence of it, and it would only seem that, in our opinion, this is a political connection... The Church is unable to investigate. Wait, different situations.

According to Krim. And the church people who supported the uprising of Krim, and there are even more of them, are close to Krim. And those Orthodox Christians who spoke out against his condemnations. And the priests who spoke publicly, and there were no such repressions before them.

- Name these priests.

- Well, I can’t guess right away. I know a lot of people fell in love with this. Protodeacon Andrey Kuraev, clergyman of the Moscow vicarate, both wrote and said that this was a mercy.

“It’s not called ale,” they spoke out publicly, and they didn’t face the same kind of repression. We are talking to you about the speeches of representatives of the Church and hierarchs, and not about the blog of Father Andriy Kuraev.

– Our Father Andrey, of course, is not a hierarch, and he is by no means a simple church blogger. He has repeatedly and publicly spoken out with his thoughts about Crimea and the daily repressions without recognizing it. For the sake of the hierarchs, why do you think that your mother is to blame for having the same idea in your diet as yours, and not being in solidarity with the 95% of Crimeans who voted for annexation to Russia?

– Deacon Andriy Kuraev himself gave an interview to the Dosh TV channel under the title “The Sins of Patriarch Kiril.” Did you bachili?

- No. What sin?

- According to Kuraev, “neither Patriarch Kirilo, nor Metropolitan Hilarion, nor Legoyda, nor anyone else, they gave a moral assessment, church-moral, theological assessment of the pogrom moods and actions.”

– I care about everything, but I know about “Matilda”. The official representative of the Russian Orthodox Church, Volodymyr Romanovich Legoyda, has stated several times that the Church categorically condemns any extremist movements like the film “Matilda”. Metropolitan Hilarion spoke about this. It was possible not to notice these manifestations in the press, only after having lived through some special zusil.

- I understand that Kuraev, speaking about the “sins of the patriarch”, deserves respect, that the patriarch did not blame these people who called themselves Orthodox Christians, but in fact were pogromists.

Protodeacon, scribe Andriy Kuraev at the premiere of the film "Matilda" directed by A. Vchitel

– What is the organization “Christian Power”? What is the result of two people and resentment, it seems, is already under investigation? I repeat, with the blessing of the Patriarch, his official press secretary and the cerebral officer made a connection with the snakes and publicly condemned them for any manifestation of extremism. All the bishops in the rich dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church in local newspapers, on diocesan websites and in the media warned the flock about the inadmissibility of protests in the legal field, wanting to sing that only people could sing at extremist events Some provocateurs who have no connection with the Church. And since there are legitimate huge protests, do you think the patriarch is responsible for protecting them? Are you propagating the beginning of church repression before them?

- And the kings? How are you going to get to them?

- Did you yourself want one king? Can you name me the only one? I've seen more than one lady like that. One. That's it. I know that there are a number of screaming groups who called the king a companion. It’s true, even more so, the two of them are from the “Christian state”. All the priests, who find out about such sects, talk to their adherents, try to clarify the promises. Is it bad enough to make you squeal like that?

– The stench is also very aggressive.

– We have extremely aggressive activists of the most diverse stripes. But we don’t want to protect all the inadequate “demshisis” from the fact that we don’t deserve the stench. If they are so tired, don’t let them become active hour after hour, in their repertoire, or don’t break the law.

- Did the fence put “Tannhäuser” near the Novosibirsk theater?

- I remember the marvelous butt. The Novosibirsk Metropolitan is a citizen of the Russian Federation, is that right? In accordance with the law, having submitted a proposal to close the law, they stood up to the law on the image of religious sensibilities. I lost this trial! As soon as the Ministry of Culture decided to withdraw the opera from the repertoire, this resulted in a rapidly growing civil conflict.

– If the Novosibirsk metropolitan filed a summons before the trial, is he not happy with anyone from the hierarchs?

– The bishop is absolutely free to make a decision. Be careful to be happy. It’s your right to work or not to work.

– You have sharply criticized the film “Leviathan.” Axis quote: “This film is the same “mystery” as “mystery” - those who made “pussies” at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.”

– This is not an exact quote. I said it verbatim: “Those who applauded “Pussi” also applaud “Leviathan.” But despite all the negative attitudes towards the film, associated with the obvious tendency and hyperbole, no one, including your humble servant, did not think about dealing with the cries about stopping the film. I have repeated more than once that the fence is an absolutely dead-end and wrong path. Meanwhile, the devil’s slander on this topic is already becoming significant.

I was recently informed that a little has been started, because I am part of my participation in the premiere of Kiril Serebrennikov’s “Nureyev” show. The authorship of the rumor is Oleksiy Venediktov. Did you take the stars? I hope you have to endure it so hard.

- Alas, as if you were foolish.

- I said that there is a gap. Is it somehow unreasonable, inconceivable?

– Venediktov wrote on the telegram channel that representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church were on display with the civilians. They didn’t deserve to show up, they smelled you, and you telephoned Minister Medinsky.

Volodymyr Medinsky and Bishop Father Tikhon (Shevkunov)

- Nonsense. Illness on fantasy.

- Why is there a rumor going around Moscow that you didn’t enjoy Serebrennikov’s film “The Study”?

– I can’t say axis anymore. I don’t care about this film. Just as if I wanted to marvel at the fragments of the topic of my life. And why rumors are spreading throughout Moscow and St. Petersburg, it’s only because for a significant part of our progressive creative partnership there are sensitive slabs - not the same accumulation and burying.

- Explain.

- Love the stench a little. There was such a wonderful publicist Ivan Lukyanovich Solonevich. Vin said: “Russia was attacked by sensitivities and scourges,” bearing in mind Lyutiy’s fate in 1917. They let it happen that a telegraph line had been laid from Tsarskoe Selo to the German General Staff and that Empress Oleksandra Fedorovna was especially informing the enemy of all the military secrets. There was a feeling that after a few days before Petrograd, life would be good, from day to day there would be hunger, although Petrograd would be the largest capital of all that fought in the First World War. So, before the speech, the Lyutnev revolution is called by historians - “the revolution of the city.” We know that there was plenty of bread before the lute revolution. 197 million poods were lost before the onset of the harvest, which would go to the country, to the front, and to supply the allies. There were temporary interruptions due to snowfalls and sabotage by high-ranking smug revolutionaries. And it all led to the destruction of stones, the revolution and all the offensive. Tiles, tiles. Don’t think, I’m not implying that the activity of these creative and hand-made riveters and plasterers will lead to a revolution. Fools, the stench must be drab and primitive equaled by the Guchkovs, Milyukovs and Rodzyankas. Ale zalishimo tse. I wasn’t surprised at the film you’re talking about by Kiril Serebrennikov, and I wasn’t surprised at anything that he filmed and directed.

- Well, do you know what kind of director he is?

- I know for sure.

- Do the stars know that you weren’t surprised at anything?

– Are you surprised? The figure is untwisted. I'm reading new things.

- “The Study” is a very brutal anti-clerical film.

- I know that, the plot is mine. Just to recap, this is not an anti-clerical film, but rather a film that exposes the aggressive fanaticism of righteousness - pharisaism.

- Haven’t you ever tried anything? And they didn’t show it to Putin?

-Are you going to fry?

- I’ll tell you what it seems.

- Not much to say.

- Should I explain why?

– Because, I repeat, there are a lot of liars and cheats in the world.

- Why should you do some mischief?

- I think it’s better to create the appearance of being informed and important.

- Who is Serebrennikov for you? Who is your enemy?

- People who have been transformed are even far from mine. Perhaps, he is a good director. Having marveled at nothing, I do not undertake to judge it.

– When I asked you for an interview, you wrote to me in an SMS saying that you won’t give me an interview, because they are preparing recommendations against you from the authorities. I know that the Dosh TV channel is making a film about you. Ale I sing to you, you are not my dear.

- Do you mean by yourself?

– Why do you have such a stereotype that the statti ob’yazkovo says it? Who says: Patriarch Kirill?

- Who else? There’s just no one to tell.

– There was such a person who does not tolerate lack of information, US President Roosevelt. So he said: “If anything happens in politics, then don’t doubt it, it was intended that way.” TV channel “Dosh” – this is politics and politics is ahead of us.

– As far as I understand, the Doshch TV channel is producing this film because you play a great role in politics.

– What is irony?

– So, let’s just say that you are the president’s confessor. But you won’t stop anyone.

– The Dosh TV channel has produced a film. There will soon be a great flow of such films and articles about the Russian Orthodox Church. We know about this in the course. It’s normal, calm as long as we can.

- What is the “order”?

- The Church is a special structure in the current Russian marriage and in Russian history. And people who respect them need to weaken their inflows as much as possible.

- Swimming on Vlada?

- At the people in front of us.

– In Russia, everything is under our control.

- Here we disagree with you. In my humble opinion, both in Russia and in the world, the Lord God trusts everyone.

- People in power here are all believers.

- That's it? Not at all.

- “Doschu” has a total of 70 thousand pre-payers. So the splash is not very great.

– The newspaper “Iskra” at that time was seen in even fewer copies. With her help they successfully ignited the flames. Also, the boys from “Doschu” haven’t spent anything yet.

– You are complete with the “mind theory.” Your interest is purely journalistic. For me, for example, I just have to eat food. When you were young, when you started at VDIK, you read “The Gulag Archipelago” and saw it yourself. Why do you trust the KDB and the FSB so much?

- What do you think this is? Especially about KDB in more detail.

- For me, the same thing. Aren’t you simply saying that you are Putin’s confessor?

– I have said more than once that the nourishment of Christianity, Orthodoxy, Volodymyr Volodimirovich Putin, has the ability to consult with a small number of competent people - from the Holy Patriarch to simple priests and laity. Among such priests is your humble servant, it’s true. The President regularly visits Valaam and meets with the famous spiritual fathers of Athos. Moreover, speaking about the confessor, you, of course, intend to respect this sinister specialism, and thus make a special attack on the president. You have the right to fantasize on this topic as much as you like, or to make up some kind of spluttering fairy tales, but on the right, the fact is that such people do not exist in nature. I would like the president, and this is illegal, not to tolerate any direct or indirect tests against him. It’s just ridiculous to let this happen. This makes sense, be it any analyst who has inevitably followed the activities of the president throughout his entire life in politics. Rashta - for lovers of conspiracy theories and conspiracy theories. Before the speech, all the same many times, I had to repeat myself.

O. Tikhon at a meeting with the President of the Russian Federation at the Central Federal District, 2012

- Do you know the president?

- Well, who among us doesn’t know? Well, good luck: I’ll be happy to know a little more about him.

- Well, you are being disingenuous here.

- What kind of diva? By the way, if I say that I know a little bit of him, then this means that I really only know Volodimir Volodimirovich Putin. If you are ready to declare that you know our president with great peace, please don’t throw a stone at me.

– Who was the first to write that you are the president’s confessor? Why don't you see yourself?

- Not at all. I know this journalist. I won’t call him by his name right now. I’m putting myself in a position with respect to the new one, although I would like to say that fatefully sixteen years ago, if I had previously written something like this in my status, I would be terribly annoyed at the new one.

– Does it help you that ZMI calls you the president’s confessor?

- I don’t show respect for this.

- Axis, you arrive, for example, to Yekaterinburg, and all the high-ranking people immediately run to you.

- Are you going to overdo it? This is how the people are popular. I arrived in Yekaterinburg as a contributor to the project “Russia – My History” to see our exhibition at the site. As a member of the Presidential Presidium for the sake of culture and mysticism, and as the head of the Patriarchate for the sake of culture. It’s unknown how important the bird is, but still. At the airport, I met my brother-bishop and officials from the provincial administration responsible for maintaining the local historical park. We were accompanied immediately on the way to the place, discussing details about the park and further to the work of local historians and tour guides. In reality, the governor was present. In other regions, however, the governor sometimes overpowered his representative.

– It doesn’t bother you that in Russia the authorities are reinvestigating dissidents?

– Whose nutrition has principles of difference between the Christian and our times. Over the years, we have known specific people who were subject to reprisals for dissent in political articles. In the first half of the 20th century, there were, let’s say, new martyrs. Later, in our memory, everyone in the country knew such people as Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsin, Zoya Krokhmalnikova, Oleksandr Ogorodnikov ( A prominent Orthodox dissident, organizer of a Christian seminar that has been active for over 10 years. - Z.S.), and in the church they prayed for Viktor Burdyug (at 1982 sentences against several Tabors for preserving and distributing anti-Radyan literature. - Z.S.), Mikoli Blokhina ( 1982 sentenced to 3 years of Tabors for preserving anti-Radyan literature. - Z.S). I know the remaining three specifically. But today the names of the people who were involved in the camps and in prison for their crimes are simply unknown to me.

- You, melodiously, have no ability to follow this, but similar certificates are often falsified, and we have the same flight problems as we do. There's less of it, but there's a stink. The Church may intercede for those who are innocently convicted.

– Do you still want the dissident movement to be suppressed?

- It would have been too much. I understand that you were in favor of joining Krim.

– What about the war in Donbass?

- It's greedy.

– Have you heard about the Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, who was sentenced to 20 rubles for not wanting to erect a monument to Lenin near Simferopol? Film director Oleksandr Sokurov stood up for him. You must know that today’s powers may not be on the same scale, but in principle they will continue to be the same as they were before.

– Chuv u novinakh.

– Another food: who is your closest, Metropolitan Philip Kolichev or Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky)?

Reproduction of the painting by Yakov Turligin “Metropolitan Philip defeats Ivan the Terrible”

– Metropolitan Philip was a great saint and a man of remarkable courage. He twisted the king from atrocities that were completely obvious to everyone. Without facing him the choice that most tormented Metropolitan Sergius. Metropolitan Philip knew that the victory of Ivan the Terrible and his death would save the Orthodox Church. Metropolitan Sergius had a different choice: the first option was to preserve the Orthodox Church in the legal space of Radian Russia. In which case will it be necessary to make the most important compromises, so as not to allow Russia to be taken over by the Bolsheviks, whose activities, inspired by the God-fighting power, led to the replacement of Orthodoxy with pseudo-Christianity, which is what modernism preaches? . Similar episodes in the history of the All-World Church in Vidoma. In the future, as we know from this history, turning to Orthodoxy, to true Christianity among peoples who have experienced similar vicissitudes, is no longer possible. Metropolitan Sergius miraculously knew this, preserving the church, choosing the hour to revive the cries that were lost after repression, church institutions.

Another option for action, recommended to Metropolitan Sergius, is to pretend to be a legal foundation of the church, to perish heroically together with his companions, to lose himself as an insane hero for centuries. In this case, it will be clear that there is a possibility of uninterrupted and uncontested change in the region under the substitution of Christianity - renewal in various forms. In this case, the Orthodox Russian Church will become very popular and, perhaps, will once again be completely deprived of its hierarchy. Such butts are part of history.

“Let my name perish in history, lest the church be destroyed” - these are the words spoken by the holy Patriarch Tikhon. Yes, of course, Metropolitan Sergius can repeat it. He himself said: “It’s easier for me to be shot right away.” Of course, we cannot immediately confirm that the Russian Church would have been saved if it had gone a different way? Perhaps, regardless of the total dominance of the modernists, in spite of all the support of their power with their all-consuming repressive machine, Orthodoxy could have been reborn in the nineties from the underground that was saved. Ale tse is all the more deprived. Those people lived at that hour and in those realities. They were responsible for the Church before God, and they were responsible for their decisions and actions at the Last Judgment. I repeat: it’s not for us to judge them!

Archimandrite Tikhon, also known as Georgy Oleksandrovich Shevkunov, born in 1958. Having graduated from the scriptwriting department of the All-Union Institute of Cinematography. Nezabar, after completing VDIK, he went to the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery, became a novice for nine years, and then took black tonsure. Turning back to Moscow, paying attention to the former branch of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Ten years ago, Shevkunov first appeared in the press as one of the ideologists of the fundamentalist directivity of the Russian Orthodox Church, who published the article “Church and Power,” which clearly defined his goal as democracy. “A democratic power,” Father Tikhon quotes “Free Lapse Vireau,” “will inevitably be tempted to weaken the most prosperous Church in the country, bringing to bear the old principle of “divide and give away.” This is important in connection with the fact that Russian media call Father Tikhon the confessor of President Putin, the person who attracts the attention of the leader of the state.

In church stakes they talk about Tikhon as if they were talking about a notorious intriguer and careerist. The film screenwriter earned his first career in his illustrious ecclesiastical career after returning to Moscow from the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery in 1991. Then he initiated a scandal after the fire at the Donskoy Monastery, but he is still alive. According to investigators, the culprit was a drunken monastery watchman who fell asleep with a lit cigarette. Shevkunov called the “evil underdog” agents of the incoming special services, sent to us under the guise of believers of the Russian Orthodox Church behind the cordon. (To the speech, the “scorestones”, uninvited by the long -standing scandal, to the Father of Tikhon. Behind the senses, the stink of a yogo head candidate for the offensive Patriga All Rusі.) Kazhita, the scriptwriter himself does not oppose the hare of the Church of the Rosada.

And news about Father Tikhon’s connection with the KDB. Perhaps, these connections helped me get to know Volodymyr Putin better. One of the parishioners of the Striten Monastery is a close friend of Father Tikhon, Lieutenant General Mikola Leonov. He served at the KDB from 1958 to 1991. In the 60-70s, he worked at the First Head Directorate (PDU) of the KDB of the SRSR, being the protector of the head of the department. (Putin served in the 70s at PSU.) Tikhin (Shevkunov) and Mikola Leonov are on the editorial board of the magazine “Russian House”, which operates on the basis of the publication of the Striten Monastery. Leonov is a political commentator for the same program that airs on the Moskoviya channel, and Shevkunov is also the spiritual director of both projects – a magazine and a TV show. Among the guests of the “Russian House” are representatives of the “Russian National Unity” (RNU) and the “Black Hundred”.

From Father Tikhin and more global projects. He was one of the activists of the movement for the canonization of the royal homeland. Having finished the “Christian march” against the magician David Copperfield’s tour in Russia, they informed the flock that “the magic tricks of this vulgar American Woland” put the spectators “behind the dark and ruinous forces.” And his most prominent project is the fight against “satanic” barcodes and individual tax payer numbers (IPN). The barcodes and IPN, in the opinion of Father Tikhon, have a disguised “number of the beast” - 666. Moreover, the hidden system is subordinate to the Orthodox total control on the side of the secular, anti-Orthodox, in Tikhon’s opinion, power. This article “Schengen zone”, dedicated to this “global problem”, was published in the second organ of the RNU “Russian order”. They don’t care about those that Father Tikhin will seal his ties with the Russian nations, they look even closer.

The holy father’s axis of darkness is about censorship. “Censorship is a normal tool in a normal marriage, which can take everything to the extreme. I am especially for her - both in the religious sphere and in the secular one. Before the state censorship, it is too early to clearly understand the need for this institution to come into marriage. We know how Alexander Sergeyovich Pushkin, in his youth, barked at censorship, as in the word “stupid”, and did not rip it off. And for a long time I advocated for censorship.” Tikhon’s last phrase, however, put A.S.’s creativity in a dark place. Pushkin. Well, without Pushkin writing such a thing!

Tikhin was one of Putin’s first greetings to the “enthroned” and at all times seemed happy with Yeltsin’s immediate exit, condemning the “era of Yeltsinism.”

Father Tikhin tells the story of his acquaintance with Putin. They always advertise their closeness to the first person. In the church stakes, they have a feeling that Tikhon is the confessor of the president, launched by Tikhon himself. The certified screenwriter himself does not confirm this rumor, but is not casual - he coquets: “What kind of Richelieu are you hoping to earn from me?” No less, journalists from Moscow magazines wrote in Tikhon’s words that “Volodymyr Putin is constantly confessing to him. He himself instructs the president in spiritual life.”

Regardless of his real (or obvious) closeness to the President of Diplomas, screenwriter Tikhon is actively trying to make money. As it seems, now the Patriarch himself is afraid of telling him.