... he resisted the communist authorities' efforts to make the alexander nevsky cathedral in the city a planetarium (which, in truth, they did do elsewhere in the baltic states) and to convert the bpyukhtitsa/b dormition nunnery to a rest ...
... he resisted the communist authorities' efforts to make the alexander nevsky cathedral in the city a planetarium (which, in truth, they did do elsewhere in the baltic states) and to convert the bpyukhtitsa/b dormition nunnery to a rest ...
yesterday, we talked of vladyki aleksei?s spiritual and friendly relationship with mother varvara of bpyukhtitsa/b, one of the great elders of our day. now, let?s look at a classic painting of a nun by the great russian artist ilya repin. ...
