"Tsarebozhie" is a religious trend that implies "faith in the Tsar-redeemer." And as such a king, the adherents of this doctrine offer the holy martyr Nicholas II, the last monarch of the Russian Empire.
Heresy of the Kings
From a doctrinal point of view, "Tsar's God" is a departure from canonical Orthodoxy, and indeed from Christianity in general, since this cult includes such a concept as "the expiatory sacrifice of the Tsar for the sins of the entire Russian people." At the same time, there was only one atoning sacrifice in Christianity, and it was Christ who brought it, and not for the sins of any particular people, but for the sins of all mankind.
Nevertheless, this doctrine has a historical background, and it is worth talking about it separately, because it is really interesting. And it’s worth starting a conversation not even from the beginning of the Romanov dynasty, to which Nicholas II belonged, but from the last Rurikovich, Ivan Vasilyevich the Terrible.
Here it is worth mentioning that in the ultra-Orthodox environment there are quite a lot of cults and sects that treat certain Russian state leaders with special, sacred reverence. There are, for example, admirers of Joseph “Soviet”, in the sense of Stalin, with the corresponding icons, and there are, for example, those who believe that Ivan the Terrible not only deserves canonization, but has long been a locally venerated saint, and “the Church is hushing up this ".
Ivan the Terrible - a saint?
The story of Ivan the Terrible is based mainly on the fact that his name got into the "Saints of the Koryazhma Monastery", where the following is literally written: "June 10 - the acquisition of the holy body of the Great Martyr Tsar John", and this set of Russian saints was completed in 1621 . However, as Church historians note, this is an extremely inaccurate code with numerous errors. For example, it mentions the Kyiv abbot Abraham, whose canonization in these Saints is attributed to the fifth century after the Nativity of Christ, that is, about five hundred years before the Baptism of Russia.
Ivan Vasilyevich is also present on the icons, and this is also a historical fact. But how exactly is it present? For example, on the fresco in the Palace of the Facets, Ivan IV with a halo, but on the fresco there is no signature with the word “saint”, there he is “Tsar John Vasilyevich”. This tradition, to depict especially revered rulers with a halo, came from Byzantium.
The most famous such fresco is the image of Emperor Basil the Bulgar-Slayer. Also with a halo, but by nickname, try to guess what exactly he went down in history for, and what his deed was “the brightest”. And understandably, he was not canonized. By the way, from such acts, Tsar Kaloyan later appeared in Bulgaria with the nickname "Greek Fighter".
In general, returning to Ivan the Terrible, it is worth saying that he was revered and respected by people, but these are not at all the conditions for canonizing him.
Beginning of kingship
Nevertheless, it was precisely the fact that the "Terrible Tsar" did not leave heirs, which subsequently happened the Time of Troubles, and then the Zemsky Sobor, and became the starting point for "Tsar's God". We are talking about the Cathedral Oath of 1613, which, in particular, says: “It is commanded that the Chosen One of God, Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich Romanov, be the ancestor of the Rulers in Russia from generation to generation, with responsibility in his affairs before the one Heavenly Tsar. And who will go against this Council decision - whether the King, whether the Patriarch, and every person, may he be cursed by such in this century and in the future, for he will be excommunicated from the Holy Trinity.
This oath, understandably, extended to the entire royal family of the Romanovs. And according to the tsarebozhnikov, in 1917 the people, the descendants of those who signed the Cathedral Oath, all en masse betrayed the last Russian Tsar. And supposedly for this we, all the descendants of those descendants, should repent.
What are national sins
At the same time, Orthodox theologians note some illogicality in this teaching. If the sacrifice of Nicholas II was expiatory for the sins of the Russian people, then the sins, based simply on the terminology, have already been atoned for. And why, then, the notorious "nationwide repentance"?
This is not to mention the fact that Christianity does not imply "collective", "national sins". A collective, so to speak, sin, or rather, its consequences, since the sin itself was just redeemed by the Sacrifice of Christ on the Cross, only one is the firstborn, all the rest are personally of each person, committed by him, the person, and not his distant ancestors.
At the same time, unlike the same Ivan the Terrible, Nicholas II was canonized along with his family. First in the ROCOR, and then in the ROC. But the very wording of his canonization simply does not provide for any special cult around this largely unfortunate man.
The resolution of the commission for the canonization of the Royal Family contains, in particular, the following words: “The commission noted that in the life of Nicholas II there were two periods of unequal duration and spiritual significance - the time of the reign and the time of being imprisoned. In the first period (staying in power), the commission did not find sufficient grounds for canonization, the second period (spiritual and physical suffering) is more important for the Church, and therefore it focused its attention on it.
In general, Nicholas II is indeed a holy martyr, and indeed was canonized, but all other speculations on the theme of the “king-redeemer” and “collective repentance” are, in general, not quite canonical Orthodoxy, but rather some kind of a special cult that actively mimics Orthodoxy.
The name of the last, tragically dead Russian tsar again appears in the media scandal. The previous "hype" flared up around the circumstances of his personal life; the current one is about the circumstances of death.
A prominent figure in the Russian Orthodox Church, Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov), reported at the conference “The case of the murder of the royal family: new expertise and materials. Discussion” that in the course of a new investigation launched by the Investigative Committee in 2015, the version of the ritual murder of Nikolai Romanov, his family and associates will be verified, and that this version meets “the most serious attitude” in the Russian Orthodox Church.
In response, the chairman of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, Alexander Boroda, burst into an angry rebuke, accusing the Russian Orthodox Church and the Investigative Committee of intending to ... slander the Jews.
“Accusing the Jews of ritual murder is one of the most ancient anti-Semitic slanders. He repeatedly served as the cause of persecution, the victims of which were hundreds and thousands of people. But every time these accusations were considered by people who were not infected with anti-Semitic prejudices, it turned out that this slander is false ... It is regrettable that it is raised again, presenting the slanderous slander as a version worthy of verification.- said Beard.
The response is, frankly, asymmetric. Bishop Tikhon did not say a word about the Jews (and then he specifically explained that there was no talk of any Jewish rituals).
Rituals - religious, occult or civil - in the world are innumerable, as are the beliefs and beliefs behind these rituals. Instantly taking the words about the ritual murder personally and reacting as if it is impossible to blame anyone but the Jews for the ritual murders is a counterproductive reaction.
However, further, as they say, away we go. “Savagery”, “obscurantism”, “bottom”, “how can one seriously talk about ritual murders in the 21st century ?!” - these are the mildest expressions that the Russian Orthodox Church and the Investigative Committee are now hearing in their address.
To be honest, such a violent indignation causes rather a backlash.
When we hear that something that does not contradict the laws of physics and biology “simply cannot be talked about”, because it is “wild” and “indecent” - this is alarming. And it automatically raises the thought: do they want to hide something from us?
In ritual murder - i.e. murder for religious or occult reasons - nothing is impossible.
Even the most militant atheist will not deny the existence of believers - and the fact that for the sake of their faith, believers are sometimes ready to do a lot, even kill and die. In the same way, it is possible (and perhaps even necessary) not to believe in various mystical and occult concepts - but it is obvious that there are many people in the world who believe in them. And this belief can induce them to actions, including very serious ones.
By the beginning of the Civil War in Russia, there was a fairly long and strong tradition of extra-church mysticism.
Throughout the 19th century, non-church (and partly anti-church) mystical teachings and practices, from Khlystism to spiritualism, were widespread and popular in the country, both among the lower and upper classes. And at the beginning of the 20th century, this hobby became widespread among the intelligentsia.
Reading the literature of the Silver Age, we see that not even every second author, but nine out of ten, is carried away by mysticism and the occult - sometimes very "dark", up to direct devil worship.
And this is not a specific feature of the Russian Silver Age: the same "religious revival" with a strong flavor of the occult, often associated with a protest against Christianity (or at least the church establishment), occurred in those same years in Europe and the USA.
This general craze did not escape the Bolsheviks - at least some of them.
One can recall both Lunacharsky and Bogdanov with his semi-scientific, semi-occult developments, and the contacts of the Bolshevik elite with Roerich. In the choice of the pentagram as a symbol, in the construction of the Mausoleum and the creation of the cult of the "eternally living" Lenin, one feels a certain very specific scent.
Yes, the Bolsheviks positioned themselves as atheists and materialists - but occultism (unlike institutional religion) does not contradict atheism, and if it uses quasi-scientific explanations, it does not contradict materialism either. As for Christianity in general and the Orthodox Church in particular, the sharply negative attitude of the Bolsheviks towards them is well known and does not need proof.
And the Russian emperor, among other things, was an important religious figure. He is “the anointed of God”, he is the head of the Orthodox Church.
The sacred meaning of the figure of a king, king or emperor is a common place for both religious studies and various mystical and occult concepts.
People whose picture of the world included a decisive opposition to both the Orthodox Church and the "old order" in general, could well consider the tsar, including as a sacred enemy. This has not been proven, but it is quite possible, and there is no more “wild” or “indecent” in such a hypothesis than in the recognition that ISIS* attacks are carried out from religious motives.
It is worth noting that the “rituality” of the murder of Nicholas II and his relatives was already carried out in 1998, during the previous investigation, and then this motive for the murder was rejected. However, such a check itself did not cause any public outrage.
Why is this important for the ROC? In addition to the fact that religious issues in general are of paramount importance for the church, here it has a specific and practical motive.
Now Nicholas II is recognized by the church as a saint in the rank of trust-bearer. This is the name of the saints who suffered suffering and death not for the Christian faith, but for purely “worldly” reasons - as a result of a conspiracy or political assassination.
But, if Nicholas was killed as a religious figure, as a representative of the church, for religious or mystical reasons, his posthumous “status” changes. It turns out martyr- the "title" is more popular and honorable, allowing to develop a wider veneration of the last king, with various favorable consequences, up to material gain.
Why did this attract the attention of the FEOR chairman and prompted him to immediately “turn the arrows” on the Jews?
The most common explanation for this is: Well, everyone understands what it is about - after all, it is the Jews who are constantly accused of ritual murders, remember at least the Beilis case!
But "they still understand" - in general, the argument is slippery, like any attempt to read minds. When, in the course of a public discussion, we suddenly hear: “Well, they still understand! ..” - it's time to stop and ask: what exactly do they understand? Please, out loud, even in syllables.
Are Jews somehow more prone to the occult than all other citizens? It seems not.
There is a legend about ritual murders in Judaism, the so-called. "blood libel" - but the murder of Nicholas II simply does not correspond to her plot: Nicholas was not a little boy, he was killed not on Easter and not at all in the way described in the legend. If some kind of ritual was performed in the Ipatiev House, then obviously not this one.
Or is it about something else - that, according to the belief widespread in conservative and "anti-Soviet" circles, the revolution was made (or at least took an active organizational part in it) by Russian Jews, and precisely because of a specific religious / national hostility to the national majority and its religion?
This is a much broader and more serious claim.
The disproportionate role of the Jews among the revolutionary leaders was noticeable to all parties during the revolution itself and the Civil War. It was conspicuous, reflected in almost all works of art written about that time “in hot pursuit”. It was actively discussed - among other things, the Jews themselves, both supporters of the revolution (Trotsky) and opponents (Gershenzon), discussed it and tried to comprehend this phenomenon.
It is clear that this question is painful, and the very touch of it causes a reaction of rejection: what people like to be involved in bloody atrocities?
And, perhaps, one of the ways to divert public attention from this painful topic, which inevitably pops up in connection with the anniversary of the revolution, is to marginalize it, reducing the conversation in advance to the scandalous and easily refuted plot of the “blood libel”, telling what to say and even think about such only wild outcasts and obscurantists can do things.
The topic of anti-Semitism is generally win-win in terms of switching attention.
In any incomprehensible situation, it is enough to exclaim: “How? Do you accuse the Jews… (of drinking the blood of Christian babies, worshiping Satan, descended from reptilians, etc.)?” And the deed is done.
Some fall silent in fright and even try to think of something else so that they are not written down as anti-Semites. Others, on the contrary, perk up, begin to talk a lot, colorfully and with great fervor - but about reptilians. And the thesis: “Only crazy obscurantists can discuss such things at all!” - is confirmed brilliantly.
It is worth saying that the “stuffing” regarding Nicholas II and his fate, following one after another in the last two years, generally looks strange.
It began, I remember, with an all-Moscow vote on the name of the Voykovskaya metro station.The initiative itself looked very positive: not so often the authorities ask the opinion of ordinary people about what toponyms, surrounded by which symbols people want to live, they do not often encourage them to actively form and express their opinion about important and controversial events in national history. Strictly speaking, this never happens at all - with Voykovskaya there was the first such case.
And the audience responded gratefully. For several months, politically active citizens immersed themselves in the history of the issue, read sources, formed their opinions, spoke out, argued, and voted.
It turned out that the ratio is divided approximately in half.
Some consider the murder of the royal family a crime that cannot be forgotten or reconciled with; for others, the attitude ranges from “everything was done right with Nikolashka” to “yes, it somehow turned out badly, but in history this doesn’t happen, which is now.”
There is no public consensus.
Perhaps someone “upstairs” might have seemed like a good idea to continue to “pump the topic” ... and the next act was a many-month farce around the film “Matilda”.
The campaign against the film, led by a well-known and hyped woman MP, covered in detail in the media - somewhere in a positive way, somewhere in a negative way, but covered daily and in great detail - scandalous statements, threats, vague promises to burn cinemas, even arrests "extremists" - all this for a long time riveted the attention of society to the figure of Nicholas II. But in a very specific way.
Forgetting about his deeds on the throne, and about the fall, and about death, the country began to discuss in unison an unusually important question: did he sleep before the wedding with the ballerina or did not sleep? The tragically deceased ruler of Russia was lowered to the level of a gossip playboy.
“Mathildagate” lasted for almost a year, the public, with a powerful media feed, sucked on the bed affairs of the last emperor. Finally, the notorious film nevertheless came out on the screens - and everything, as it was cut off.
Where are the rallies and religious processions? Where are the ferocious Orthodox fanatics who promised to burn cinemas? There is not. The topic is over. Turned the switch and the light went off.
Now a new stuffing - and from the win-win topic of "strawberries" we move on to the next equally win-win topic: the Jewish question.The general picture is as follows.
What did Nicholas II do during his lifetime? Yes, either he slept with Matilda, or he didn’t sleep. In general, some nonsense was engaged. And how did he die? Come on, they say, the Jews sacrificed him ... although no, well, this is some kind of nonsense, what is there to discuss at all! In a word, “he lived sinfully and died ridiculously,” and only fools or wild obscurantists can be seriously interested in the circumstances of his life or death.
Maybe I'm into conspiracy theories. Perhaps, my own experience of practical work in political organizations leaves an imprint on me - and, in particular, what the special services had to observe on private issues, at a very local level.
"Strawberry" and "Jews" - these are two topics that work flawlessly, like in a textbook. Or in order to compromise - then the “target” itself is accused of sexual debauchery and Jewish origin; or in order to take the organization away from productive activity and the fight against real problems - then it is persistently offered to fight against "debauchery" or "world Zionism".
What are we being led away from in connection with the figure of Nicholas II? From the question of the causes of the revolution? About what kind of people and why did they become its organizers and agents? About whether the abdication of Nicholas was legitimate, and can the Soviet government and its successor, the current government, be considered the legitimate owners of the country? About who should own the "royal gold"?
Don't know. But the fact that some dirty manipulations are going on around the life and death of the last king is visible to the naked eye.
* An organization in respect of which a court has made a final decision to liquidate or ban activities on the grounds provided for by the Federal Law "On countering extremist activity"
Like flies, here and there, rumors are circulating from house to house... The number one topic that has excited people lately has been the mysterious "reclusion" of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin in Novo-Ogaryovo and the unexpectedly intensified campaign to combat corruption on the highest floors Russian power pyramid. Fellow citizens, taught by bitter experience, stubbornly do not want to believe in the myth imposed by the “zomboyaschik” that the fathers of domestic corruption suddenly decided, for no apparent reason, to fight with their own offspring.
Our wise people rightly suspect that the fight is not really against the feeder, but for the redistribution of preferential places near it. After all, everyone knows who actually shouts the loudest: “Stop the thief!” Yes, yes ... exactly the one on whom the hat is on fire. And what will happen if the hat really burns out, and the rotting fish suddenly turns out to be decapitated? Simply put, what will happen to Russia after Putin?
It turns out that this question fifteen years ago was already asked by pilgrims to the well-known throughout the Orthodox world, the elder Archpriest Nikolai (Guryanov).
“- Father Nikolai, who will be after Yeltsin? What can we expect?
After there will be a military man.
Is it soon?
- ... His power will be linear. But his age is small, and he himself. There will be persecution against Chernorizians and the church. Power will be like under the communists and the Politburo.
And then there will be an Orthodox Tsar.
Will we live, father?
You, yes ... "
Is it really possible, and, at most after 2024, and maybe even earlier, Russia will again be reborn as an autocratic Orthodox empire? The well-known prophecies of Russian saints (St. Theophan (Bystrov), St. Theophan of Poltava, St. Lawrence of Chernigov, St. Seraphim of Sarov and many, many others) give an affirmative answer to this question. With slight differences in details, but in unity, in fact, these prophecies tell us that sooner or later something will happen in our country that no one expects. Russia will be transformed by nationwide repentance, will rise from the dead and, together with all the Slavic peoples and lands, will form a mighty Kingdom. He will be nourished by the Orthodox Tsar, God's Anointed One, a man of fiery faith, a brilliant mind and an iron will, whom even the Antichrist will be afraid of.
The coming Tsar will be chosen and installed by God Himself, he will first of all restore order in the Orthodox Church, removing all untrue, heretical and lukewarm bishops. And many, very many, with few exceptions, almost all of them will be eliminated, and new, true, unshakable bishops will take their place...
These prophecies are so well known that they are even used by some political technologists to influence the subconscious of the population in election battles. Suffice it to recall how the topic of the portrait resemblance between Dmitry Medvedev and the martyr Emperor Nicholas II was discussed during the 2008 presidential elections. Even the age of "landing on the kingdom" "accidentally" coincided. In general, there was an impression that someone, nominating Dmitry Anatolyevich to the highest state post, tried to deceive the future with a false interpretation of prophecies from the past.
The very idea of restoring the monarchy as an alternative project for Russia periodically pops up at the external and internal political levels. From abroad, this idea is actively lobbied in its own interests by Great Britain, while not disdaining the services of very dubious characters like Berezovsky. After all, as you know, Boris Abramovich not so long ago publicly announced the creation of a new party, the purpose of which is to erect the British Prince Harry, the youngest son of the Prince of Wales Charles, to the Russian throne (more).
In their native land, mid-level politicians from the half-forgotten now liberal human rights activist and at the same time the coordinator of "ER" on national policy Abdul-Khakim Sultygov, to the right-wing conservative leaders of the specially created Monarchist Party "Autocratic Russia" are periodically obsequiously engaged in the search for a democratic procedure for enthroning the incumbent head of state .
Both are wrong. According to the already mentioned prophecies, the last Russian Tsar will not be elected by a parliamentary vote, but begged for by nationwide repentance, and he will be placed on the throne of the All-Russian not by a party congress, but by the Lord God Himself.
The Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise (886 - 911) left to posterity a prophetic text about what the appearance of the coming King might be: “It is fitting for him to reveal himself in the radiance of light and [other] signs. This one will be called from an Angel, having the image of a man-eunuch in white robes, who will speak in his ear, embraced by sleep: “Arise, sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. For He calls you to shepherd a great people.” And another time he says: “Go out, hidden one, and do not hide, for many are looking for you.” And for the third time, he will hand him the tablets of stone with the inscription of two laws, of which the first is “Revenge [enemies] and give the people everything they need”, the second - “Destroy wickedness, punish with fire those who do the deeds of Sodom. Above this, cast out the vicious priests from the temple, and put the worthy again into the service of God. That king has special signs. On the nail of his right foot he has a bright spot, and on both shoulder blades there is a purple-like inscription of the cross ... but the name of this king is hidden among the peoples. And the Lord will lay His hand on his head...
This can happen according to the laws of similarity in an environment that mirrors the tragic events of 1917. Treason, cowardice and deception, which entailed the renunciation of the people from their crowned father, must be opposed by truth, courage and fidelity, thanks to which, in the fire of the coming world war, the people will suffer the true Anointed of God. As Elder Nikolai (Guryanov) rightly preached: “Russia will not rise until it realizes who our Russian Tsar Nikolai was. Without true Repentance, there is no true Glorification of the King. Russia must realize that without God - not to the threshold, without the king - as without a father! Whoever loves the Tsar and Russia loves God. If a person does not love the Tsar and Russia, he will never sincerely love God. It will be a sly lie!”
Unfortunately, while our people, to tell the truth, although they are fed up with lies, each time in a new bright package they continue to “devour” it and consume it unconsciously. Well, tell me: in what other country in the world can the name of the prophet who predicted in detail the fate of the country and the royal dynasty be forgotten, erased from the memory of the people? And we can have such a thing ... After all, few people today know about the “Russian Nostradamus”, the monk Abel, over whose resting place in the walls of the Spaso-Evfimiev Monastery in Suzdal, even a grave cross, and he was not put by ungrateful descendants.
On November 29, 1841, the earthly path of Vasily Vasilyev ended here, who took the angelic rank under the name of Adam, was convicted, stripped, re-ordained under the name of Abel, and again condemned. The life path of the prophet in his Fatherland began 55 years before this date, in 1787 on Valaam. During the monastic service, he had a vision of two angels who raised the monk to heaven, like the Apostle Paul, and told him: “Be you the new Adam and the ancient father Dadamey, and write if you saw it; and say that thou hast heard. But do not tell everyone and write not to everyone, but only to my chosen ones and only to my saints; write to those who can accommodate our words and our punishments. And on the night of November 1, 1787, he had another "wonderful and wonderful vision", which lasted "at least thirty hours."
The Lord told him about the secrets of the future, commanding him to convey these predictions to the people. “And from that time, Father Abel began to know everything and understand everything, and prophesy.” "Zero scary books" written by the seer were instantly confiscated by the authorities and classified. It is curious that his writings are still kept under the heading of secrecy in state archives, since, according to legend, they describe the fate of Russia and its rulers until the end of the century.
Only very recently, the Orthodox media published sensational news that two prophetic icons were discovered, painted at the end of the 18th century according to the predictions of Abel the Clairvoyant. True, the place of storage of these icons remained a mystery, which makes it difficult to personally verify their authenticity.
One of the icons mentioned was allegedly painted by the icon painter Lazar at the request of Paul I, following the prophecy of the clairvoyant Abel about the last king. The message of Paul I read: "To my descendant Nicholas, who was born on the day of Job the Long-suffering, to be opened on the hundredth anniversary of my death." Attached to the message was this icon, painted in May 1798, 70 years before the birth of Nicholas II.
The image of Tsar Nicholas II is depicted on the icon, above the head is the inscription: "The Great Martyr Nicholas", while a clear portrait resemblance is revealed, which is completely inexplicable from the point of view of secular logic. In addition, the main milestones in the life of our long-suffering sovereign are written in detail on the margins of the icon in the form of separate images with the corresponding inscriptions: « Betrayal”, “Shot with his family”, “Buried in an unknown place”. At the sight of all this, one is involuntarily amazed at how a simple Russian monk could see through the centuries the fate of unborn people, the unpredictable future of Russia.
It is authentically known about the following fulfilled prophecies of the monk Abel:
- Catherine II: "... will reign for 40 years".
- Alexander I: “The Frenchman will burn Moscow in his presence, and he will take Paris from him and call him Blessed. But secret grief will become unbearable for him, and the royal crown will seem heavy to him, and he will replace the feat of royal service with the feat of fasting and prayer ... ".
- Nicholas I: "The beginning of the reign of Nicholas will begin with a fight, with a Voltairian rebellion ...".
- Alexander II: “Destined by the Tsar-Liberator ... he will give freedom to the serfs, and after that he will beat the Turks and the Slavs will also free them from the yoke of the infidel. The rebels will not forgive him for his great deeds, they will start “hunting” for him, they will kill him in the middle of a clear day in the capital.”
- Alexander III: "True peacemaker. Glorious will be his reign. He will lay siege to the cursed sedition, he will bring peace and order. But the reign will not be long".
- Nicholas II: “He will have the mind of Christ, long-suffering and dove-like purity ... He will replace the royal crown with a crown of thorns ... There will be a Redeemer. He will redeem His people with Himself - like a Bloodless Sacrifice. The first war will be, the great world war: On the eve of victory, the royal throne will collapse. Brother will rise up against brother. And he will be betrayed, as once the Son of God was crucified. A man with an ax will take power in madness, but he himself will cry afterwards. The Execution of Egypt will truly come ... And then the Jew will scour the Russian Land like a scorpion, rob its Shrines, close the Churches of God, execute the best Russian people. This is the permission of God, the wrath of the Lord for the renunciation of Russia from the Holy Tsar.
- To the Coming King: ... “Impossible for man, possible for God,” Abel replied, “God is slow to help, but it is said in Scripture that he will give it soon and raise a horn of salvation for the Russian. And the Great Prince will rise in exile from the House of Romanov, standing for the sons of His people. This will be the Chosen One God's, and His blessing is on His Head. He will be one and understandable to everyone, the very Russian heart will teach him. His appearance will be Sovereign and Bright, and no one will say: "The Tsar is here or there," but: "It is He." The will of the people will submit God's grace, and He Himself will confirm His calling: His name is thrice destined for the history of Russia. Two namesakes have already been on the Throne, but not the Tsar's. on the Russian mountain. Alive in the help of the Most High, He will Sit on the Throne of Glory. This is the one about which it was revealed to the Prophet Daniel: "And at that time Michael will rise, the great prince, standing for the sons of your people ..." (Dan. 12: 1) Russian hopes will come true. Constantinople, the Orthodox Cross will shine, Holy Russia will be filled with the smoke of incense and prayers and will flourish, like a heavenly cry ... "
The last prophecy, by the way, is associated with many disputes and interpretations, the subject of which are unsuccessful attempts to figure out the name of the coming King. It should be noted that in the Orthodox environment, the most widespread version is that he will be Michael. This version is just based on the above literal interpretation of the words of the prophet Daniel. But therein lies its weakness. It is too easy to keep in secret the secret name of an Orthodox autocrat who was hidden until the time by God Himself. In fact, if we proceed from the fact that Michael in translation means “who is like God”, then we can assume that the coming King in the prophecies is called Michael not by name, but by image, according to an allegorical description of his merits and greatness.
If so, how can we recognize the coming King? God knows. And without a doubt, everything secret will become clear in due time. In the meantime, it remains only to guess and study the most diverse versions and guesses from those that are now published on Orthodox forums.
For example, since 2004, a story about the appearance of St. Seraphim of Sarov has been wandering around the net, saying that the Tsar has already been chosen by the Lord and will be revealed to Russia through the Russian prophet and the Icon of the Mother of God of Częstochowa.
If you look closely at the mentioned image of the Most Holy Theotokos, it may seem that the outlines of the scar lines on Her cheek add up to the letter “A”. Maybe it is with this letter that the name of the future Russian savior begins? For example, Alexis. After all, "two namesakes were already on the Throne, but not the Tsar's." And it was not by chance that the Holy Emperor-Martyr Nicholas II himself chose for his heir a name that comes from the ancient Greek word "Alex", meaning "to protect."
And, it is true, what our people most need from the Lord now is not a savior, but a protector. One involuntarily recalls the dream of Tsarevich Alexy once expressed aloud: “When I am Tsar, there will be no poor and unfortunate, I want everyone to be happy!”
But even St. John Chrysostom wrote: “anyone can rule, but only a tsar can die for his people,” which the sovereign-martyr did 95 years ago, humbly ascending the Russian Golgotha. There was no weakness in this humility, but infinite courage in fulfillment of the will of God about the coming Russia, the understanding of which is given only with time and only to those who seek it.
The Monk Maximus the Greek said: "The King is an animated image of the Heavenly King." Tsar-martyr Nicholas II, all the royal martyrs by their life and death proved the truth of this statement in order to give us, the heirs of the Great Empire, an example of true Faith, Hope, Love and Wisdom. Will we understand? Shall we repent? Will we be forgiven..?
That is why prophecies are given by God, so that, according to the words of the Apostle Paul, “by patience and consolation from the Scriptures we have hope.” "For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets" (Amos 3:7). And even though the clouds of a new war are gathering over the world today, the successors of the Turkic Kaganate, under the banner of a wolf, are driving Christians out of Syria, while dividing bloodless Russia into parts in their minds, but we all know that the promise of Father Seraphim of Sarov will come true:
"Before the end of time, Russia will merge into one great sea with other Slavic lands and tribes, it will form one sea or that vast universal ocean of the people, about which the Lord God spoke from ancient times through the lips of all the saints:" Terrible and invincible Kingdom of All Russia, pan-Slavic - Gog and Magog before whom all nations will tremble." And all this is the same as two times two makes four, and certainly, like God is holy, who from ancient times foretold about him and his formidable dominion over the earth. By the combined forces of Russia and other peoples, Constantinople and Jerusalem will be full of .When Turkey is divided, almost all of it will remain with Russia ... "
Maxim Leskov
As a champion, Kasparov retained his sanity and charm. But when he turned forty, he lost his patience in the game. The international chess bureaucracy is so enigmatic that Kasparov, despite having the highest rating in the world and his famous matches against computers, never got a chance to replay the match with Kramnik. He was sure that he was still the best player in the world, but he could not prove it.
“When I lost to Kramnik in 2000, it was not easy to think about returning,” he says, “for two years I tried to regain my lost position - I studied, I played: I did not lose desire, but I really need to be at the forefront of the attack. I played with the computer .I looked around."
It was difficult for Kasparov to keep his attention on chess. He sought to increase his already significant fortune through various business schemes - the export of Russian sculptures, an attempt to buy the GUM shopping complex located next to Red Square opposite the Kremlin. All these attempts were unsuccessful. "I was a bad businessman," says Kasparov, "I like the big big picture; I don't like to deal with details." By 2004, Kasparov had lost interest in chess. "It was a year of breakups," he says. Kasparov already had one divorce, now he was engaged in the second.
“I didn’t want to leave the world of chess on a minor note,” he says, “but I wanted my son to see me win on stage again. In 2004, the Russian championship was held in Moscow, and my son was eight years old. I took him with me to the Rossiya Hotel, and I won, and he saw the final awards ceremony and put a medal around his neck."
At the beginning of 2005, Kasparov planned to play one last tournament - in the chess center in the south of Spain in the city of Linares. He only told his mother and his third future wife Daria Tarasova, a graduate of the St. Petersburg business school, about his intention to leave chess. After taking first place in the round-robin tournament, Kasparov lost in the final round to Veselin Topalov. There is a video recording of the final thirty minutes of this meeting. Kasparov suffers on screen far more convincingly than Sarah Bernhardt herself. He wipes his face with a handkerchief. He looks mournfully at the ceiling. When he gives up, anxiety arises about what he might do to himself. “I finally felt like I didn’t want to do this anymore,” he told me. “It was very strange. I changed my pace of life and my priorities, but I didn’t lose my fighting spirit.”
Not so long ago, Kasparov gave a speech at the Four Seasons restaurant to the staff and guests of the neoconservative think tank Hudson Institute (Hudson Institute). Among the invitees were television journalist and former Nixon aide Monica Crowley, and neoconservative former Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz, who had just become a foreign policy adviser to Rudolph Giuliani.
Kasparov presented a somewhat modified version of the speech he had previously delivered in Washington and Toronto. There were several soothing phrases like "Putin's regime is not a geopolitical monster." But Kasparov did not spare the gloomy warnings either. "The Cold War was based on ideas that people liked or disliked," he said.
When one of the guests asked how he could help the Russian opposition, Kasparov was careful not to stir up old Cold War fantasies. He said: “We are not looking for outside support. The only thing we want from the leaders of the free world is that they tell Putin: “You cannot act like Lukashenko (the fickle president of Belarus), Mugabe or Hugo Chavez, and at the same time expect to be treated as a democratic leader."
Kasparov often speaks in the West to two kinds of audiences: those in the business community, who view him as a product of the American career-adviser business, and conservative political organizations. He resembles futurist and writer John Naisbitt, with a touch of chess. He believes that success on the boardroom of a large company requires the same planning, strategy, and discipline as success on a chessboard. He uses the same kind of spectacular technique in his new book "Chess as a model of life" ("How Life Imitates Chess"). Kasparov is also popular among American right-wing politicians. In 1991, he received the "Keeper of the Flame" award from the neoconservative think tank called the Center for Security Policy. The same award, which is given to "people who have dedicated their public careers to defending the United States of America and American values around the world," went to Newt Gingrich, Paul Wolfowitz, and Donald Rumsfeld.
This award did Kasparov a disservice in his homeland. Russia has a centuries-old tradition of xenophobia. During the Soviet era, Sakharov, Solzhenitsyn, Pasternak and hundreds of other people were accused in the pages of Pravda of working for the CIA, MI6 and Mossad. Vladimir Kryuchkov, head of the KGB under Gorbachev and overseeing the August 1991 putsch, constantly tried to convince the Soviet leader that his most liberal adviser Alexander Yakovlev was working as a covert "agent of the imperialist intelligence services." So while Americans like Kasparov's efficiency and ease of conduct abroad, he is a constant target in Russia, where the people of that country are suspicious of what they call the political arrogance of the West.
Putin skillfully uses the traditional Russian suspicion of foreigners. Boris Dubin of the Levada Center, the world's most independent and trusted public opinion research institute, said that in 1994, 41 percent of the population thought Russia was surrounded by enemies. By 2003, that number had increased to seventy-seven percent. Putin gets loud applause when he lashes out at neighbors, cutting off gas supplies to Ukraine or waging a sort of "cold war" with Georgia. In 2000, just before his election as president, Putin told a meeting at the FSB: "A few years ago we fell victim to the illusion that we have no enemies, and we had to pay dearly for that." Putin and his team have made it clear that Russia will not tolerate uprisings such as those in Georgia and Ukraine. They say foreign organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy are responsible for these events.
Behind this newfound sense of self-confidence is also a shift in ideology. In the era of Khrushchev and Brezhnev, the "grey eminence" of ideological correctness was a strict and ascetic man named Mikhail Suslov. Suslov reasoned in terms of Lenin's article "State and Revolution". Putin's strategist, a calm and suave ex-businessman in his early 40s named Vladislav Surkov, is solely interested in the strength and independence of the Russian state. He relies on such Russian nationalist philosophers as Yevgeny Trubetskoy and Ivan Ilyin. In 2005, Surkov gave a secret report to a group of businessmen entitled "How Russia Should Fight International Conspiracies." In it, he proposed the ideology of "sovereign democracy". The term suggests that democracy comes in many forms, and that "Russian democracy" will develop in its own way and at its own pace. Surkov says in his speeches that Russia should expose Western hypocrisy: "They talk to us about democracy, while they themselves think about our hydrocarbons all the time."
Every morning the delegates of The Other Russia, who gathered for the July conference at the Holiday Inn, were greeted by one of Surkov's brainchildren. Members of the pro-Putin youth organization Molodaya Gvardiya, reminiscent of Soviet times, staged a demonstration mocking Kasparov and his comrades. The Young Guard is the youth branch of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party.
After the "orange revolution" in Ukraine two years ago, Putin's Kremlin, led by Surkov, contributed to the creation of a whole series of youth organizations in the image and likeness of the Soviet Komsomol. The largest of these groups, with ten thousand active members and capable of bringing hundreds of thousands to their events, is called Nashi. Nashi, like the Komsomol at one time, organizes the work of volunteers and urges young people to give up smoking and drinking. But it also includes a special group of activists who specialize in persecuting the opposition. One of the tasks that were set at the entrance exams for those wishing to get into the Nashi summer camp was to characterize Kasparov. The "correct" answer was that he was an American citizen sworn to the State Department to undermine Russia from within. According to Kasparov, "Nashi" were created mainly to disrupt the activities of the opposition.
The demonstration in front of the Holiday Inn consisted of no more than fifty people. They were wearing red t-shirts and baseball caps. The demonstrators chanted: "Kasparov Judas!" They threw counterfeit US $30 bills on the ground and shouted slogans about "political prostitutes." A small brass band played a funeral march.
At major rallies organized this year in Moscow and St. Petersburg by the Other Russia, youth from Nashi and the Young Guard were joined by thousands of riot police and fighters from antiterrorist units. After the rally in Moscow, this event was covered on TV news exclusively as an event sponsored by the US State Department. That evening, state television aired a French documentary called "Revolution.com" that attempted to showcase the role American non-governmental organizations played in organizing and funding revolutions in Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Serbia. The Russian audience did not know (until this story appeared in the pages of the Kommersant newspaper) that six minutes had been cut from this 44-minute film. Television officials removed all criticism of Putin and the description of Nashi as a "secret anti-revolutionary ministry." Kasparov has practically no access to state television. "And when they show me on the screen," he says, "they always try to make a fool out of me. Usually they show me when I speak English. Thus, I look like a stranger, like a tool in the hands of foreigners."
The first meeting of the Other Russia conference turned into a routine reading of reports on the situation in the country and in The Other Russia itself. On the second day, the meeting was held in a larger room. Along with delegates from many provincial cities, there were several young people who brazenly filmed the participants, as if collecting dossiers on them. Alexei Kondaurov, a former FSB general and now State Duma deputy, said: "I look at this audience and think that there are people there who seem to be watching us. Unofficially. I know, because after all, this is my job."
The composition of the conference delegates was very diverse: environmentalists, liberals, human rights activists, and most of all - the National Bolsheviks. In the language of today's Russia, the word liberal (such as Kasparov) usually means the person who speaks the most about legal rights, democratic procedure, a transparent market economy, and civil society. The neo-Bolsheviks, led by their main leader, writer and oppositionist Eduard Limonov, emphasize the importance of social rights and guarantees such as pensions and salaries. They also talk about the need to close the gap between rich and poor. The left outnumbered the Liberal Democrats at the conference, who were discredited by their failures and the failures of the 90s. "If we had free and fair elections, we would get our own version of Hamas elected in Palestine," says left-wing economist and opposition spokesman Ilya Ponomarev, "I think that with really open elections, we would get a victory for the left forces or nationalists." .
Kasparov chose to ally with the left in the name of holding real elections and creating truly democratic procedures - even with leftists like Limonov, who in the past fought for the same goals as neo-fascists and anti-Semites. "It was Garry Kasparov who introduced the concept of consensus and a united front, although our ideological differences are extremely serious," said Andrey Dmitriev, leader of the National Bolsheviks in St. Petersburg.
At best, Limonov is a dubious partner for Kasparov. In the seventies, he emigrated to the United States of America and began to imitate Charles Bukowski (Charles Bukowski), portraying himself as a kind of dissolute guy both in literature and in everyday life. In his autobiographical story "It's me, Eddie", the prevailing emotions are contempt and self-pity. He tells how he dawdled living off the American social security system and charity, how he took women to his hotel, how he despised his new compatriots (“because you live a boring life, sell yourself into slavery to work because you wear vulgar pants in a cage") and drank. Solzhenitsyn called him "a little insect who writes pornography." In middle age, Limonov transformed, began to pose as a man of action and went to Bosnia, where he befriended Radovan Karadzic, accused of war crimes. Returning to Russia in 1994, he founded the National Bolshevik Party. It is not clear how seriously it should be taken. He recommended building a gulag for Russian liberals. He was in the arms business. He began publishing an NBP newspaper called "Limonka" (a pun on his last name and the colloquial name for a hand grenade). Finally, in 2001, he was arrested for the illegal acquisition of weapons and spent more than two years in prison. After his release, Limonov toned down his rhetoric a bit, and in Kasparov's presence, he portrays a benevolent social democrat.
During a conversation during one of the breaks in work, Limonov told me: “I think this is a natural alliance. Look at the coalition against Pinochet or the situation in Russia on the eve of the revolution. There was a whole spectrum of forces - from the Bolsheviks to the bourgeois parties. Therefore, in In exceptional situations, numerous and diverse political forces naturally come together."
Kasparov believes that liberals who keep their distance from Limonov are repeating the mistakes of the early 1990s. "We need to work with the people who live here," he says. "We're not trying to win elections yet. It's just about holding elections, real elections."
Speaker after speaker took to the podium, offering their diagnosis of the Kremlin and its abuses. The army is broken. The FSB is omnipotent. Elections are a complete scam. They alternately called the economy a "kleptocracy", a "giant money laundering operation", a "cartel", a "brigade" or "Saudi Arabia without Islam".
Former political prisoner Vladimir Bukovsky delivered a calm and moving speech in which he condemned "Putin's new KGB regime." According to him, elections in Russia have once again become a fraudulent formality, individual rights have been crushed, and the "small Caucasian nation" - Chechnya - has been destroyed. "There are no citizens here, only subjects." Bukovsky reminded the audience how important it is to unite against the Kremlin. He said that during his time in a Soviet prison "we didn't believe in left and right opposition; we didn't think about people's beliefs; we all ate from the same bowl."
His speech highlighted the plight of opposition politics in today's Russia. But Bukovsky himself was not present in the hall. Although he is one of those proposed as a candidate for the presidency, Bukovsky has lived in British Cambridge since his release from the camp in 1976. And he recorded his speech on videotape, saying it in his own English garden.
Other potential candidates for the presidency had their own problems. The former head of the state banking system, Viktor Gerashchenko, has extensive experience in the country's economic sector, but he was an apparatchik. Former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov is younger and more lively than Gerashchenko. But at one time he received the nickname "Misha two percent" for the "tax" that was imposed on all transactions that passed through his office when he worked at the Ministry of Finance.
If any speaker had moral authority, it was Sergei Kovalev, a biologist and former political prisoner. Kovalyov, who is approaching eighty, walked wearily to the microphone and informed the delegates that victory in the upcoming elections was impossible "without the approval of the Kremlin."
“So what do we do?” he asked, “we need to create a critical mass. Few understand that democracy is boring and painstaking work. If there is no chance of winning elections, then the danger of participating in them lies in the fact that they become a trap , a state propaganda trick. But a real candidate can tell the truth about the regime to as many people as possible."
At the end of the meeting, Kasparov invited people from the audience to ask questions. One woman who identified herself as a reporter from an obscure business newspaper suddenly burst into tirades against Kasparov, then threw a wad of thirty-dollar bills at him and declared him an American agent. She was one of the Young Guard demonstrators. Kasparov was completely calm. "You know, I was already disappointed," he said, closing the meeting, "I thought they had completely forgotten about us."
After that, Kasparov, Limonov, and the well-known liberal economist Andrei Illarionov, who worked under Putin, left the hotel and went to the city center, to the Ekho Moskvy radio station. Kasparov and Limonov participated in a popular talk show hosted by journalist and professor Yevgenia Albats. It was a day of long speeches and internecine bickering. There was an ineradicable feeling that the opposition in Putin's Russia, if not an empty phrase, then something similar to it. One supporter, calling from provincial Orenburg, brought a smile to Kasparov's face, but admitted that their victories were only minor.
"We started out as a completely hopeless movement," he said, "but now we're in the game."
Even that was too bold a statement.
Illarionov, who was in the lobby, told me that participation in the March elections was a real disaster. The opposition will be crushed and co-opted. "Harry put all his energy and daily life into this, and I respect him very much for this," he said, "but this is a mistake, and it will lead millions of people to a dead end." He fears more than just defeat. According to him, Putin, as a tsar, reacts quite traditionally. And if they don't have real enemies, they create them. They need enemies. They cannot live without enemies. If all enemies are destroyed, they will take on the Yabloko, the Republican Party, the Union of Right Forces, the Other Russia - and destroy these enemies too. This is the natural law of dictatorship. The best that Kasparov can do in the near future is to create the very idea of an opposition within the narrow framework proposed by the state.
But over time, it became clear to Kasparov that The Other Russia was only capable of nominating a "parallel" candidate who would be nothing more than a symbolic figure. At first, Kasparov did not want to be such a candidate. But as he won successive victories in the Other Russia primary elections in the regions in August and September, his view began to change. "Looks like I have no choice," he says.
“The problem is that we don’t have enough funds and we don’t have enough time to create a powerful impulse that can overthrow the regime,” continues Kasparov, “but we want to show that the existing regime violates our basic constitutional rights. We want to take advantage of campaign to promote our ideas and also to tell the public that we are. We say that now we are not able to win, but when the regime collapses, everyone should know that we are here."
Once, on a summer evening, I took the metro to the Oktyabrskaya metro station, which I have long known, where the familiar statue of Lenin, pointing to a "bright future", still stands. Walking down Bolshaya Polyanka Street, I saw the "House on the Embankment" - a huge gray constructivist building, where in Stalin's days a significant part of the political and cultural elite of the Communist Party lived. During the purges of 1937, a third of the residents of this house were arrested and sent either to the Gulag camps or to the cemetery after being shot in the back of the head. Now, on the roof of this house, a gigantic Mercedes emblem is invitingly revolving around its axis.
A few minutes later I came to the Oktyabrsky chess club, the most popular in the city. It is located in a long basement. The club was filled with men and women of all ages, who took their places at the old chessboards. Sometimes international grandmasters come here to play. But the backbone of the players is unchanged. These are enthusiasts. Sometimes they are quite a curious sight. The plump and good-natured teacher Alexander Pachulia, who is the deputy director of the club, told me: “Usually chess players are not very attached to their main job and career growth. They are almost not interested in anything except chess. If we didn’t close at ten in the evening, people would play until ten in the morning, starving right in their chairs." The club is open all the time, except for the New Year, Orthodox Christmas and Easter.
After the collapse of the Soviet system, and with it the state-funded Soviet chess system, many players left to pursue their sports careers abroad. Pachulia says that when chess players from the former Soviet Union began to appear at international tournaments under new banners, "there was a sense of loss." Like some of the club's other residents, Pachulia recognizes Kasparov's genius as a player. But as a person and a politician, he treats him rather coldly. “I supported Kasparov when he played against Karpov in the eighties, because Kasparov was opposed to communism, and Karpov was for the Soviet system,” says Pachulia, “but now we live in a different world. If NATO includes Ukraine and Georgia, as well as other states on our borders, developing so-called democracy, it will say that you - the United States of America - are stretching your hands to our borders. Democracy? Nonsense!"
Pachulia, like most Russians, wants Putin to remain president for at least another four years. According to him, to choose someone else, let it be Putin's protégé, selected by him personally, means taking a risk, and the country cannot afford it. "Russia is a gigantic country and it needs a strong hand," he says. Politics and even Kasparov's language are too alien to people, and therefore the members of the club doubt not only his abilities as a politician, but also his devotion to the Russian state. "The West needs someone to run Russia on its behalf, and they want Kasparov to do it," says Pachulia. "The West is concerned about the power of Vladimir Putin."
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Elder Nikolai Guryanov about the Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II
« Whoever loves the Tsar and Russia loves God …
Russia will not rise until it realizes who our Tsar Nicholas was...
How they were tortured! Do not forget: ! The tsar was very sorry and loved Russia and saved her with his torments. He gave to the slaughter of the heir Alexei, the joy and consolation of his heart ...
Prayer to Tsar Nicholas is the spiritual shield of Russia. He has the great power of God against the devil's servants. Demons are terribly afraid of the King»
Elder Nikolai Guryanov
Elder Nikolai Guryanov(1909-2002): “Think about it, in Russia the Tsar is called the father-Tsar, the father ... And who else is called the father, the father? - Priest! This is how they address a clergyman, a priest. The Tsar is a personality and a spiritual person!.. There is a special beauty in the Tsar, spiritual beauty is simplicity and humility…
Whoever loves the Tsar and Russia loves God... If a person does not love the Tsar and Russia, he will never sincerely love God. It will be a sly lie...
Russia will not rise until it realizes who our Russian Tsar Nicholas was... Without true repentance, there is no true glorification of the Tsar. The Lord will not give Russia a new Tsar, until we sincerely repent for allowing the Gentiles to denigrate and ritually torture the Royal Family. There must be a spiritual awareness... The Lord will give Russia the Tsar only after deep universal repentance... Holy Russia has never died and will never die!
Tsar Nicholas did not part with the Jesus Prayer. She kept him from troubles and misfortunes. It was she, this prayer, who gave him spiritual intelligence and divine wisdom, enlightened his heart and guided, admonished what to do.
The prayer of the holy Tsar Nicholas averts the wrath of God. We must ask the Tsar that there be no war. He loves and pities Russia. If you knew how he cries for us there! He begs the Lord for everyone and for the whole world. The Tsar weeps for us, but the people do not even think about Him!… Wounds on the body of Russia do not heal from such misunderstanding and remorse. We must pray, fast and repent...
Russia must realize that without God - not to the threshold, without the Tsar - as without a father.
The people sleep, the clergy sleep. It is better to talk with a pillar than with another priest. Do not sleep, Orthodox! It is impossible to sleep spiritually and not see what is happening to everyone - with the Church and with the country. The king is praying for us and waiting for us to change...
Lord, what is this! I had to repent! And how should one repent in the Church? - Serve the Liturgy, ask, implore the Lord and all go with a prayer to repentance, confession. To say: they have sinned against the most humble and meek King. Lord, forgive and help the suffering Russian people. If people repented, they would understand that without the Tsar there is no Russia...
Tsar Nicholas is an innocent sufferer for the Russian throne, handed to him by the Lord. The Tsar is the guardian and master of Russia dear. As they tortured the Holy Chosen One, all of Russia was covered with countless crosses and suffers and suffers until he wakes up and comes to his senses.
The king left, forgiving us all, and we must ask him and the Lord for forgiveness. Tsar Father Nikolai was very, very fond of the Russian people...
God! What have they done to him! What unthinkable torments he endured from the monsters! Scary to see! Not to tell! They burned them and drank the ashes...
The monsters not only tortured the Tsar, but brought the image and likeness of Christ the Lord as a ritual sacrifice. And this is a pure, grave sin, crying out to heaven. Remember, with the Tsar they slaughtered Russia. They have satanic malice.
How they were tortured! Do not forget: The Royal Martyr saved us by his sufferings. If not for the torment of the Tsar, Russia would not exist! The tsar was very sorry and loved Russia and saved her with his torments. He gave to the slaughter of the heir Alexei, the joy and consolation of his heart.
The Tsesarevich mourns, looking at Russia... But how can one not mourn? What reproach, insults he sees against the Tsar, the Tsarina and Elder Gregory. Alexei knows his holiness like no one else. The prayer of the martyr Gregory saved the prince so many times from death, healed ... Gregory prayed for Russia, and the Lord heard him ... *
« Whoever loves the Tsar and Russia loves God"- the testament of the holy Elder Nicholas.
« Without true repentance there is no true glorification, said the Elder. “The Lord will not give Russia a Tsar until we truly repent for allowing the gentiles to be slandered and ritually tormented by the Royal Family. There must be spiritual awareness."
“Prayer to Tsar Nicholas is the spiritual shield of Russia. He has the great power of God against the devil's servants. The demons are terribly afraid of the Tsar,” said the Elder.
Batiushka gave his blessing to pray to the First Autocrat, Ivan Vasilyevich the Terrible. He forbade blaspheming, condemning, speaking impudently about any Tsar - all this is a sign of impurity of the heart. It is impossible to listen and read lies about the holy Kings and about people in general - this leads to clouding of the mind. The eye of the soul becomes cloudy and does not see the Truth. “If you hear that someone is blaspheming Tsar Ivan the Terrible, immediately ask the Lord to forgive this person. A terrible punishment for him! He can die without repentance!”
The elder left a spiritual testament: love for the Church of God, prayer for the gift of a Tsar to Russia, love for the earthly Fatherland - everything that elevates to the Heavenly Fatherland.
It is necessary to restore true loyalty in oneself and turn to God, so that the Tsar will be revealed to us, imbued with the proper church consciousness.
He blessed the prayer: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, through the prayers of the Royal Martyrs, have mercy on us sinners and save the Russian land."
To make processions with the Sacred Name of the Tsar and the entire Royal Family - for this is a great power.
The clergy should educate the people about the great Expiatory Sacrifice of the Tsar, be sure to commemorate it at all holidays.
Expiatory Sacrifice of the King
« The sacrifice of Tsar Nicholas—complete co-crucifixion with Christ, Sacrifice for Holy Russia". It is necessary to comprehend the greatness of the Tsar's Sacrifice, it is exclusive to the Russian Church. The great Elder of the Russian Land Nikolai constantly wept and prayed for forgiveness about this Sacrifice, and the Lord revealed to the priest that He had mercy on Russia, had already had mercy, and the Russian people were forgiven - for the Redemptive Golgotha of the Holy Tsar ...
« The Holy King did not renounce, there is no sin of renunciation on Him. He acted like a true Christian, a humble Anointed of God. He needs to bow at the feet for His mercy to us sinners. He didn't deny, they rejected him».
“The sword of a terrible war constantly hangs over Russia, and only the prayer of the Holy Tsar Nicholas takes away the wrath of God from us. We must ask the Tsar that there be no war. He loves and pities Russia. If you only knew how He is there crying for us!”
The Blessed Elder spoke of what he saw with the eyes of a soul purified by suffering. The angelic world, the world of dark spirits, was clearly seen by his eye. It was unbearably painful to hear the revelations of the Elder about the bloody torments of the Royal Angels: he said that the Children were tortured in front of the numb holy Sufferers, the Royal Servant was especially tortured ... The Queen did not utter a word. The sovereign became all white. The father cried: “Lord! What have they done with them all! Worse than any pain! Angels couldn't see! The angels wept what they were doing to Them! The earth sobbed and trembled... There was darkness... They tortured, cut them with terrible axes and burned them, and drank the ashes... With tea... They drank and laughed... And they suffered themselves. The names of those who did this are not open… We don’t know them… They didn’t love and don’t love Russia, they have satanic malice… Accursed Jews… After all, they drank Their Holy Blood… They drank and were afraid to be sanctified: after all, the Royal Blood is Holy… We must pray to the Holy Sufferer, cry, beg to forgive everyone… We don’t know their names… But the Lord knows everything!” (01/25/2000)
Elder Nicholas about the Honest Tsar's Heads: “They were truncated, not only the Tsar, but all the Martyrs, and taken away ... At one time they were in the Kremlin. God knows, maybe even in the mausoleum... They did such things over them that God forbid and speak! Flour! Iniquity! Cursed satanic mockery… It is better to keep silent and cry about it… Devilish dances.”
“In every sorrow, misfortune or joy, sing the Akathist to Jesus the Sweetest, the Savior of the world. He will protect your soul and instill in it the joy and hope of salvation. If you knew how the Lord loves everyone, you would never despair or sin.” **
*According to the book: "Life, prophecies, akathists and canons to the holy royal martyrs." Russia Autocratic, 2005
Forgive us, Sovereign!