Light-bearing Moscow
Ecclesiastical Moscow in the time of His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon
Illustrations and maps
color illustrations
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The book is dedicated to church life in Moscow at the beginning of the 20th century. The author tells about the reasons for the collapse of the Russian Empire, about the Local Council of the Orthodox Russian Church of 1917-1918, about the election of St. Tikhon as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and his ministry, about the religious policy of the Soviet government, about the Renovationist schism, about the standing in the faith of Orthodox Christians and the spiritual lights of the capital — pravda. Alexy Moskovsky, sschmch. St. Sergius Mecheva, St. Peter the Great. Aristoklia (Amvrosiev), ssmch. To John Rapture and others. The book is based on documents, memoirs, excerpts from diaries.
