The writer Andrea Tarabbia reconstructs the history of relations between the Orthodox Church and the Kremlin, between patriarchs and tsars or dictators, starting from some ecclesiastical buildings
After the American empire, the Russian one. The second episode of the Imperi audio series, part of the Accademia di Solferino libri project and available from today for time.news subscribers, talks about the fateful relationship between power and religion in Russia.
To tell the writer Andrew Tarabbiawhich to reconstruct the history of relations between the Orthodox Church and the Kremlinamong the patriarchs and the tsars or the dictators, has chosen some ecclesiastical buildings whose history, sometimes troubled and at other times absurd, says a lot about a country that has always considered itself a saint and attributes itself the mission of redeem the sins of the world.
(Below the trailer, here the complete series)
There is the Cathedral of Christ the Saviorin Moscow, the largest Orthodox church in the world which has experienced various vicissitudes: it was demolished by the Soviets to build a palace of the Soviet so titanic that the materials were not enough; so, after the Second World War, it was transformed into a gigantic heated outdoor swimming pool. Today, rebuilt as it was, the seat of the Orthodox patriarchate.
In Kubinka, a town 70 km east of Moscow, there is instead Armed Forces Church; a black building literally built with war materials: tracks, military vehicles, weapons abandoned on Russian soil by the fleeing Nazis. These, and many others, are the places of a story to listen to. To understand.
April 14, 2023 (change April 14, 2023 | 08:53 am)
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