Scientists themselves, futurologists, various modern psychics and even ordinary people are already trying to predict the future in our time. But what did the holy elders predict about Russia in the distant past and to our present time. Let's take a look at their statements below:
Rev. Seraphim of Sarov, 1825-32
“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 twice two makes four, and without fail, as 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 nations, Constantinople and Jerusalem will be filled. When Turkey is divided, almost all of it will remain with Russia ... "
Saint Theophan the Recluse, 1890s
“How many signs the Lord showed over Russia, delivering her from the strongest enemies and subjugating her nations! And yet, evil is growing. Shall we not come to our senses?
The West has punished and will punish us, the Lord, but we are not taken into account. We got stuck in the mud of the western up to our ears, and all is well. There are eyes, but we don’t see, there are ears, but we don’t hear, and we don’t understand with our hearts ... Having inhaled this infernal fumes, we are spinning like crazy, not remembering ourselves. If we don't come to our senses, the Lord will send us foreign teachers to bring us to our senses... It turns out that we, too, are on the path of revolution. These are not empty words, but a deed affirmed by the voice of the Church. Know, Orthodox, that God cannot be mocked.”
Saint Seraphim of Vyritsky, early 20th century
“The time will come when no persecution, but the money and charms of this world will turn people away from God and many more souls will perish than in times of open rebellion. On the one hand, crosses will be erected and domes gilded, and on the other, the kingdom of lies and evil will come. The true Church will always be persecuted, and it will be possible to be saved only by sorrows and illnesses. Persecution will take the most unpredictable and sophisticated character. But the salvation of the world is from Russia.”
Schieeromonk Aristokliy Athos. 1917-18 years
“Now we are living through the pre-Tichrist time. The judgment of God over the living has begun and there will not be a single country on earth, not a single person who will not be touched by this. It began with Russia, and then further... And Russia will be saved. A lot of suffering, a lot of torment... All of Russia will become a prison, and you have to beg the Lord for forgiveness a lot. Repent of sins and be afraid to commit even the slightest sins, but try to do good, even the smallest. After all, even the wing of a fly has weight, but God has accurate scales. And when the smallest thing outweighs the good on the cup, then God will show His mercy over Russia ...
The end will be through China. There will be some unusual explosion, and a miracle of God will appear. And there will be a completely different life on earth, but not for a very long time. The Cross of Christ will shine over the whole world, because our Motherland will be exalted and will be like a beacon in the darkness for everyone.”
Bishop John of Shanghai, 1938
Shake off the sleep of despondency and laziness, sons of Russia! Behold the glory of her suffering and be cleansed, washed from your sins! Strengthen yourself in the Orthodox faith in order to be worthy to dwell in the habitation of the Lord and to dwell in the holy mountain. Rise, rise, rise, Russia, you who drank the cup of His wrath from the hand of the Lord! When your suffering is over, your righteousness will go with you, and the glory of the Lord will accompany you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the radiance that rises above you. Then lift up your eyes around you and see: behold, your children will come to you from the west, and the north, and the sea, and the east, blessing Christ in you forever!
Reverend Anatoly of Optina, early 20th century
“There will be a storm. And the Russian ship will be broken. But after all, even on chips and debris, people are saved. And yet, not everyone will die. We must pray, we must all repent and pray fervently... A great miracle of God will be revealed... And all the chips and fragments, by the will of God and His power, will gather and unite, and the ship will be recreated in all its glory and will go its own way, intended by God ... "
Saint Theophan of Poltava, 1930
“The monarchy, autocratic power will be restored in Russia. The Lord has chosen the future king. This will be a man of fiery faith, a brilliant mind and an iron will. He will first of all restore order in the Orthodox Church, removing all false, heretical and lukewarm bishops. And many, very many, with few exceptions, almost all will be eliminated, and new, true, unshakable bishops will take their place ... Something that no one expects will happen. Russia will rise from the dead, and the whole world will be surprised. Orthodoxy will be reborn and triumph in it. But the Orthodoxy that was before will no longer be. God Himself will put a strong king on the throne.
Paisius Svyatogorets, Athos elder. 1990s
“My thought tells me that many events will happen: the Russians will occupy Turkey, Turkey will disappear from the map, because a third of the Turks will become Christians, a third will die in the war and a third will go to Mesopotamia ... A great war will take place in Constantinople between Russians and Europeans, and a lot of blood. Greece will not play a leading role in this war, but Constantinople will be given to it. Not because the Russians will be in awe of the Greeks, but because they won’t be able to find a better solution ... The Greek army will not have time to get there, as the city will be given to it.”
Joseph, Elder of Athos, Vatopedi Monastery. year 2001
“Now is the beginning of events, difficult military events ... The devil will force the Turks to still come here to Greece and begin their actions. And Greece, although it has a government, but as such, in fact, it does not exist, as it were, because it has no power. And the Turks will come here. This will be the moment when Russia, too, will move its forces to push back the Turks. Events will develop as follows: when Russia goes to the aid of Greece, the Americans and NATO will try to prevent this, so that there is no reunification, a merger of the two Orthodox peoples ... On the territory of the former Byzantine Empire there will be a big fight. Only the dead will be about 600 million people. The Vatican will also actively participate in all this in order to prevent the reunification and the growth of the role of Orthodoxy. But this will result in the complete destruction of the Vatican influence, to the very foundation. This is how the Providence of God will turn… There will be God’s permission to destroy those who sow temptations: pornography, drug addiction, etc. And the Lord will blind their minds so much that they will destroy each other with gluttony. The Lord will allow it on purpose to do a big purge. As for the one who rules the country, he will not last long, and what is happening now will not be long, and then immediately the war. But after this great purge, there will be a revival of Orthodoxy not only in Russia, but throughout the world, a great upsurge of Orthodoxy.”
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The prophecy of the elder monk-schemnik John, who labored in the Church of St. Nicholas the Pleasant in the village of Nikolskoye (Yaroslavl region, Uglich district) of the Yaroslavl diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church:
“In April, when the “bald man” is taken out of the Mausoleum, Moscow will fall into salty waters and little will remain of Moscow. Sinners will swim in salt water for a long time, but there will be no one to save them. They will all die. Therefore, for those of you who work in Moscow, I recommend working there until April.
Astrakhan and Voronezh regions will be flooded. Leningrad will be flooded. The city of Zhukovsky (Moscow region, 30 km from the capital) will be partially destroyed.
The Lord wanted to do this back in 1999, but the Mother of God begged him to give more time. Now there is no time at all. Only those who leave the cities (Moscow, Leningrad) to live in the countryside will have a chance to survive. It is not worth starting to build houses in the villages, there is no time left, you will not have time. It is better to buy a finished house. There will be a big famine. There will be no electricity, no water, no gas. Only those who grow their own food will have a chance to survive.
China will go to war against us with a 200 million army and occupy all of Siberia to the Urals. The Japanese will be in charge in the Far East. Russia will be torn apart. A terrible war will begin. Russia will remain within the borders of the times of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. Will come Reverend Seraphim Sarovskiy. He will unite all the Slavic peoples and states and bring the Tsar with him ... There will be such a famine that those who have accepted the "seal of the Antichrist" will eat the dead. And most importantly - pray and hurry up to change your life so as not to live in sin, since there is no time left at all ... ".
Prediction of Archpriest Vladislav Shumov from the village of Obukhovo, Solnechnogorsk district, Moscow region (October 1, 1996):
The earthquake in Moscow will be big. Six hills in Moscow will turn into one...
Father Vladislav warned the Russian people about the many dangers awaiting everyone on the path to God:
- Yes, there will still be persecution of the Orthodox Faith! ..
- In Russia, the communists will still come to power ...
Father Vladislav also predicted future events in world history:
- Japan and America will go under water together.
- The whole of Australia will also be flooded.
The ocean will flood America all the way to Alaska. The same Alaska that will be ours again...
- The southern half of China will be flooded by the waters of the Indian Ocean. And then the Chinese will reach the city of Chelyabinsk. Russia will unite with the Mongols and drive them back.
- When China goes to us, then there will be a war. But after the Chinese conquer the city of Chelyabinsk, the Lord will convert them to Orthodoxy...”.
Elder Vissarion (Optina Pustyn):
“Something like a coup d'état will happen in Russia. In the same year, the Chinese will attack. They will reach the Urals. Then there will be a unification of Russians according to the Orthodox principle ... ".
The prophecy of Evdokia Chudinovskaya (1870-1948) from the village of Chudinovo (Chelyabinsk region), which the people affectionately called "Blessed Dunyushka".
“Soon the Chinese will drink tea in Chelyabinsk, yes, yes, they will drink tea. Today you have icons, but you will live to the point that you wall up one icon in the entrance hall, and you will secretly pray for it. Because there will be large taxes for each icon, but there will be nothing to pay.
And you will live to the point that all of you believers will be sent to the North, you will pray and feed on fish, and whoever they don’t send, stock up on kerosene and lamps, for there will be no light. Gather three or four families in one house and live together, it is impossible to survive alone. You get a piece of bread, climb into the cellar and eat. If you don’t climb in, they’ll take it away, or else they’ll kill you for this piece.”
Blessed Evdokia told people: “Tell your people so that, going to bed, they forgive everyone’s offenses, because if you lie down under one authority, and get up under another, everything will happen at night. You will fall asleep in your bed, and wake up beyond the edge of life, where every unforgiven offense will fall like a heavy stone on your soul.
From the memoirs of Evdokia: “Once Dunyushka sat, sat, seemed to be sleeping, and then she went to the cradle with the baby and, as if pricking him with a spindle: “That's how it will be.”
Why are you like that, Dunyushka? - we ask her.
I'm not him, I'm all of them like that - and showed how all Russian children will be killed with bayonets.
When you are led to torment, do not be afraid. A quick death is better than slavery, the blessed one warned.
The blessed one was asked: “When will this be, mother?”
“At first churches will open, and there will be no one to go to them, then they will build a lot of magnificent houses with decorations, but soon there will be no one to live in them, the Chinese will come, they will drive everyone out into the street, then we will get drunk to our heart's content. When that will be is a mystery. A man told me that at the end of the world there will be two Paschas. Right and wrong. The priesthood will correct the wrong, and the war will begin.
Prediction of Blessed Nicholas of Ural (1905-1977):
“Everyone here is afraid of the West, but we must be afraid of China ... When the last Orthodox Patriarch is overthrown, China will go to southern lands. And the whole world will be silent. And no one will hear how the Orthodox will be exterminated. In severe cold, women, old people, children will be driven out into the streets, and Chinese soldiers will settle in warm houses. No one can survive that terrible winter. Everyone will drink one cup of death to the bottom. Europe will be neutral towards China. She will see China as a kind of antediluvian giant creature, isolated and reliably protected from any enemy by the Siberian and Central Asian expanses. Chinese armies will march to the Caspian Sea. Millions of Chinese settlers will follow the Chinese soldiers, and no one will be able to stop them. All indigenous people will be conquered and doomed to extinction.”
Prophecies of Father Anthony (Chelyabinsk diocese):
“First of all, all kinds of technical catastrophes - the system of existence created by man, in fact, satanic, because it absolutely contradicts the laws of God, will begin to break down. Planes will fall, ships will sink, explode Atom stations, chemical plants. And all this will be against the backdrop of terrible natural phenomena that will occur throughout the earth, but especially strongly - in America. These are hurricanes of unprecedented strength, earthquakes, severe droughts and, conversely, flood-like downpours... Cities will be a terrifying sight.
Even those that avoid total destruction, deprived of water and electricity, heat and food supply, they will resemble huge stone coffins, so many people will die. Gangs of bandits will endlessly commit their atrocities, even during the day it will be dangerous to move in the city, but at night people will gather in large groups in order to try to live together until morning. Sunrise, alas, will herald not the joy of a new day, but the grief of the need to live this day ...
China will overwhelm most Russia ..., all the lands beyond the mountains and after them will be yellow. Only the power of the faithful Andrei, his great descendant Alexander and the closest shoots from their root will be preserved. What stands, will stand. But even this does not mean that the Russian Orthodox state will be preserved within the limits of the rule of the Antichrist, no. The name may remain, but the way of life will no longer be Great Russian, not Orthodox. Nothing like Russian beginning will dominate the life of the Orthodox inhabitants in the past.
The yellow invasion is not the only one. There will be a black invasion - hungry, amazed incurable diseases Africans will fill our cities and villages. And it will be much, much worse than what is happening now from the dominance of people from the Caucasus, Central Asia... Although these will not leave you with their attention - their number will grow. They will willingly accept everything that is offered to them for lentil soup: they will enter the united "church", they will accept the Antichrist ...
Schema-Archimandrite Seraphim (Tyapochkin) from the village of Rakitnoye describes the future development of events in Russia in this way (1977):
“The biggest tragedy will be the capture of Siberia by China. This will not happen by military means: due to the weakening of power and open borders, the Chinese will begin to move to Siberia in droves, buying up real estate, enterprises, and apartments. Through bribery, intimidation, agreements with those in power, they will gradually subjugate the economic life of cities. Everything will happen in such a way that in one morning the Russian people living in Siberia will wake up ... in the Chinese state. The fate of those who remain there will be tragic, but not hopeless. The Chinese will brutally crack down on any attempts at resistance.
The West will promote this creeping conquest of our land and support China's military and economic power in every possible way out of hatred for Russia. But then they will see the danger for themselves, and when the Chinese try to seize the Urals by military force and move on, they will prevent this by all means and can even help Russia in repelling the invasion from the East. Russia must endure in this battle, after suffering and complete impoverishment, she will find the strength to rise in herself ... ".
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"THIS WILL BE A STORM..."
THREE FURIOUS YOGAS. EVIL IS GROWING...
“About the fate of the Russian state, in prayer, there was a revelation to me about three fierce yokes: the Tatar, the Polish, and the future one - the Jew. The Jew will scour the Russian land like a scorpion, rob its shrines, close the churches of God, execute the best people Russians. This is the permission of God, the wrath of the Lord for Russia's renunciation of the holy Tsar.
But then the Russian hopes will come true. On Sophia, in 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.
Monk-seer Abel, 1796
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“There will be a tsar who will glorify me, after which there will be a great turmoil in Russia, a lot of blood will flow for rebelling against this tsar and the autocracy, but God will glorify the tsar ...
Before the birth of the Antichrist, there will be a great long war and a terrible revolution in Russia, exceeding any human imagination, for the bloodshed will be the most terrible. There will be the death of many people loyal to the fatherland, the looting of church property and monasteries; desecration of the churches of the Lord; destruction and plunder of the wealth of good people, rivers of Russian blood will be shed. But the Lord will have mercy on Russia and lead her through suffering to great glory ... "
“I, a wretched Seraphim, from the Lord God are supposed to live much more than a hundred years. But since by that time the Russian hierarchs have become so ungodly that their wickedness will surpass the Greek hierarchs during the time of Theodosius the Younger, so that even the most important dogma of Christ's Faith - the Resurrection of Christ and the general resurrection will not be believed, then therefore the Lord God is pleased until the time of me, the wretched Seraphim, from sowing untimely life to take and then to resurrect the dogma of the Resurrection, and my resurrection will be like the resurrection of the seven youths in the cave of Okhlonskaya during the time of Theodosius the Youngest. After my resurrection, I will move from Sarov to Diveevo, where I will preach universal repentance.
“To me, a wretched Seraphim, the Lord revealed that there would be great disasters on the Russian land. The Orthodox faith will be trampled on, the bishops of the Church of God and other clerics will depart from the purity of Orthodoxy, and for this the Lord will severely punish them. I, poor Seraphim, for three days and three nights prayed to the Lord that he would better deprive me of the Kingdom of Heaven, and have mercy on them. But the Lord answered: “I will not have mercy on them: for they teach the doctrines of men, and with their tongue they honor Me, but their heart is far from Me”…
Any desire to change the rules and teachings of the Holy Church is heresy ... blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, which will never be forgiven. The bishops of the Russian land and the clergy will follow this path, and the wrath of God will strike them ... "
“But the Lord will not be completely angry and will not allow the Russian land to be destroyed to the end, because in it alone Orthodoxy and the remnants of Christian piety are predominantly preserved ... We have the Orthodox faith, the Church, which has no vice. For the sake of these virtues, Russia will always be glorious and fearful and irresistible to enemies, having faith and piety - the gates of hell will not overcome these.
“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 twice two makes four, and without fail, as 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 With the division of Turkey, almost all of it will remain with Russia ... "
Venerable Seraphim of Sarov, 1825-32
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“European peoples have always envied Russia and tried to harm her. Naturally, they will follow the same system for future centuries. But the Russian God is great. We must pray to the great God that He preserve the spiritual and moral strength of our people - the Orthodox faith ... Judging by the spirit of the times and the ferment of minds, it must be assumed that the building of the Church, which has been shaking for a long time, will shake terribly and quickly. There is no one to stop and resist ...
The current retreat is allowed by God: do not try to stop it with your weak hand. Remove yourself, protect yourself from it: and that is enough for you. Familiarize yourself with the spirit of the times, study it in order to avoid its influence as far as possible...
Constant reverence for the destinies of God is necessary for proper spiritual living. Into this reverence and obedience to God one must lead oneself by faith. The Providence of Almighty God vigilantly watches over the destinies of the world and every person, and everything that happens is done either by the will or by the permission of God...
No one will change the predestinations of the Providence of God about Russia. Holy Fathers Orthodox Church(for example, St. Andrew of Crete in the interpretation of the Apocalypse, chapter 20) predict Russia's extraordinary civil development and power ... And our disasters should be more moral and spiritual.
Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov, 1865
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“If in Russia, for the sake of contempt of the Commandments of God and for the sake of weakening the rules and regulations of the Orthodox Church, and for other reasons, piety becomes impoverished, then the final fulfillment of what is said in the Apocalypse of John the Theologian must inevitably follow”
Rev. Ambrose of Optina, 1871
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"Modern Russian society turned into a mental wilderness. serious attitude to thought has disappeared, every living source of inspiration has dried up... The most extreme conclusions of the most one-sided Western thinkers are boldly presented as the last word of enlightenment...
How many signs the Lord showed over Russia, delivering her from the strongest enemies and subjugating her nations! And yet, evil is growing. Shall we not come to our senses? The West has punished us, and the Lord will punish us, but we are not taken into account. We got stuck in the mud of the western up to our ears, and all is well. There are eyes, but we don’t see, there are ears, but we don’t hear, and we don’t understand with our hearts ... Having inhaled this hellish fumes into ourselves, we are spinning like crazy, not remembering ourselves.
“If we don’t come to our senses, the Lord will send us foreign teachers to bring us to our senses ... It turns out that we are on the path of revolution. These are not empty words, but a deed affirmed by the voice of the Church. Know, Orthodox, that God cannot be mocked.”
“Evil is growing, malevolence and unbelief are raising their heads, faith and Orthodoxy are weakening… Well, should we sit back? Not! Silent shepherding - what kind of shepherd? We need hot books, defensive against all evils. It is necessary to dress up hacks and oblige them to write... It is necessary to stop the freedom of ideas... To declare disbelief a state crime. Prohibit material views on pain of death!”
Saint Theophan the Recluse, 1894
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“The Mother of God saved Russia many times. If Russia has stood until now, it is only thanks to the Queen of Heaven. And now what a difficult time we are going through! Now the universities are filled with Jews, Poles, and there is no place for Russians! How can the Queen of Heaven help such people? What have we come to!
Our intelligentsia is simply stupid. Ignorant, stupid people! Russia, represented by the intelligentsia and part of the people, became unfaithful to the Lord, forgot all His blessings, fell away from him, became worse than any foreign, even pagan people. You forgot God and left Him, and He left you to His paternal providence and gave you into the hands of unbridled, wild arbitrariness. Christians who do not believe in God, who act together with the Jews, who do not care what faith: with the Jews they are Jews, with the Poles they are Poles - those are not Christians, and will perish if they do not repent ... "
“Shepherd rulers, what have you made of your flock? The Lord will seek His sheep at Your hands!.. He primarily oversees the behavior of bishops and priests, their educational, clerical, pastoral activities... The current terrible decline in faith and morals depends very much on the coldness towards their flocks of many hierarchs and the priestly rank in general.
“How many enemies our Fatherland has now! Our enemies, you know who: the Jews... May the Lord end our misfortunes, by His great mercy! And you, friends, stand firmly for the Tsar, honor, love him, love the Holy Church and the Fatherland, and remember that autocracy is the only condition for the prosperity of Russia; there will be no Autocracy - there will be no Russia; the Jews who hate us so much will take power!”
“But All-good Providence will not leave Russia in this sad and disastrous state. It righteously punishes and leads to rebirth. God's righteous destinies are being committed over Russia. She is forged by misfortunes and misfortunes. It is not in vain that He who rules over all nations skillfully, aptly places on His anvil those who are subjected to His strong hammer. Brace yourself, Russia! But repent, pray, cry bitter tears before your heavenly Father, whom you have immensely angered! crucible.
But do not be afraid and do not be afraid, brethren, let the seditious Satanists console themselves for a moment with their hellish successes: judgment from God will not touch them, and death will not sleep from them (2 Peter 2.3). The right hand of the Lord will find all those who hate us and righteously avenge us. Therefore, let us not give in to despondency, seeing everything that is now happening in the world ... "
“I foresee the restoration of a powerful Russia, even stronger and more powerful. On the bones of the martyrs, as on a strong foundation, a new Russia will be erected - according to the old model; strong in your faith in Christ God and in the Holy Trinity! And it will be according to the testament of the Holy Prince Vladimir - as a single Church! The Russian people have ceased to understand what Russia is: it is the foot of the Throne of the Lord! A Russian person should understand this and thank God for being Russian.”
Holy Righteous Father John of Kronstadt. 1906–1908
EVERYONE GOES AGAINST RUSSIA.
“The persecution and torment of the first Christians may be repeated ... Hell is destroyed, but not destroyed, and the time will come when it will make itself felt. This time is not far off...
We will live to terrible times, but the grace of God will cover us... The Antichrist is clearly coming into the world, but this is not recognized in the world. The whole world is under the influence of some kind of force that takes possession of the mind, will and all spiritual qualities of a person. It's an outside force evil force. Its source is the devil, and evil people are only an instrument through which it operates. These are the forerunners of the Antichrist.
In the Church we don't have living prophets now, but there are signs. They are given to us for the knowledge of times. They are clearly visible to people who have a spiritual mind. But this is not recognized in the world ... Everyone goes against Russia, that is, against the Church of Christ, for the Russian people are God-bearers, they keep true faith Christ's."
Venerable Barsanuphius of Optina, 1910
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“Heresies will spread everywhere and deceive many. The enemy of the human race will act by cunning, in order, if possible, to incline even the elect to heresy. He will not rudely reject the dogmas of the Holy Trinity, the Divinity of Jesus Christ and the dignity of the Mother of God, but will imperceptibly distort the teachings of the Church transmitted by the Holy Fathers from the Holy Spirit, and his very spirit and statutes, and these tricks of the enemy will be noticed only by a few, the most skillful in spiritual life. .
Heretics will take power over the Church, they will place their servants everywhere, and piety will be neglected... Therefore, my son, as you see the violations of the Divine order in the Church, patristic tradition and the order established by God, know that heretics have already appeared, although they may be, and they will hide their ungodliness until the time comes, or they will imperceptibly distort the Divine faith in order to succeed even more, deceiving and luring the inexperienced into the network.
There will be persecution not only against pastors, but also against all the servants of God, for the demon who leads heresy does not tolerate piety. Recognize them, these wolves in sheepskin, by their proud disposition and lust for power ...
Woe will be in those days to the monks who have committed themselves to property and wealth and are ready to submit to heretics for the love of peace... Do not be afraid of sorrow, but be afraid of pernicious heresy, for it exposes from grace and separates from Christ...
There will be a storm. And the Russian ship will be broken. But after all, even on chips and debris, people are saved. And yet, not everyone will die. We must pray, we must all repent and pray fervently... A great miracle of God will be revealed... And all the chips and fragments, by the will of God and His power, will gather and unite, and the ship will be recreated in all its glory and will go its own way, God intended. .."
Reverend Anatoly of Optina. 1917
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“Now we are living through the pre-Tichrist time. The judgment of God over the living has begun and there will not be a single country on earth, not a single person who will not be touched by this. It started with Russia, and then further ...
And Russia will be saved. Lots of pain, lots of pain. It is necessary to suffer much and much and to repent deeply for everyone. Only repentance through suffering will save Russia. All of Russia will become a prison, and one must beg the Lord for forgiveness a lot. Repent of sins and be afraid to commit even the slightest sins, but try to do good, even the smallest. After all, even the wing of a fly has weight, but God has accurate scales. And when the smallest thing outweighs goodness in the cup, then God will show His mercy over Russia ...
But first, God will take away all the leaders so that the Russian people look only at Him. Everyone will abandon Russia, other powers will abandon it, leaving it to itself. This is so that the Russian people trust in the help of the Lord. Hear that in other countries unrest will begin and similar to that in Russia (during the revolution - ed.), And you will hear about wars and there will be wars - now, the time is near. But don't be afraid of anything. The Lord will show His wonderful mercy.
The end will be through China. There will be some unusual explosion, and a miracle of God will appear. And there will be a completely different life on earth, but not for a very long time. The Cross of Christ will shine over the whole world, because our Motherland will be exalted and will be like a beacon in the darkness for everyone.”
Schieeromonk Aristokliy Athos. 1917-18
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“Russia will rise up and will not be materially rich, but rich in spirit, and in Optina there will be 7 more lamps, 7 pillars. If even a few faithful Orthodox remain in Russia, God will have mercy on her. And we have such righteous people.”
Venerable Nektarios of Optina, 1920
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“You ask me about the near future and about the coming end times. I do not speak about this from myself, but what was revealed to me by the elders. The coming of the Antichrist is approaching and is already very close. The time separating us from his coming can be measured in years, at most in decades. But before his arrival, Russia must be reborn, albeit for a short time. And the king there will be chosen by the Lord Himself. And he will be a man of ardent faith, deep mind and iron will. This is what was revealed to us about him, we will wait for the fulfillment of this revelation. Judging by many signs, it is coming; except that because of our sins, the Lord will cancel it and change His promise.”
“The monarchy, autocratic power will be restored in Russia. The Lord has chosen the future king. This will be a man of fiery faith, a brilliant mind and an iron will. 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 will be eliminated, and new, true, unshakable bishops will take their place... Something that no one expects will happen. Russia will rise from the dead, and the whole world will be surprised.
Orthodoxy will be reborn and triumph in it. But the Orthodoxy that was before will no longer be. God Himself will put a strong king on the throne.
Saint Theophan of Poltava, 1930
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A thunderstorm will pass over the Russian Land.
The Lord will forgive the Russian people their sins
And the Holy Cross of divine beauty
On God's temples will shine again.
Monasteries everywhere will be reopened
And faith in God will unite everyone
And the bell ringing of all our Holy Russia
From sinful sleep to salvation will awaken.
Dangerous hardships subside
Russia will defeat its enemies.
And the name of the Russian, great people
Like thunder throughout the universe will rumble!
Rev. Seraphim Vyritsky, 1943
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“Russian people will repent of mortal sins that they allowed Jewish wickedness in Russia, did not protect the Anointed of God - the king, Orthodox churches and monasteries, a host of martyrs and confessors of saints and all Russian saints. They despised piety and loved demonic wickedness...
When a little freedom appears, churches will be opened, monasteries will be repaired, then all false teachings will come out. In Ukraine, they will strongly take up arms against the Russian Church, its unity and catholicity. This heretical group will be supported by a godless power. The Metropolitan of Kyiv, who is not worthy of this title, will greatly shake the Russian Church, and he himself will go into eternal perdition, like Judas. But all these slanders of the evil one in Russia will disappear, and there will be a One Orthodox Russian Church ...
Russia, together with all the Slavic peoples and lands, will constitute a mighty kingdom. He will be nourished by the Orthodox Tsar - God's Anointed One. All schisms and heresies will disappear in Russia. Jews from Russia will leave to meet the Antichrist in Palestine, and there will not be a single Jew in Russia. There will be no persecution of the Orthodox Church.
The Lord will have mercy on Holy Russia because it had a terrible and terrible time before Antichrist. A great regiment of confessors and martyrs shone forth… All of them implore the Lord God, the King of Powers, Holy Trinity glorified Father and Son and Holy Spirit. You need to know for sure that Russia is the lot of the Queen of Heaven and she cares about her and intercedes purely for her. The whole host of Russian saints with the Mother of God are asked to spare Russia.
In Russia there will be a flourishing of faith and the former rejoicing (only for a short time, for the Terrible Judge will come to judge the living and the dead). Even the Antichrist himself will be afraid of the Russian Orthodox Tsar. Under the Antichrist, Russia will be the most powerful kingdom in the world. And all the other countries, except Russia and the Slavic lands, will be under the rule of the Antichrist and will experience all the horrors and torments written in the Holy Scriptures
The Third World War will no longer be for repentance, but for extermination. Where it passes, there will be no people. There will be such strong bombs that iron will burn, stones will melt. Fire and smoke with dust will reach the sky. And the earth will burn. They will fight and two or three states will remain. There will be very few people left and then they will start shouting: Down with the war! Let's choose one! Install one king! They will choose a king who will be born of a prodigal virgin of the twelfth generation. And the Antichrist will sit on the throne in Jerusalem.”
Rev. Lawrence of Chernigov. Late 1940s
RUSSIA WAITS FOR GOD!
In 1959, the journal of the Canadian branch of the Orthodox Brotherhood of St. Job of Pochaevsky's "Orthodox Review" published a vision of an elder, told by him to Bishop Vitaly (Ustinov) of Canada, who later became Metropolitan of ROCOR. This old man in a thin dream saw the Lord, who said to him:
“Behold, I will glorify Orthodoxy in the Russian land, and from there it will shine on the whole world ... The Commune will disappear and scatter like dust from the wind. It is allowed to make in Russia one people with one heart and one soul. Having cleansed it with fire, I will make it My people... Behold, I will stretch out My right hand and Orthodoxy from Russia will shine on the whole world. The time will come when the children there will carry stones on their shoulders to build temples. My hand is strong and there is no such power either in heaven or on earth that would resist it.
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In 1992, the book “The Last Destinies of Russia and the World. Brief review of prophecies and predictions. In particular, it contains the following prediction made in a conversation by one of the modern elders in September 1990: “The last days of the West, its wealth, its depravity, have approached. Sudden disaster and ruin will befall him. His wealth is unrighteous, evil, oppresses the whole world, and his debauchery is like the depravity of a new and worse Sodom. Its science and technology are the madness of the new, second Babylon. His pride is apostate, satanic pride. All his deeds are for the needs of the Antichrist. He was possessed by "the assembly of Satan" (Ap. 2.9).
God's fiery wrath on the West, on her Babylon! And you raise your heads and rejoice, sufferers of God and all the good, the humble, who endured evil in their hope in God! Rejoice, long-suffering Orthodox people, the stronghold of the East of God, who suffered according to the will of God for the whole world. To you, for the sake of those chosen in you, God will give strength to fulfill the great and final promise of the Son of his Only Begotten Beloved about the last preaching of His Gospel in the world before the end of the world, as a testimony to all peoples!
The arrogance and gloating of the West about the present disasters of Russia will turn even greater wrath of God on the West. After “perestroika” in Russia, “perestroika” will begin in the West as well, and an unprecedented strife will open there: civil strife, famine, unrest, the fall of power, collapse, anarchy, pestilence, famine, cannibalism - unprecedented horrors of evil and depravity accumulated in the souls. The Lord will give them to reap what they sowed for many centuries and by which they oppressed and corrupted the whole world. And all their wickedness will rise up against them.
Russia withstood its temptation, for it had within itself the faith of martyrdom, the mercy of God and His election. But the West does not have this and therefore will not stand it ...
Russia is waiting for God!
The Russian people need only a leader, a shepherd - a Tsar chosen by God. And he will go with him to any feat! Only the Anointed One of God will give the highest and strongest unity to the Russian people!”
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Archbishop Seraphim of Chicago and Detroit (1959): “The Lord recently, during my first pilgrimage to Palestine, honored me, a sinner, to get acquainted with some new, hitherto unknown prophecies that are thrown New World on the fate of Russia. These prophecies were accidentally discovered by a learned Russian monk in ancient Greek manuscripts kept in an ancient Greek monastery.
Unknown Holy Fathers of the 8th and 9th centuries, that is, contemporaries of St. John of Damascus, in such, approximately, words, these prophecies captured: “After the God-chosen Jewish people, having betrayed their Messiah and Redeemer to torment and shameful death, lost their chosenness, the latter passed to the Hellenes, who became the second God-chosen people.
The great Eastern Fathers of the Church honed Christian dogmas and created a coherent system Christian doctrine. This is the great merit of the Greek people. However, to build a harmonious social and state life on this solid Christian foundation, the Byzantine statehood lacks creative forces and opportunities. The scepter of the Orthodox Kingdom falls from the weakening hands of the Byzantine emperors, who failed to realize the symphony of Church and State.
Therefore, to replace the decrepit spiritually chosen Greek people, the Lord Provider will send a third God-chosen people. This people will appear in the North in a hundred or two years (these prophecies were written in Palestine 150-200 years before the Baptism of Russia - Archbishop Seraphim), will accept Christianity with all their hearts, will try to live according to the commandments of Christ and seek, according to the instructions of Christ the Savior, first of all Kingdom of God and His Righteousness. For this jealousy, the Lord God will love this people and add everything else to them - large expanses of land, wealth, state power and glory.
Due to human weakness, this will more than once fall into great sins. great people and for this we will be punished with no small trials. In a thousand years, even this God-chosen people will waver in faith and, in standing up for the Truth of Christ, will become proud of their earthly power and glory, will stop worrying about seeking the City of the future and will want paradise not in heaven, but on sinful earth.
However, not all of that people will follow this disastrous wide path, although a significant majority of them, especially the stratum leading them. And for this great fall, a terrible fiery test will be sent from above to this people, despising God's ways. Rivers of blood will spill over his land, brother will kill brother, hunger will visit this land more than once and gather its terrible harvest, almost all temples and other shrines will be destroyed or desecrated, many people will die.
Part of this people, not wanting to put up with lawlessness and untruth, will leave their native borders and disperse, like the Jewish people, throughout the world (isn't it said about us, Russian foreigners? - Archbishop Seraphim).
Yet the Lord will not be completely angry with His third chosen people. The blood of thousands of martyrs will cry out to heaven for mercy. The people themselves will begin to sober up and return to God. Finally, the period of purifying trial determined by the Just Judge will pass away, and holy Orthodoxy will again shine with the bright light of rebirth in those northern expanses.
This wondrous light of Christ will illuminate from there and enlighten all the peoples of the world, which will be helped by the providentially sent in advance to the dispersion of this people, which will build the centers of Orthodoxy - the temples of God - all over the world.
Christianity will then reveal itself in all its heavenly beauty and fullness. Most of the peoples of the world will become Christians. For some time, a prosperous and peaceful Christian life will reign in the entire sublunar world ...
And then? Then, when the fulfillment of times comes, a complete decline of faith and other things predicted in Holy Scripture will begin all over the world, the Antichrist will appear and, finally, the end of the world will come.
ALL ENEMIES OF ORTHODOXY WILL BE DESTROYED
In 2001, a group of Samara priests and laity, led by their archpastor, Archbishop Sergius, visited the Holy Mountain. Impressions from this pilgrimage were published in the first issue of the Orthodox almanac "Spiritual Interlocutor" for 2002. Often, during meetings with the inhabitants of Svyatogorsk, the discussion turned to the fate of Russia.
In particular, in the Greek monastery of Vatopedi, the 85-year-old elder monk Joseph (Joseph Jr.), a disciple of the famous Joseph the Hesychast, who died in Bose, especially received the Samara bishop. This ascetic now lives in a cell not far from the monastery and takes care of the monastery. Father Kirion, who accompanied Vladyka as an interpreter, spoke as follows after this meeting:
“The elder has grace written on his face. He told us about the fate of the world and the coming terrible events. The Lord endured our iniquities for a long time, as before the great flood, but now the limit of God's long-suffering is coming - the time for purification has come. The cup of God's wrath is overflowing. The Lord will allow suffering for the destruction of the wicked and theomachists - all those who have created modern turmoil, poured out dirt and infected the people. The Lord will allow that they will destroy each other with blinded minds. There will be many victims and blood. But believers do not need to be afraid, although for them there will be mournful days, there will be as many sorrows as the Lord allows for cleansing. There is no need to be afraid of this. Then there will be a surge of piety in Russia and throughout the world. The Lord will cover his. People will return to God.
We are already on the threshold of these events. Now everything begins, then the atheists will have the next stage, but they will not be able to carry out their plans, the Lord will not allow it. The elder said that after a surge of piety, the end of earthly history would be near.”
The elder did not deprive other Russian pilgrims of his conversation either.
“We pray,” he told them, “for the Russian people to return to their normal state, which was before the destruction, because we have common roots and are worried about the situation of the Russian people ...
This deterioration is now the general condition throughout the world. And this state is exactly the limit, after which the wrath of God already begins. We have reached this limit. The Lord only endured by His mercy, and now he will not endure, but by His righteousness he will begin to punish, because the time has come.
There will be wars and we will experience great hardships. Now the Jews have seized power all over the world, and their goal is to eradicate Christianity. The wrath of God will be such that all the secret enemies of Orthodoxy will be destroyed. Especially for this, the wrath of God is sent to destroy them.
Trials should not terrify us, we should always have hope in God. After all, thousands, millions of martyrs suffered in the same way, and the New Martyrs suffered in the same way, and therefore we must be prepared for this and not be horrified. Patience, prayer and hope in the Providence of God must be. Let us pray for the revival of Christianity after all that awaits us, so that the Lord would really give us the strength to be reborn. But this harm must be endured ...
Tests have long begun, and we must wait for the big bang. But after that, there will be a revival ...
Now the beginning of events, difficult military events. The engine of this evil is the Jews. The devil compels them to start in order to destroy the seed of Orthodoxy in Greece and in Russia. For them, this is the main obstacle to world domination. And they will force the Turks to come here to Greece and begin their actions. And Greece, although it has a government, but as such, in fact, it does not exist, as it were, because it has no power. And the Turks will come here. This will be the moment when Russia, too, will move its forces to push back the Turks.
Events will develop as follows: when Russia comes to the aid of Greece, the Americans and NATO will try to prevent this, so that there is no reunification, no merging of the two Orthodox peoples. They will also raise more forces - the Japanese and other peoples. There will be a great massacre on the territory of the former Byzantine Empire. Only the dead will be about 600 million people. The Vatican will also actively participate in all this in order to prevent the reunification and the growth of the role of Orthodoxy. But this will result in the complete destruction of the Vatican influence, to the very foundation. This is how God's Providence will turn...
There will be God's permission to destroy those who sow temptations: pornography, drug addiction, etc. And the Lord will blind their minds so much that they will destroy each other with gluttony. The Lord will allow it on purpose to do a big purge. As for the one who rules the country, he will not last long, and what is happening now will not be long, and then immediately the war. But after this great purge, there will be a revival of Orthodoxy not only in Russia, but throughout the world, a great upsurge of Orthodoxy.
The Lord will give His favor, grace, just as it was at the beginning, in the first centuries, when people with an open heart went to the Lord. This will last three or four decades, and then the dictatorship of the Antichrist will quickly come. These are the terrible events we must go through, but let them not terrify us, because the Lord will cover His own. Yes, indeed, we are experiencing difficulties, hunger and even persecution, and much more, but the Lord will not leave His own. And those who are placed in power should force their subjects to be more with the Lord, to be more in prayer, and the Lord will cover His own. But after the big purge there will be a big revival…”
The pilgrims also heard about another amazing revelation. He told them about him, with the blessing of the elders, a novice of the Russian St. Panteleimon Monastery George:
“The vision was revealed this year to one inhabitant of the Holy Mount Athos on the day of the murder of the royal family - the seventeenth of July. Let his name remain a secret, but this is a miracle that can amaze the whole world. He consulted with the elders of Athos, thinking that perhaps this was spiritual delusion, but they said that this was a revelation.
He saw a huge, enormous ship thrown onto the rocks in semi-darkness. He sees that the ship is called "Russia". The ship is tilting and is about to collapse from a cliff into the sea. There are thousands and thousands of people on the ship who are in a panic. They already think that the end of their lives should come, there is nowhere to wait for help. And suddenly a figure of a rider appears on the horizon, he rushes on a horse right across the sea.The closer the rider, the more clearly it is seen that this is our Sovereign.
He, as always, is dressed simply - in a soldier's cap, in a soldier's uniform, but insignia are visible. His face was bright and kind, and his eyes said that he loved the whole world and suffered for this world, for Orthodox Russia. A bright beam from the sky illuminates the Sovereign, and at that moment the ship smoothly descends into the water and lays down on its course. On the ship you can see the great rejoicing of the saved people, which cannot be described.
“In the last days you will have abundance in everything, but then everything will end.”
“But this joy will be for the shortest time: what next<...>will be<...>such grief, which has not been from the beginning of the world!”
“Then life will be short. Angels will barely have time to take souls!”
“At the end of the world, the whole earth will burn<...>and nothing will be left. Only three churches around the world, from all over the world will be taken entirely, undestroyed, to heaven: one in the Kyiv Lavra, another (I really don’t remember), and the third is yours, Kazan” ... "To me, the wretched Seraphim, the Lord revealed that there will be great disasters on the Russian land. The Orthodox faith will be trampled, the bishops of the Church of God and other clerics will depart from the purity of Orthodoxy, and for this the Lord will severely punish them. I, poor Seraphim, for three days and three nights prayed to the Lord that he would better deprive me of the Kingdom of Heaven, and have mercy on them. But the Lord answered, "I will not have mercy on them: for they teach the doctrines of men, and with their tongue they honor Me, but their heart is far from Me"... Any desire to change the rules and teachings of the Holy Church is heresy ... blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, which will never be forgiven. The bishops of the Russian land and the clergy will follow this path, and the wrath of God will strike them ... " “But the Lord will not be completely angry and will not allow the Russian land to be destroyed to the end, because in it alone Orthodoxy and the remnants of Christian piety are still predominantly preserved ... We have the Orthodox faith, the Church, which has no vice. For the sake of these virtues, Russia will always be glorious and terrible to enemies and invincible, having faith and piety - these gates of hell will not prevail. "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 . With the division of Turkey, almost all of it will remain with Russia ... "
Rev. Seraphim of Sarov, 1825-32
"European peoples have always envied Russia and tried to harm her.
Blessed is he who reads, and those who hear the words of prophecy, and keep what is written in it;
for the time is at hand (Rev. 1:3).
“I, a wretched Seraphim, from the Lord God are supposed to live much more than a hundred years. But since by that time Russian bishops are so ungodly that in their wickedness they will surpass the Greek bishops in the time of Theodosius the Younger, so that even the most important dogma of Christ's Faith - the Resurrection of Christ and the general Resurrection will not be believed, then the Lord God is pleased until the time of me, wretched Seraphim, from sowing an untimely life and then into the affirmation of the dogma of the resurrection, resurrect me, and my resurrection will be, like the resurrection of the seven youths in the cave of Okhlon during the time of Theodosius the Youngest. After my resurrection, I will move from Sarov to Diveev, where I will preach universal repentance. And for this great miracle, people from all over the earth will gather in Diveevo, and there, preaching repentance to them, I will open four relics and myself will lie fifth between them. But then it will be the end of everything.”
The current retreat is allowed by God: do not try to stop it with your weak hand. Remove yourself, protect yourself from it: and that is enough for you. Familiarize yourself with the spirit of the times, study it in order to avoid its influence as far as possible...
Constant reverence for the destinies of God is necessary for proper spiritual living. Into this reverence and obedience to God one must lead oneself by faith. The Providence of the Almighty God vigilantly watches over the destinies of the world and every person - and everything that happens is done either by the will or by the permission of God...
No one will change the predestinations of the Providence of God about Russia. The Holy Fathers of the Orthodox Church (for example, St. Andrew of Crete in the interpretation of the Apocalypse, chapter 20) predict Russia's extraordinary civil development and power ... And our disasters should be more moral and spiritual."
Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov, 1865
“Modern Russian society has turned into a mental desert. A serious attitude to thought has disappeared, every living source of inspiration has dried up ... The most extreme conclusions of the most one-sided Western thinkers are boldly presented as the last word of enlightenment ...
How many signs the Lord showed over Russia, delivering her from the strongest enemies and subjugating her nations! And yet, evil is growing. Shall we not come to our senses? The West has punished and the Lord will punish us, but we don't get it all. We got stuck in the mud of the western up to our ears, and all is well. There are eyes, but we don’t see, there are ears, but we don’t hear, and we don’t understand with our hearts ... Having inhaled this hellish intoxication, we are spinning like crazy, not remembering ourselves.
"If we don't come to our senses, the Lord will send us foreign teachers to bring us to our senses..."
“Evil is growing, wickedness and unbelief are raising their heads, faith and Orthodoxy are weakening... Well, sit back? No! Silent shepherds—what kind of shepherds? .. It is necessary to stop the freedom of ideas... Declare disbelief a state crime. Prohibit material views on pain of death!"Saint Theophan the Recluse, 1894
"Rulers-pastors, what have you made of your flock? The Lord will seek His sheep from Your hands! .. He mainly oversees the behavior of bishops and priests, their educational, sacred, pastoral activities ... The current terrible decline of faith and morals depends very much on the coldness towards their flocks of many hierarchs and the priestly rank in general.".
"But the All-good Providence will not leave Russia in this sad and disastrous state. It righteously punishes and leads to rebirth. God's righteous destinies are committed over Russia. She is forged by misfortunes and misfortunes. It is not in vain that He who rules all nations, skillfully, aptly the anvil of those subjected to His mighty hammer. Be strong, Russia! But also repent, pray, cry bitter tears before your heavenly Father, whom you have angered immeasurably!... The Russian people and other tribes inhabiting Russia are deeply corrupted, the crucible of temptations and disasters is necessary for everyone, and the Lord, who does not want anyone to perish, burns everyone in this crucible.
"I foresee the restoration of a powerful Russia, even stronger and more powerful. On the bones of the martyrs, as on a strong foundation, a new Russia will be erected - according to the old model; strong in its faith in Christ God and in the Holy Trinity! And it will be according to the testament of the holy prince Vladimir - as a single Church!The Russian people have ceased to understand what Russia is: it is the footstool of the Throne of the Lord! A Russian person should understand this and thank God for being Russian."
Holy Righteous Father John of Kronstadt. 1906-1908
“The persecution and torment of the first Christians may be repeated ... Hell is destroyed, but not destroyed, and the time will come when it will make itself felt. This time is not far off...
Until terrible times we will live
but the grace of God will cover us... The Antichrist is clearly going into the world, but this is not recognized in the world. The whole world is under the influence of some kind of force that takes possession of the mind, will and all spiritual qualities of a person. It is an outside force, an evil force. Its source is the devil, and evil people are only an instrument through which it operates. These are the forerunners of the Antichrist.In the Church we don't have living prophets now, but there are signs. They are given to us for the knowledge of times. They are clearly visible to people who have a spiritual mind. But this is not recognized in the world ... Everyone goes against Russia, that is, against the Church of Christ, for the Russian people are God-bearers, the true faith of Christ is preserved in them.
Venerable Barsanuphius of Optina, 1910
There will be a storm. And the Russian ship will be broken. But after all, even on chips and debris, people are saved. And yet, not everyone will die. We must pray, we must all repent and pray fervently... A great miracle of God will be revealed... And all the chips and fragments, by the will of God and His power, will gather and unite, and the ship will be recreated in all its glory and will go its own way, God intended. .."
Rev. Anatoly Optinsky. 1917
And Russia will be saved. Lots of pain, lots of pain. It is necessary to suffer much and much and to repent deeply for everyone. Only repentance through suffering will save Russia. All Russia will become a prison and you have to pray a lot to the Lord for forgiveness. Repent of sins and be afraid to commit even the slightest sins, but try to do good, even the smallest. After all, even the wing of a fly has weight, but God has accurate scales. And when the smallest thing outweighs goodness in the cup, then God will show His mercy over Russia ...
But first, God will take away all the leaders so that the Russian people look only at Him. Everyone will abandon Russia, other powers will abandon it, leaving it to itself. This is so that the Russian people trust in the help of the Lord. Hear that in other countries unrest will begin and similar to that in Russia, and you will hear about wars and there will be wars - now, the time is near. But don't be afraid of anything. The Lord will show His wonderful mercy.
The end will be through China.
There will be some unusual explosion, and a miracle of God will appear. And there will be a completely different life on earth, but not for a very long time. The Cross of Christ will shine over the whole world, because our Motherland will be exalted and will be like a beacon in the darkness for everyone."Schieeromonk Aristokliy Athos. 1917-1918
The monarchy and autocratic power will be restored in Russia. The Lord has chosen the future king. This will be a man of fiery faith, a brilliant mind and an iron will. 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 will be eliminated, and new, true, unshakable bishops will take their place... Something that no one expects will happen. Russia will rise from the dead, and the whole world will be surprised.
Orthodoxy will be reborn and triumph in it. But the Orthodoxy that was before will no longer be. God Himself will put a strong king on the throne."
Saint Theophan of Poltava, 1930
When a little freedom appears, churches will be opened, monasteries will be repaired, then all false teachings will come out. In Ukraine, they will strongly take up arms against the Russian Church, its unity and catholicity. This heretical group will be supported by a godless power. The Metropolitan of Kyiv, who is not worthy of this title, will greatly shake the Russian Church, and he himself will go into eternal perdition, like Judas. But all these slanders of the evil one in Russia will disappear, and there will be a One Orthodox Russian Church ...
Russia, together with all the Slavic peoples and lands, will constitute a mighty kingdom. He will be nourished by the Orthodox Tsar - God's Anointed One. All schisms and heresies will disappear in Russia. Jews from Russia will leave to meet the Antichrist in Palestine, and there will not be a single Jew in Russia. There will be no persecution of the Orthodox Church.
In Russia there will be a flourishing of faith and the former rejoicing (only for a short time, for the Terrible Judge will come to judge the living and the dead). Even the Antichrist himself will be afraid of the Russian Orthodox Tsar. Under the Antichrist, Russia will be the most powerful kingdom in the world. And all the other countries, except Russia and the Slavic lands, will be under the rule of the Antichrist and will experience all the horrors and torments written in the Holy Scriptures
The Third World War will no longer be for repentance, but for extermination. Where it passes, there will be no people. There will be such strong bombs that iron will burn, stones will melt. Fire and smoke with dust will reach the sky. And the earth will burn.
They will fight and two or three states will remain. There will be very few people left and then they will start shouting: Down with the war! Let's choose one! Install one king! They will choose a king who will be born of a prodigal virgin of the twelfth generation. And the Antichrist will sit on the throne in Jerusalem."Rev. Lawrence of Chernigov.
Sayings of the outstanding ascetic of Orthodoxy Schema-nun Makaria
(Artemyeva; 1926 - 1993).
From the age of one and a half her legs hurt, and from the age of three she no longer walked, but crawled; at eight he falls asleep in a lethargic sleep and for two weeks his soul abides in paradise. With the blessing of the Queen of Heaven, she receives the gift of healing people. During the war years, the girl is left on the street, where she lived for seven hundred days. She is picked up by an old nun, with whom the ascetic will live for twenty years, and then she herself will become a monk and a schema. Until the last day of her life, she was in obedience to the Queen of Heaven.
The feat of the schema nun Makaria was the tireless, day and night, never ceasing prayer for Moscow, for Russia and all Russians. high life folk sadness and prayer book is presented in the form of hagiographic narration. The book is intended for the widest range of readers. Matushka Makaria about the future was either an answer to the questions posed, or a warning aimed at protecting people close to her from trouble or future trials. Speaking about the future, she often limited herself to short remarks, explanations and brief characteristics. We present some of them. All of them were grouped by us according to their meaning, and the date when they were said by the ascetic is marked in brackets.
About the onset of terrible times.
And now there are no young people, all the old ones in a row, soon there will be no people at all (06/27/88). Until the year 99, there should be nothing now, no disaster (05/12/89). According to the Bible, we now live. It's called "Performed". And when the 99th comes to an end, then we will live according to the “History” (02.07.87). As long as the “Performed” Bible has not ended, nothing will happen, and it will last until the year 99! You will not die until that time, I will die, God will take me away (27.12-87).
Today is fine, but next summer it will be worse. I used to say: this is not good for such darkness, there will be some kind of hole (06/28/89). The Lord does not promise anything good, we will not receive anything, so we will go on somehow (12/17/89). Mother of God with us (meaning, in the Russian land. - Auth.) grace removed. And the Savior sent the apostles Peter and Paul, and John the Theologian to them (in other Christian countries. — Auth.) remove grace. This is where you need to pray! (03/14/89) Now there will be nothing big (07/07/89).
Money will not get better, only twice as cheap, and then even cheaper(11. 02. 89).
Such a time comes, the power is taken away by sorcerers. It will be even worse, God forbid, live to see it (05.10.88). Soon a bad person will go, will go wheel. Well, it would be the end of the world, but here - the destruction of buildings and people, everything is mixed with mud, you will walk knee-deep in blood (03/25/89).
Soon all people will be this thing (witchcraft. - Auth.) know. All around the evil one devilry will be. Gather them together and start. bad life comes (28.10.87). Now their time has come Good times end (24.05.88). They will spoil people, and then they will point at each other (03/27/87).
Now the people, in general, are not good. The authorities will not bow to the people, and there will be complete devastation(11.07.88). Now they have no zeal for the people, that's what they want to do evil: who steals, who drinks, but what is it like for children (12/20/87).
Now you can’t go to the floors (to live in multi-storey buildings. - Auth.). Now there is crowding, everywhere the people are bad, now with their unclean intention they are crowding the believing people (03/25/89).
The Chinese are worse for us. The Chinese are very evil, they will cut without mercy. They will take half of the land, they don't need anything else. They don't have enough land.
(27.06.88),
When the victory of darkness is complete.
We will be in the dark (08/27/87). And the light will not be allowed to be lit, they will say: need to save energy(28.06.88).
This is the beginning, then it will be cold. Soon Easter will come with snow, and winter will come to Pokrov. And the grass is only for Peter's day. The sun will decrease by half (08/27/87). Summer will be bad, and winter - more. The snow will lie, and they will not drive it away. And then it is not known what frosts will be (04/29/88).
There will be a big famine.
The Mother of God said: “You, Mother, have almost lived to see state tables. Soon there will be government tables. If you come, they will feed you, but they won’t even let you take out a piece of bread.” The youth will be driven to the village. (09/15/87).
Soon you will be left without bread(29.01.89). Soon there will be no water, there will be no apples, there will be no cards (12/19/87). The hunger is great, there will be no bread- Divide the crust in half (02/18/88).
There will be a big uprising. From the floors (from the cities. - Auth.) people will scatter, they will not sit in the rooms. You can’t sit in the rooms, nothing will become, even bread(28.12.90). And if you pray to the Savior, the Mother of God and Elijah the Prophet, they will not let them die of hunger, they will save those who believed God and sincerely prayed (06/27/88).
A crop failure will begin when the monks will be exiled (02/18/88).
And you won't die. It will be the will of the Lord, whoever is not written to die, he will be tormented and die will not die (06/21/88). All good people died, they are all in paradise, they did not know this emptiness: they prayed to God, they will be fine there (01.02.88).
Too bad we made it to the end of the world. The world will end soon. Now a little remains (12/11/88). Now she said: (meaning the Mother of God. - Auth.)"A little left." Now the people are bad, rarely anyone will go to heaven. (04.04.88).
Church disorganization is coming.
The Bible that is printed is wrong. They (apparently Pharisaic Jews. - Auth.) from there they will throw out everything that concerns them, they do not want reproach (03/14/89).
A change of faith is being prepared. When this happens, the saints will retreat and will not pray for Russia. And those who are (of the faithful. — Auth.). The Lord will take to Himself. And the bishops who allow this are neither here nor there (in the next world. - Auth.) They will not see the Lord (08/03/88).
Soon the service will be half, will be reduced. (11.07.88). They will keep the service only in large monasteries, and in other places they will make a change (05/27/88). I only say one thing: woe to the priesthood comes, they will crumble one by one and will live (06/28/89). In churches in red dresses will serve. Now the evil devil will take everyone (05/20/89).
Soon the sorcerers will spoil all the prosphora and there will be nothing to serve (liturgy. - Auth.). And you can take communion once a year. The Mother of God will tell her people where and when to take communion. You just have to listen! (28.06.89)
Hope my Mother of God.
When at four o'clock in the afternoon it becomes dark as at night, then the Mother of God will come. She will go around the earth, will be in all her glory and will come to Russia to establish faith. The Mother of God will come - she will equalize everything, not in their own way (those in power or sorcerers. - Auth.), but in His own way, as the Savior commands. The time will come so that everyone will think, not what he ate, but how much he prayed that day. Faith She will restore for a short time (07/11/86).
The time for persecution is near.
Such confusion will be made, and you will not save the soul (01.90). Who will enter the churches will be recorded (18.02.88). For the fact that you pray to God, they will chase you for that (05/20/89). You need to pray so that no one knows, pray quietly! They will begin to pursue, take away (05/15/87). First, books will be taken away, and then icons. Icons will be selected (07.01.88). They will torment: "We don't need believers" (14.07.88).
Further - worse: the churches will be closed, there will be no services, they will serve in some places. They will leave somewhere far away, so as not to go or pass. And in cities where they consider that they do not interfere (01/07/88).
These churches, which are being built and repaired, will go to other enterprises, and will not benefit anyone. Registration will be cunning: they will remain called churches, and there you will not understand what, their production, they will find what to do (11.07.88).
Whoever is God's will not see the Antichrist (01/07/88). It will be open to many where to go, where to go. The Lord knows how to hide his own, no one will find (11/17/87).
Blessed are those who keep the commandments of God.
According to the Bible, we are now living, it is called “Performed” (02.07.87). Soon everything will be nearby: the earth is nearby, and the sky is nearby, there will be a lot of everything, such a Master (apparently, the Savior. -Aut.) will be (06/08/90). She said (Mother of God. - Auth.):“A little is left, he will descend to earth with the Savior, they will sanctify everything, and on earth it will come like paradise (04.04.88)”.
In conclusion, let me recall the words of Hieromonk Nektarios of Optina: “Look for great meaning in everything. All events that occur around us and with us have their own meaning. Nothing happens without a reason…”
To me, a wretched Seraphim, the Lord revealed that there would be great disasters on the Russian land, the Orthodox faith would be trampled on, the bishops of the Church of God and other clerics would depart from the purity of Orthodoxy, and for this the Lord would severely punish them. I, poor Seraphim, for three days and three nights prayed to the Lord that he would better deprive me of the Kingdom of Heaven, and would have mercy on them. But the Lord answered: I will not have mercy on them, for they teach the doctrines of men, and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. I, the wretched Seraphim, from the Lord God are supposed to live much more than a hundred years. But how by that time the Russian bishops become so impious that they surpass the Greek bishops in the time of Theodosius the Younger in their wickedness, so that even the most important dogma of the Christian Faith - the Resurrection of Christ and the universal Resurrection will not be believed.
Therefore, it is pleasing to the Lord God until the time of me, the wretched Seraphim, to take me from this temporary life and then to affirm the dogma of the resurrection, resurrect me, and my resurrection will be like the resurrection of the seven youths in the cave of Okhlonskaya in the time of Theodosius the Youngest. After my resurrection, I will move from Sarov to Diveevo, where I will preach universal repentance. And for this great miracle, people from all over the earth will gather in Diveevo, and there, preaching repentance to them, I will open four relics and myself will lie fifth among them. But then it will be the end of everything. In the days of that great tribulation, of which it is said that no flesh would have been saved if those days had not been shortened for the sake of the elect, in those days the remnant of the faithful will experience something similar to what was once experienced by the Lord Himself, when He, hanging on the cross, being perfect God and perfect man, felt himself so abandoned by His Divinity that he cried out to Him: My God! My God! Why did you leave me? Such a abandonment of mankind by the Grace of God must be experienced by the last Christians, but only the most short time after which the Lord will not hesitate to appear after him in all His glory and all the Holy Angels with Him. And then everything predetermined from the ages in the eternal Council will be accomplished in its entirety.
“- Don’t worry about the Sovereign, the Lord will save him. He is a Christian in his soul, which some even from the spiritual great persons cannot say about themselves. faith in the Lord cannot be compared with the faith of His Imperial Majesty, judge for yourselves: Peter the Great lived in a time when the first boyars cherished the tsar’s things with one look, as if by the grace of God, and everyone silently submitted to the Tsar, it was so easy for him to manage. now the people are not the same, and if, behind all this change, the Sovereign is obeyed and his enemies tremble, then our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and the Mother of God help in everything for the unfeigned faith of his Orthodox, so with it he is higher than Peter the Great and it is for her that God helps him in everything and in his days will exalt Russia so much over all her enemies that she will become higher than all the kingdoms of the earth and not only will we no longer have to learn anything from foreigners, but they will also happen to visit our Ze let the Russians learn from us both the Orthodox Christian Faith and the pious life according to this faith; and many, many will be at first before all the grief of the Sovereign and will repeatedly begin to look for his head consecrated to God and the belly of the Royal family, but the Lord will always protect him and his entire August Royal House; For the sake of one righteous person, the whole family is saved, which speaks for the sake of three, and in his sovereign family, look, your Godly love, how many holy relics from his crowned flesh and blood, I think that there are more than a dozen saints of God, so they are all prayer books for the family him and his sacred Imperial Person; if only his august parent, the most pious Empress Maria Feodorovna, she is like a mother to all orphans and the needy, and this, after all, is the work of saints only of God-wise wives, and if that is great in a simple person, all the more so in a sacred crowned Tsar’s person, pleasing to God, and the Sovereign in Bose, the deceased All-August parent of him, Emperor Pavel Petrovich, how he loved the Holy Church, how he honored her holy statutes and how much he did for her good, few of the Russian tsars, like him, served the Church of God; and the Lord will help His Imperial Majesty and much more to make for our Holy Orthodox Church and one in the whole universe true, immaculately Apostolic Universal Church Christ, but before that, much grief will have to be endured both by the Sovereign and the Russian Land.
Not only external enemies will rise up against him, but also internal ones, and this is how it will be: the rebels, who rebelled against the Sovereign upon his accession to the throne, boasted that although the grass was mowed, but the roots remained, even though they did not boast according to God this, and this, however, is true, for the main leaders of this evil intention, betraying those whom they themselves involved in this evil intention of their own, and themselves remained on the sidelines, and now they are looking for and will look for the death of the Sovereign and all His surname is Tsarskaya, and they will repeatedly look for whether it is possible to somehow exterminate them, and when their repeated attempts fail, they will take on something else - and they will try that if it is possible for them, then all people would be in all state positions or agree with them, or at least not harmful to them.
And they will in every possible way restore the Russian Land against the Sovereign; when, even then, they will not succeed, as they will want to, for in places the private indignations they start up will soon be stopped by the grace of God, then they will wait for such a time when it will be very difficult for the Russian Land without that, and, in one day, in one hour, having agreed in advance that they will raise a general revolt in all places of the Russian Land; and so many of the servants will then themselves participate in their evil intentions, then there will be no one to appease them. And at first, a lot of innocent blood will be shed, its rivers will flow across the Russian Land, and many of your brothers, nobles, and clergy, and merchants, disposed towards the Sovereign, will be killed.
But when the Russian Land is divided and one side will obviously remain with the rebels, while the other will obviously stand for the Sovereign and the integrity of Russia, then, your love of God, your zeal in God and in time. And the Lord will help a just cause: he will stand for the Sovereign and the Fatherland and our holy Church, and the Sovereign and the entire Royal Family will be preserved by the Lord with His invisible right hand and will give complete victory to those who raised arms for Him, for the Church and for the good of the indivisibility of the Russian Land; but not so much blood will be shed here, but when the right side for the Sovereign, who stood for the Sovereign, will receive a victory and catch all the traitors, and deliver them into the hands of justice. Then no one will be sent to Siberia, but everyone will be executed - and here even more blood will be shed, but this blood will be the last, cleansing blood, for after that the Lord will bless His people with peace and exalt the horn of His anointed David, His servant, a husband after His own heart, the most pious Sovereign Emperor Nikolai Pavlovich - he was also approved and moreover will be confirmed by His holy right hand over the Russian Land.
So why should we be discouraged, your love of God: if God is for us, whoever is on us - they have foreshadowed them, they have been chosen, they have been chosen, sanctify them, sanctify them, glorify them - and watch them; why should we be discouraged, your love of God, if God is for us, who is against us - understand the nations and submit, as God is with us, those who are able to submit, as God is with us, and if you can still, you will be victorious, as God is with us - so “So, your love of God, God is with us and there is no way for us to lose heart.”
In indescribable joy, I just wanted to say: “So bless me, father, I’ll go to Petersburg right now and try to see the Sovereign and most submissively report your words to him,” and he, covering my mouth with his hand, said:
"- How can you not understand: not now, but later; now is not yet the time, but later, when you see Jerusalem according to the prophet, the situation is howling. The Lord Himself will bring you then and He will put it into your heart to proclaim good things about Jerusalem. And now you need to beware you, and the Sovereign, the Lord will save and bless him and the Russian Land with every blessing, both on earth and in heaven; while your mouth to mouth, report all my words to His Majesty - then say what you think now. "I asked, What; he answered: “Everything that is for the good of the Sovereign, the holy Church and the Russian Land, God will then put to your heart - then do not be afraid and erect everything to his Imperial Majesty, and what is it to you and has repeatedly said before: the Lord and the Mother of God Themselves will arrange your path for good, and the wretched Seraphim prayers to Him for you will be with you everywhere.
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For us, every word of St. Seraphim of Sarov, according to a Diveyevo nun: " Father never said anything So ". If the writer Sergius Nilus says about St. Ambrose of Optina that his contemporaries sacredly honored and observed his every word, even casually uttered, then this applies to the Great Seraphim to a greater extent. Naturally, private, personal prophecies were forgotten with the departure from this life of the people to whom they were told. But God sent Rev. Seraphim of such people who would bring him to us global prophecies that apply to everyone. Also, subsequently, people who wield a pen were miraculously attracted by God to bring the prophecies of the Holy Elder to us, miraculously received materials in their hands, wrote books for us, reading them, we try to understand what the Holy Spirit said through the reverend us in our leadership. Of course, Rev. Seraphim saw the future in the smallest detail and better than we see our recent past. But this does not mean that the people to whom he conveyed his revelations understood them as well as he did. This is not what God required of them. And how to understand the prophecies, which in time exceed the limits of one or many generations of people. But these were the most devoted and ardently loving people of the holy Elder, they themselves realized that they understood little in his prophecies, and tried to convey everything he said verbatim. Such was Nikolai Alexandrovich Motovilov, who " was immediately ready to shed his blood to the last drop for the All-August Health" Emperor, why and was chosen prep. Seraphim, or rather, God Himself to convey to us the prophecy about the Victorious King. God led Motovilov in such a way that even his seemingly wrong actions, connected with his incorrect understanding of the prophecies of St. Seraphim, served to the greater glory of God. In the book "On the Bank of God's River" S. A. Nilus writes: " From various notes - partly in notebooks, partly on scraps of paper - it could be assumed that Motovilov applied considerable energy to ensure that the glorification of the saint was accomplished back in the reign of NicholasI, with his wife Alexandra Feodorovna and mother Maria Feodorovna. And his disappointment was great when his efforts were not crowned with success, contrary, as it might seem, to the predictions of God's saint, who connected his glorification with the indicated combination of the most august names. Motovilov died in 1879, without waiting for the justification of his faith. Could it have occurred to him, or to anyone else, that 48 years after the death of NicholasIon the All-Russian throne, exactly the same names will be repeated: Nicholas, Alexandra Feodorovna and Maria Feodorovna - under which the glorification of the great seer St. Seraphim, so desired and predicted by Motovilov, will take place?" Before proceeding to the greatest prophecy about the Victorious King, - N. A. Motovilov's letter to Sovereign Emperor NicholasIdated March 9, 1854 "to the most humble report of the words of the Great Elder Seraphim on paper about his conversation on Thursday at Easter, 1832, it is necessary to make some clarifications. Since we are talking about the already deliberately covered Rev. Seraphim prophecy, then you need to show what methods he resorts to for this. For example, let's take another prophecy of St. Seraphim, at the direction of Emperor Alexander III, kept in the archives of the police department. Prophecy about the reign of Emperor Nicholas II: " At the beginning of the reign of this Monarch, there will be misfortunes and misfortunes of the people. There will be an unsuccessful war. Great turmoil will come within the state, the father will rise against his son and brother against brother. But second half of the reign it will be bright, and the life of the Sovereign is long-term". The publishers of the book "The Life, Prophecies and Instructions of Seraphim of Sarov Wonderworker" interpret second half of the reign the words of the Apocalypse eternal life in Heavenly Jerusalem: The saved nations will walk in its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory and honor into it."(Rev. 21:24). But I suppose that here we are talking about different Tsars: Tsar Nicholas II the Redeemer and the Tsar the Victor. The idea is hidden here that the second half board out of the first half board, that is, that the reign of the Conquering King will only be possible through the expiatory sacrifice of the King-redeemer. Or so: a seed thrown in one half of the summer will bear fruit in the second half of the summer, and the entire reign of the Tsar-Conqueror is the fruit of the expiatory sacrifice of Tsar Nicholas II. Therefore, these two reigns are united by St. Seraphim into one, and imperceptible transition from king to king serves as a cover for prophecy. Another method of covering up prophecy, which is used by St. Seraphim, described by the holy fathers in the interpretation on Psalm 71 (About Solomon, a psalm to David): "This psalm is a prophecy, a cover for the time being by certain names. David wrote it about Solomon, but he set out visions that are much more important than Solomon's virtues and even the nature of all people. This psalm predicts the coming of Christ to earth and the calling of peoples who will bring gifts and worship the Savior as God. The history of prophecy testifies that much of what has been said speaks about some, but comes true for others. Since the prophets spoke to ungrateful people who killed prophets, burned books, destroyed altars, then a veil was justly laid for them when reading the Old Testament; otherwise, they would have destroyed the books if they understood the power of prophecy about Christ. If they were not ashamed of Him when He Himself was present... and did not lag behind until they crucified Him, then they would hardly have spared those who spoke of Him, whom they already ceaselessly stoned. Therefore, the prophets, using their own and known names, thus covered the prophecies. (St. John Chrysostom, St. Athanasius the Great, Blessed Augustine of Hippo, Blessed Theodoret of Kirr)" . It is also interesting to know at what time Motovilov sent a letter about the prophecy of the Great Elder Seraphim to the Sovereign. Historian N. D. Talberg writes: " Emperor Napoleon exacerbated the issueIII. Needing the support of various circles in France, in particular Catholic ones, he began to demand from the Sultan the expansion of the rights of Catholics in the Holy Places. The latter received the keys to the Church of the Resurrection, which previously belonged to the Orthodox Greeks. Russia demanded the return of the keys. When Turkey refused this in 1853, the subordinates of Porte Moldavia and Wallachia were occupied by Russian troops "as a pledge until Turkey satisfies the just demands of Russia." The Sultan appealed to other powers with a protest.<...>Turkey offered Russia to clear the principalities within 15 days, and when this did not follow, on September 14, 1853, it declared war on Russia.<...>On December 22, the Anglo-French fleet entered the Black Sea without declaring war.<...>February 9, 1854 Russia declared war on England and France. March 28 was followed by the announcement of the same by these states, which caused the war, but wished that the challenge did not come from them.<...>. On April 20, 1854, Prussia concluded an agreement with Austria in Vienna, and both powers demanded the cleansing of Moldavia and Wallachia by Russia. The principalities were cleared and occupied by Turkish and Austrian troops. On December 2, 1854, Austria entered into an alliance with England and France.<...>On January 26, 1855, the kingdom of Sardinia declared war on Russia" . "In response to the Emperor's direct appeal to him, Count Kisilev expressed his view of affairs as follows: "Four allied powers, with 108 million people and three billion in income, stand against Russia, which has 65 million people and barely one billion in income."" . That is, when the Emperor was super busy with the outbreak of war, Motovilov turned to Him with a prophecy of St. Seraphim. This letter is of tremendous importance for all Russians, but due to lack of space, we will analyze only its most important fragment: « The Sovereign in Bose, His All-August Parent, Emperor Pavel Petrovich, how much he loved the Holy Church, how he honored Her holy charters and how much he did for Her good, not many of the Russian Tsars served the Church of God like Him, ...» Above Rev. Seraphim says about the GRAND ROD of Nicholas I: "how many holy relics from His crowned flesh and blood, I remember more than a dozen saints of God, so they are all prayer books for HIS family and HIS HOLY IMPERIAL PERSON", and here he exalts Emperor Paul I so above the others Tsars. Here is the testimony of the Great Seraphim about the holiness of Emperor Paul. “... well, HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY and even much more will help the Lord to do for our Holy Orthodox Church and the One in the whole True Universe - the Immaculate Apostolic Ecumenical Church of Christ, but before that there will be much more grief for both the SOVEREIGN and the Russian Land postpone ;» Here Rev. Seraphim imperceptibly makes the transition from Tsar Nicholas I to the Tsar-Conqueror, saying as it were: our Church in the whole universe is One True, therefore preaching in different parts of the world by other "Christian churches": Catholics, Protestants, etc., is not a sermon Truth, but preaching lies. And our Church is Immaculately Apostolic and She is to become Ecumenical: " And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world, as a testimony to all nations; and then the end will come"(Matt. 24:14; Mark 13:10), but before the Russian Land, the betrayal of the Russian Tsar, His slaughter and the transfer of the Jewish yoke will come. “... not only external enemies will rise up against HIM, but also internal ones; and this is how it will be: the rebels, who revolted against the GOVERNMENT when HIS ascended the throne, boasted that although the grass was cut and the roots remained, even though they did not boast according to God, but this is nevertheless true, for the main bosses of this Evil Intent betrayed those whom they themselves involved in this Evil Intent of their own, and themselves remained on the sidelines, and now they are looking for and will look for the death of the SOVEREIGN and all of HIS ROYAL FAMILY. Everything said by Rev. Seraphim, is superbly confirmed by the facts set forth by the historian Oleg Platonov in the book " crown of thorns Russia. The Secret History of Freemasonry 1731-2000" in Chapter 5: In the Underground. - The Preservation of the Masonic Organization. - Patronage in the Higher Spheres. The word "seek" refers to Tsar Nicholas I, and the words "will seek" refer to subsequent Tsars, especially Tsar Alexander II and to Tsar Nicholas II and all HIS TSAR'S FAMILY. "... and they will repeatedly look for whether it is possible to somehow exterminate THEM, and when their repeated attempts fail, ..." Rev. Seraphim imperceptibly passes from Tsar Nicholas I to Tsar Alexander II. The words "their repeated attempts" refer to the latter. It is known that there were no direct attempts on Tsar Nicholas I, while there were "repeated attempts" on Tsar Alexander II. Rev. Seraphim spoke with Motovilov in the spring of 1832, the Decembrist uprising was suppressed 6 and a half years ago, and the Polish uprising half a year ago: on August 27, 1831, Field Marshal Count Fyodor Ivanovich Paskevich took Warsaw. Cholera riots also ended half a year ago. Emperor Nicholas I ruled with a firm hand, and His reign was relatively calm. Those few cases, which we will discuss below, can by no means be called "repeated assassination attempts." N. D. Talberg writes: " Benckendorff recalls that in St. Petersburg a young Pole came to him, repenting of his intention to kill the Tsar. He was excited by rumors of widespread persecution against the Poles. Arriving in the capital, he was convinced that the Poles calmly serve there, receive awards, saw calmness in the capital. The young man began to revere the Sovereign. After Benckendorff's report on this, the Emperor received the Pole, who frankly told Him everything. The sovereign asked him about future plans and, at his request, appointed him to serve in Poland.<...> During this stay of the Sovereign in Moscow, there were frequent fires. There were many crowded wooden houses in Zamoskvorechye. The sovereign arrived there along with fire pipes and personally commanded. The same thing happened two days later. Several arsonists were caught. They were driven through the line at the crime scene. The fires then stopped.<...> When He [Emperor NicholasI] in April 1849 was in Moscow, he received information about the disclosure of the Petrashevsky conspiracy. The infection has penetrated into Russia" . That is, several trifling cases and one conspiracy uncovered in time for the entire thirty-year reign! Another thing is the reign of Emperor Alexander II, which ended with His villainous murder on March 1, 1881. (But Motovilov did not yet know this in 1854). Then what do the words of Rev. seraphim that " their repeated attempts fail"? They will not succeed in the sense of the goals set by the Masons. The terrible atrocity stirred up the whole of Russia. The eyes of ordinary Masons were opened and the Masonic lodges were empty. The Russian patriot historian V.V. Nazarevsky wrote: " Sedition, which seemed irresistible, melted like wax in the face of fire, disappeared like smoke under the wings of the wind. Distemper in the minds began to quickly give way to Russian sanity, licentiousness and self-will gave way to order and discipline. Freethinking no longer trampled on Orthodoxy ... The authority of an indisputable and hereditary national supreme power returned to its historical traditional height". “...then they will take up something else - and they will try that if it is possible for them, then in all state positions there would be all people or those who agree with them, or at least not harmful to them, and will in every possible way restore the Russian Land against the GOVERNMENT, when, even then, they will not succeed in the way they want, for in places the private disturbances they provoke will soon be stopped by the grace of God, then they will wait for a time when it will be very difficult for the Russian Land without that, and in one day in one hour, having agreed in advance that they will raise a general revolt in all places of the Russian Land, and since many of the employees will then themselves participate in their Malice, there will be no one to appease them, and at first a lot of innocent blood will be shed, its rivers will flow in the Russian Land, many of your brothers of the nobility, and the clergy, and the merchants, who are disposed to the GOVERNMENT, will be killed. This entire fragment refers to the reign of Emperor Nicholas II and the subsequent revolution. It's amazing how Rev. Seraphim saw the whole course of events and even individual moments, for example, when the commanders of the fronts, the Masonic generals " on the same day, with one voice, having agreed in advance"They sent their telegrams to the Tsar with requests and demands for His abdication from the Throne. All this was said by the Great Seraphim for 85 years old before the revolution! Again and again the Great Prophet says that rivers of innocent blood will flow across the Russian Land. But he says that this is only the beginning - " at first". And, he says, they will kill those who are located to the SOVEREIGN. We are all witnesses - all this has already happened. “... but when the Russian Land is divided and one side will obviously remain with the rebels, while the other will obviously stand for the SOVEREIGN and the integrity of Russia, then, your love of God, your zeal in God and in time.” Motovilov still thinks that we are talking about Emperor Nicholas I, he doesn’t even realize that the Elder was talking about Tsar Nicholas II, the revolution and the civil war with the horrors of the Cheka and " rivers of innocent blood", and now he is talking about the events of the XXI century, i.e. about our time. Neither under Nicholas I, nor under Alexander II, nor under Alexander III, was the Russian Land divided. It was divided only under Nicholas II, so maybe the Great Elder is talking about this division? Not! At that time there was no side that would clearly stood for the GOVERNOR. Only two noble generals showed their loyalty to the Tsar - Count Fyodor Arturovich Keller and Khan of Nakhichevan Hussein Ali. The White movement was generally anti-monarchist. And when the Judeo-Communists established themselves and killed everyone who was disposed towards the SOVEREIGN, then there was no division at all: everyone taught at school that Nikolai was bloody. That is, such a division, about which St. Seraphim has not yet been, it is just beginning, and begins with the Church: one priest prays for the health of the Blessed Sovereign and our Father, His name is Thou, O Lord, and the other priest prays for the authorities and her army (it is clear which authorities). One father lovingly serves St. Tsar Nicholas II, and the other orders His icons to be taken out of the temple. Pay attention to the reaction of the bishops: whose side did they immediately rush to? But Rev. Seraphim also speaks of the integrity of Russia. Are all churchmen for the integrity of Russia, or do they watch where the wind blows and what the independent authorities seem to do? Here, says the Rev. Seraphim of Sarov, Motovilov's zeal for God to transmit this prophecy to us and by the time. So that we clearly know which side God is on. "... and the Lord will help the just cause of those who have stood for the GOVERNMENT and the Fatherland and our Holy Church." This is how Father Seraphim consoles us! The Lord will help the right cause! If God is for us, then who can be against us? "...and the Lord and the entire ROYAL FAMILY will be preserved by the Lord with His invisible right hand." And he still keeps the Romanov family abroad. “... and will give a complete victory to those who raised their arms for Him, for the Church and for the good of the indivisibility of the Russian Land - but not so much blood will be shed here, but when the right side for the GOVERNMENT will receive victory and catch all the traitors and betray them into the hands Justice, then no one will be sent to Siberia, but everyone will be executed, and here even more blood will be shed, but this blood will be the last, cleansing blood. Really, as soon as the Rev. Seraphim of Sarov will point to the Victorious Tsar, all these anointed presidents, who with such difficulty achieved their power, many of them ruined so many people in the process, will they immediately renounce their power and transfer it to Prince Romanov? Lest anyone think so, Rev. Seraphim warns that arms will raise the side that has become for the GOVERNMENT is right, and the Lord will give it a complete victory, and at the same time blood will be shed, but relatively small. And then, says Rev. Seraphim of Sarov, the right side for the GOVERNMENT will receive another Victory, greater than the previous one, and the catching of all traitors will begin and their transfer to the hands of Justice, and all traitors will be executed. And Rev. Seraphim warns that with this new Victory and with the execution of all traitors, much more blood will be shed than with the restoration of the Monarchy in Russia. And since execution is an unpleasant business, then St. Seraphim of Sarov says that this execution for Justice and the work of God and the earth without this blood is impossible to be cleansed. But, says Rev. Seraphim, this blood will last there will never be any more blood anywhere. What kind of new Victory is this right for the GOVERNMENT of the party that has become, after which there will be no more blood? This is the Victory of the Russian Tsar-Victor over the Antichrist, this is the Victory of the Church over the antichurch, this is the Victory of the people of God over the people of the Antichrist, this is the Victory of the Kingdom of the Anointed of God over the kingdom of the false anointed. “... for after that the Lord will bless his people with peace and exalt the horn of His anointed David, the servant of His Husband after His own heart, the most pious Sovereign Emperor Nikolai Pavlovich. He was confirmed and moreover will be confirmed by His holy right hand over the Russian Land. Not only here, but also in other places, the Great Seraphim calls the EMPEROR of the RUSSIAN - David, and this comparison contains the deepest meaning. Not only Rev. Seraphim of Sarov constantly repeated this comparison, but also many saints, for example, St. Demetrius of Rostov: “Among the collections of the works of St. Demetrius of Rostov, there are two Words that he uttered in connection with the visit of Tsar Peter I in one case to the monastery, in the other - to the Rostov diocese. In both speeches, the theme of the great significance of the Autocracy for Russian society sounds vividly. The Russian Tsar is seen as a Person, leading its root from the King-prophet David. Also the King is the earthly image of Christ, the King of Heaven. But I dare to say that this was the favorite topic of the Saint, and in every speech he makes to the Tsar he cites this comparison. In his speech to the Great Sovereign on March 8, 1701, the Saint says: I am filled with joy in the likeness of the sons of Sionich, about whom David: "The sons of Zion will rejoice in their King" (Ps. 142:2). In truth, this God-saved Royal city of Zion will listen with the second name, when the grace of God from the Old Law is taken up by Zion, exalted on it by Christian Orthodoxy; and somewhere the sons of Zion, Christian-Russian children rejoice in their Tsar". By the way, in the same word St. Demetrius says: " Christ of the Lord, the Anointed of God, by his royal dignity is the image and likeness of Christ the Lord. Christ the Lord in heaven in the triumphant Church is exalted; Christ of the Lord on earth, by the grace and mercy of Christ heavenly, in the Church at war leading ". That is, in 1701, with a living patriarch, he calls the Russian Tsar the leading (i.e., head) of the Warring Church! This is how the entire Orthodox Church realized this for centuries, then still free from modern papist tendencies. Why did the Saints call the Russian Tsar David or leading His root from David? Because the Russian Tsar, then the Emperor was the only anointed of God on earth, the rest of the Orthodox Sovereigns (Greek, Bulgarian, Serbian, etc.) only got married to the kingdom without anointing. Exactly Russian Emperor was HOLDING the mystery of iniquity, many saints wrote about this, the whole Church and even non-Orthodox peoples, for example, the Palestinian Arabs, realized this. That is, all the promises given by God to David directly relate to the Russian Tsar. The Great Seraphim says that after a general revolt, rivers of blood, death of those faithful to the Tsar, after the division of the Russian Land into two sides, then two, smaller and larger, victories of the people of the GOVERNMENT and the execution of all traitors, the Lord will exalt the horn of His anointed David, the most pious Sovereign Emperor, i.e. e. Tsar-Conqueror. And in order for this greatest prophecy printed in a book with the blessing of Patriarch Alexy II and other books, Ven. Seraphim calls the name of this King - Nikolai Pavlovich, that is, he uses to cover up the prophecy about the new David the technique that King-Prophet David used in Psalm 71 when he called the psalm about Solomon, while the entire psalm refers not to Solomon, but to Jesus Christ. What do the words " exalt the horn"? Horn - means strength, fortress, advantage." The Lord will exalt the horn of His anointed"- means to magnify the power of His Anointed One. St. Seraphim uses the words from the thanksgiving prayer of Anna, the mother of the prophet Samuel, spoken by her in the Spirit when she brought and gave her baby son to serve the Lord (1 Sam. 2:10). Only Anna said about David "exalt", and St. Seraphim raised to a superlative degree "exalt" because we are talking about the Tsar-Conqueror of the Antichrist in the whole world. over the Russian land. You can end with Rev. Seraphim, filled with the deepest faith in VICTORY, dispelling every defeatist spirit: “So why should we be despondent, your love of God, if God is for us, who is on us - they are forewarned, these are pre-elected, they are pre-elected, these are sanctified, they are sanctified, these are glorified - these are also observed, what we should lose heart, your love of God, if God is for us, who is on us - understand the tongues and repent, as God is with us, those who are able to submit, as God is with us, and if you can still packs of victory, you will be like God is with us, then, your love of God, with us God and we have no way to lose heart" . The last autocrat. Materials for the characteristics of Nicholas II. - in the book: Nicholas II. Materials for the characterization of personality and reign. Ed. magazine "Voice of the Past". M., 1917. p. 62. Life, prophecies and instructions of Seraphim of Sarov wonderworker. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Mgarsky Monastery. 2001, p. 182. The Psalter in the Patristic Explanation. Ed. Athos Russian Panteleimon Monastery. 1997, p. 245. N. D. Talberg. Russian story. From Catherine II to Nicholas II. "Chief man is completely Russian." Emperor Nicholas I in the light of historical truth. M., 2001, p. 508-512. Tatishchev S. S. Emperor Alexander II. His life and reign. M., 2006, p. 146. N. D. Talberg. Russian story. M., 2001, p. 399, 400, 496. There. With. 559. St. Dimitri Rostovsky. Cell chronicler. Holy Dormition Pochaev Lavra. 2007, p. 13. Ibid, p. 538. Life. pp. 226-231. |
Phenomenon Rev. Seraphim of Sarovsky in Diveevo (2002)
On the eve of the celebration of the uncovering of the relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov (08. 2002), the servant of God Nicholas, who arrived in Diveevo from Stavropol, had a miraculous appearance of St. Seraphim, who not only completely healed him of a kidney disease (with the instant disappearance of pain that had exhausted him for several years), but and said the following:
“Tell everyone what I say! The war will begin immediately after my holiday. As soon as the people subside from Diveevo, it will begin right away! But I'm not in Diveevo: I'm in Moscow. In Diveevo, having risen in Sarov, I will come alive together with the Tsar. The coronation of the Tsar to the kingdom will be in the Assumption Cathedral of Vladimir.
"According to God's will, the holy relics of Mother Alexandra should rest open in the monastery."
“Mother Alexandra will appear first; my orphans will come at night with singing, and they will take me to their new cathedral, and I will rest there.”
“You will have two cathedrals; my first cold cathedral will be much better than Sarov’s and they will envy us! And the second Kazan’s winter cathedral, after all, the Kazan church! worship and give it to us. And I tell you, my cathedral will be very good, but still not that marvelous cathedral that you will have by the end of a century. That will be a marvelous cathedral!
"A large, cold cathedral will be built and it will be warm. This Kazan church and the place will all be monastic, the parishioners will be given another place, and so the Kazan church, as it is, and the Nativity church, as it is, will remain, as it were, in the center, and there is still a lot of space around it they will seize the chapels by others, and a large, warm cathedral will come out of it and it will be a large extension like the Jerusalem temple.On the left side of the Nativity Church there will certainly be a chapel in the name of Michael the Archangel.The stone fence, as it is, will remain, only the Kazan Church will enter the fence and the wall will continue all the way to the shore"
"When we have a cathedral, then the Moscow bell Ivan the Great ("which stands on the ground, near the bell tower of Ivan the Great" - Comp.) will come to us by itself!"
"He himself will come to us through the air"
"He will come over to us, and everyone will be surprised. And when he strikes, the thousandth bell will ring in Sarov! .. Then it will be a miracle for everyone."
“When they hang him, but for the first time they hit him and he buzzes, then we will wake up! Oh! what joy it will be! In the middle of summer they will sing Easter! sides!"
"And it will buzz so that you will wake up and the whole universe will hear and be surprised."
“I, a wretched Seraphim, are supposed to live from the Lord for much more than a hundred years. (The Reverend departed to the Lord, having lived 73 years, 5 months and one day - Comp.) By that time, the Russian bishops will be so ungodly that even the most important dogma of the Christian Faith - They will not believe in the Resurrection of Christ and the general Resurrection, therefore, it is pleasing to the Lord God until the time of me, the wretched Seraphim, to take from this precarious life and then to affirm the dogma of the resurrection, resurrect me, and my resurrection will be like the resurrection of the seven youths in the cave of Okhlonskaya. After my resurrection, I will move from Sarov to Diveevo, where I will preach universal repentance.. And for this great miracle, people from all over the earth will gather in Diveevo, and there, preaching to them repentance, I will open the four relics"
“But, behold, there will be a miracle, such a miracle, - this is when the procession that now went from Diveevo to Sarov will go from Sarov to Diveev, “and to the people, as our Saint of God Reverend Seraphim used to say, that ears of corn will be in the field. That’s what will be miraculous, marvelous, wondrous.” “According to the promise of the Lord, the Great Elder Seraphim will rise for a while and rise from the tomb and walk from the Sarov desert to the village of Diveevo - and with the host of the Most High Family, Grand Duke, Royal, Imperial and Russian and foreign countless people, assuring everyone with his resurrection of the immutability and all people at the end of the ages of the general resurrection.
"Then Diveev will be a world wonder, for from him the Lord God will bring forth the Light of Salvation not only for Russia, but for the whole world in the time of the Antichrist"
"Four relics we have here (in the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin - Comp.) will rest! And this is the tomb of the relics will be with us"
"As the Lord opens the power, there will be great joy!"
“We will have four relics! What a joy it will be! In the middle of summer they will sing Easter! The Tsar and the whole family will come to us! Diveevo will be Lavra, Vertyanovo will be a city, and Arzamas will be a province! Everyone will come to us, we will lock ourselves up for rest; they will give money, just take it; they’ll start throwing them into the fence, but we don’t need it anymore, then there will be a lot of our own!”
"And as soon as the Royal Family visits us, then the whole of Diveev will be a wonder to the whole world! The village will no longer be here, but the city. And the whole land, and everything around us will be, and the inhabitants around us will all serve us!"
"Then everything will appear to you; like a source will flow from all sides! The people will look and wonder where it will come from!"
"Wonderful Diveevo will be! One monastery will be the Lavra, and the other will be the monastery!"
"There have not yet been and there are no examples of women's Lavra, but I, a wretched Seraphim, will have a Lavra in Diveyevo. The Lavra will be around, i.e. beyond the groove"
"But in the last time you will have abundance in everything, but then everything will end."
"But this joy will be for the shortest time: that there will be such sorrow further, which has not been from the beginning of the world!"
"Then life will be short. Angels will hardly have time to take souls!"
"I will open four relics and myself will lie fifth between them. But then the end of everything will come ..."
“After this secondary Father Seraphim of the Dormition, the village of Diveevo, having become the World Home, will be enlightened more than all, not only Russian, but also all cities in the world - for the light of the faith of Christ through this resurrection from the dead of the Great Elder Seraphim will be affirmed by the entire universe. Then with what greed, everyone will turn to all Orthodox sources to learn about the beginning and course of this diva of history, this 4th lot of the ecumenical Mother of God, the new world of Athos Women's Diveyevo Mountain; this place of salvation of the whole world in the time of Antichrist"
“When the age is over, first the Antichrist will remove the crosses from the temples and destroy the monasteries, and he will ruin all the monasteries! then; a groove will not allow anywhere, so away and go away!
"As soon as the Antichrist comes, he will pass everywhere, and this groove will not jump over!" (The groove will expand to the limits of the borders of the Russian - ed.)
“Whoever lives in Diveyevo with me, there is no reason for him to go anywhere, neither to Jerusalem, nor to Kyiv, go along the groove with a rosary, read one and a half hundred Mother of God, - here I have both Jerusalem and Kyiv!”
From the Chronicle of the Seraphim-Diveevo Monastery:“When Xenia Vasilievna came on the fortieth day after the death of Elena Vasilievna to Father Seraphim, on his orders, the elder, consoling his beloved churchwoman, said joyfully: “What fools you are, my joys! "We must rejoice; her soul fluttered like a dove, ascended to the Holy Trinity. The Cherubim and Seraphim and all the Heavenly Power parted before her! She is a servant of the Mother of God, mother! She is the maid of honor of the Queen of Heaven, mother! Only we should rejoice, and not we should cry! In time, her relics and those of Maria Semyonovna will openly rest in the monastery, for both of them pleased the Lord so much that they were worthy of incorruption! Oh, mother, how important obedience is! mine and told a little, but still for that when her relics are opened in the future, only her lips will be smoldered!”(Notes of Archpriest Sadovsky and N. A. Motovilov, testimony of Ksenia Vasilievna, who is still alive.)
Archimandrite Ippolit, Rylsk (conversation dated 2.8.2003)
You cannot rebuild the whole country in one day. The path of small victories will lead us to the achievement of any goal. And the beginning will be the land where our epic Russian hero Ilya Muromets comes from. And from there, Russia will go - bright, primordial throughout Russia: at first like a weak flame of a candle, and then it will turn into shining stars and a Holy cover all over the world.
Murom is located near Diveevo. It remains only to recall the prophecy about the resurrection of the Monk Seraphim of Sarov and about his beginning of the worldwide preaching of repentance in Diveevo.
Archpriest Fr. Alexy Mechev (+ 1923)
Two months before the death of Fr. An unfamiliar gentleman came to Alexy, referring to the recommendation of his aunt, who was well known to Father Alexy, and asked him to take him in. Father Alexy was ill with heart disease and was in bed, but nevertheless accepted him. from Moscow to his homeland, which had departed within the boundaries of another state, and came to ask Fr. Alexy's blessing for this step. Fr. Alexy willingly blessed him and quite unexpectedly said to him sharply: "Don't imagine that your job is to save Russia, none of your business. When the time comes, God will send the right people who will do this work and destroy the Bolsheviks just as a storm breaks a mast forest."
The meaning of the service of "these peoples" to the "king of Babylon" for 70 years is also explained (Jer. 25:11). More than 30 years ago, Bishop Vitaly of Canada (later Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia), who was touring his parishes, met an extraordinary old man who told him about the words the Lord had spoken to him in a thin dream:
Behold, I will magnify Orthodoxy in the Russian land, and from there it will shine on the whole world.
Lord, - I dared to object to the One who spoke to me, - how will it be when there is a commune.
The commune will disappear and scatter like dust in the wind.
But why does it exist now if it must disappear? I asked.
In order to make in Russia one people, with one heart and one soul, and, having cleansed it with fire, I will make it My people, the second Israel.
But here I dared to object:
Lord, but how can this be, when for so many years there people do not hear the word of God, they do not even have books, and they do not know anything about God?
It's good that they don't know anything; because when they hear the word of God, then they will receive it with all their heart, with all their soul. And here many of you go to church, but each believes in his own way and in his pride does not accept the pure Orthodox faith. Woe to them, for they are preparing themselves to be burned. So I will stretch out My right hand and Orthodoxy from Russia will shine on the whole world, and the time will come when the children there will carry stones on their shoulders for the construction of temples. My hand is strong and there is no such power either in heaven or on earth that would resist it.
Rev. Lawrence of Chernigov (+ 1950)
It is not difficult to be saved in recent times, but it is wise. Whoever overcomes all these temptations will be saved! He will be among the first. The former will be like lamps, and the latter will be like the sun.
Russian people will repent of mortal sins: that they allowed Jewish wickedness in Russia, that they did not protect the Anointed of God Tsar, Orthodox churches and monasteries and all Russian saints. They despised piety and loved demonic wickedness. But there will be a spiritual explosion! And Russia, together with all the Slavic peoples and lands, will form a mighty Kingdom. Will feed him Orthodox Tsar God's Anointed. Thanks to him, all schisms and heresies will disappear in Russia. There will be no persecution of the Orthodox Church. The Lord will have mercy on Holy Russia because it already had a terrible time before Antichrist. The Russian Orthodox Tsar-Autocrat will be afraid even of the Antichrist himself. And all other countries, except Russia and the Slavic lands, will be under the rule of the Antichrist and will experience all the horrors and torments written in the Holy Scriptures. In Russia same there will be a flourishing of faith and rejoicing but only for a short time, for the Terrible Judge will come to judge the living and the dead.
Archpriest Vladislav Shumov (+ 01.10.1996)
With. Obukhovo, Solnechnogorsk district, Moscow region
Elder Vladislav did not bless the pilgrims to travel to Diveevo. He told them:
Do not go to the monastery in Diveevo now: the relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov are not there!
Prot. Nikolay Guryanov (+ 24.08.2002)
Don't forget: Tsar Nicholas saved us with 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.
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... There will be no Tsar, there will be no Russia! Russia must realize that without God - not to the threshold, without the Tsar - as without a father. 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 grant Russia His Chosen 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!
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 cries for us, but the people do not even think about him!.. The wounds on the body of Russia do not heal from such misunderstanding and impenitence. We must pray, fast and repent...
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 pervasive. 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.
In 2002, not long before his death, in response to a question about the Russian Tsar, Father Nikolai said, “The Tsar is coming!”
Blessed old woman Pelagia of Ryazan (+ 1966)
There will be a time in Russia when all churches will open. But then the temples will serve as a spectacle for the people. The people will not know how to pray, and the people will be idols. He who prays little, coldly, sluggishly, somehow, without the fear of God, is an idol. Previously, the Clergy prepared the people for heaven, but now - for hell! The priesthood and the people do not know how to cross themselves! Most Clergy do not have a Spiritual Mind; God and the people do not love! Everything has been done so that the people pray carelessly, somehow, although all the power in Sign of the Cross! Most of the Clergy want to create a special "church" according to human reason, so as not to glorify the Heavenly Christ!
The saints do not want to glorify the legitimate Tsar! This is a departure from the decree of the Holy Spirit, which will never be forgiven! The masters themselves shortened their oath to the Anointed of God, so as not to serve the Tsar and not to teach this to the people! Doesn't the Clergy know that this can't be done?! They know, but they do it on purpose! The Pre-Antichrist Priesthood will almost all perish - eternal fire! Arius' stomach opened and his intestines fell out - through the prayer of St. Athanasius the Great. Here was a prayer book before God! And the current clergy thinks highly of themselves, but what abyss they are going into?! ONLY they have to humble themselves and start glorifying the King of Heaven and His Anointed Ones - everything will turn upside down, and life will come - honey and milk! It is possible to save the world from the Antichrist, everything is in the hands of the (Russian) Bishops, but they are for godless power!
Soon embellishments will make women look like demons! The pre-Tikhrist time is coming when the people will finally lose that very mind, without which the soul cannot be saved. The time has come for the distortion of the image of God! And again I will say - this is the fault of the silent clergy! After all, if you become a Priest, it means that you yourself take full responsibility for the morality of your people and you will answer to God for the death of human souls!
The Russian people will be strangled by all means! And Adventists - the satanic faith - the green light! Bishops will allow Seventh-day Adventists to preach with us, who screw hell and deny Life-Giving Cross! For this, terrible troubles will befall Russia, many cities will be destroyed by the Lord Himself, although all the Temples will be opened.
AT end times for every Christian there will be a hundred or more sorcerers! Oh what a passion! Do not come close to book and newspaper kiosks! How many books of sorcery and sorcery under the guidance of Jews are published all over the world?! Soon they will lie in piles with us! What will happen on Russian soil?! What sorrow is coming upon us ahead?! Sorcery will cover all of Russia! Previously, Paris was a satanic lair! From there, magic books were brought to us. That's what our rich went for! Later Warsaw was - the lair of Satan! We made a nest closer to Russia. Now Petersburg has become a satanic lair! So much sorcery has been brought into it that it will fail and the sea will form in this place! What will happen to Russia, what troubles will befall it?! What will happen to Moscow? – In an instant underground! What about St. Petersburg? - That's the name of the sea! Kazan and other cities will be in the bowels of the earth!
The authorities will change, there will be reforms before the Antichrist... And now these... communists will be back!... What a capitalist, what a communist, everyone takes care of himself... Only the Tsar cares about the people. God will choose him!
There will be three great miracles: the first miracle - in Jerusalem - the resurrection from the dead of the Holy Patriarch Enoch and the Holy Prophet Elijah on the third day after they were killed by the Antichrist! the second miracle - in the Holy Trinity St. Sergius Lavra; resurrect, after the accession of the Antichrist, Reverend Sergius Radonezh. He will rise from the shrine, reach the Assumption Cathedral before everyone's eyes, and then ascend to Heaven! There will be a sea of tears here! Then there will be nothing to do in the monastery, there will be no Grace! And the third miracle will be in Sarov. The Lord will resurrect the Reverend Seraphim of Sarov, who will be alive - a decent amount of time. Whoever wants to see him alive! Oh, how many miracles will be then! The relics of the Reverend Father Seraphim are in Moscow with a pious old woman. The Angel of the Lord, when necessary, tells her to turn to the First Hierarch and say that she has the Relics of St. Seraphim. These Holy relics will bear on the shoulders through Kashira along the Volgograd road through Mikhailov to Tambov, and from there to Sarov. Father Seraphim will be resurrected in Sarov from the dead! At the time when his relics will be carried, the people will be in darkness, and a great many of the sick will be healed! About his resurrection in Sarov will be announced on radio and television, and the people will be - innumerable! From Sarov, Seraphim will go to the Diveevo monastery on foot. He will be accompanied by the last Sovereign with the Royal Priesthood and the sea of people ... On the way to Diveevo, the Monk Seraphim will work many miracles, and in Diveevo too! He will expose the Clergy of betrayal and betrayal of the Anointed of God-King, will preach Repentance to the whole world. Seraphim of Sarov will explain the whole story, tell everything and will denounce the Shepherds like babies, show them how to be baptized, and much more! Even Jews will believe in Father Seraphim, and through this - in the Lord Jesus Christ! Imagine a picture of the sun shining all over the world!
Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church will depart from the truth Orthodox Faith, will not believe the Prophecies of the Resurrection of Russia! To denounce them, the Monk Seraphim of Sarov will be resurrected from the dead. After so many wondrous miracles, the new clergy will have devotion to the Lord: they will teach the people to serve the Father-King with all their hearts! Jews who have not accepted the seal will issue cruel laws against sorcery, which they themselves are now planting; and they themselves will destroy all the sorcerers to the last.
All the evil that will be concentrated in Russia will be swept away by the Chinese.
More to come Defender of the Faith - King - smartest person... Prepared by God Himself!
The Antichrist will appear from America. And the whole world will bow to him, except for the Royal Orthodox Church, which will first be in Russia! And then the Lord will give His little flock victory over the Antichrist and his kingdom! "The cross is the power of the Tsars. By this you will conquer"!
Bishop Seraphim (Zvezdinsky, 1883-1937)
The bishop spoke to the Diveyevo sisters (winter 1926/1927):"You misunderstand the words of the monk. The Monk Seraphim taught to read "Virgin Mother of God, rejoice" one and a half hundred times and said whoever fulfills this rule will not be overcome by the Antichrist's soul."
"This one groove will always stand up for you, becoming a fiery wall up to the sky! And even the Antichrist will not be able to cross it!" (The groove will expand to the borders of the Russian state - ed.)
"The groove will be a wall to you up to heaven, and when the Antichrist comes, he will not be able to cross it; she will cry out to the Lord for you and will stand up to heaven and will not let him go!"
"I think that the eighth thousand will pass. I think that it will pass! Everything will pass and end. And the cloisters will be destroyed, and the wretched Seraphim in Diveevo will have a Bloodless sacrifice until the very day of the coming of Christ!"
“At the end of the world, the whole earth will burn, and nothing will remain. Only three churches around the world, from all over the world, will be taken entirely, undestroyed, to heaven: one in the Kyiv Lavra, another (I really don’t remember), and the third - something yours, Kazanskaya.
Schema-nun Nila (+ 1999)
AT last years life, and especially after the collapse of the country, mother, with heartache and grief, worried and worried about the events taking place in Russia. But with what strength of conviction and hope she prayed for her beloved Fatherland! More than once she said to her spiritual children who came to her:
Children, the Mother of God will not leave Russia, She loves Russia, will protect her, save her. Russia is the country of the Mother of God, and She will not let her be destroyed, she will intercede for us. After all, she loves Russia so much! Russia will rise and become a great spiritual country.
It will not allow enemies to trample Russia, will not let it burn in the flames of fires!
Rev. Seraphim Vyritsky (+ 1949)
A time will come when there will be a spiritual dawn in Russia. Many churches and monasteries will open, even non-Christians will come to us to be baptized. But this is not for a long time for fifteen years. When the East gains strength, everything will become unsustainable. The time will come when Russia will be torn apart. First they will divide it, and then they will begin to rob wealth. The West will contribute in every possible way to the destruction of Russia and will give up its eastern part to China before the time comes.
The old man loved the youth very much. At that time, young people hardly went to church, and he was so happy when they came to him. The old man talked about huge role young in the future revival of the Church. He said that there would come a time when the corruption and decadence of the morals of the young would reach its last limits. Almost no one will remain uncorrupted. They will consider that everything is permitted to them to satisfy their whims and lusts, because they will see their impunity. They will gather in companies, gangs, they will steal, debauchery. But there will come a time when will be the voice of God, when young people will understand that it is impossible to live like this, and they will go to faith in different ways, the desire for asceticism will increase. Those who were previously sinners, drunkards, will fill the churches, feel a great attraction to spiritual life, many of them will become monks, monasteries will open, churches will be full of believers and the majority will be young people. And then the young will go on pilgrimages to holy places - it will be a glorious time! The fact that they sin now - they will repent so hotly. Just as a candle, before it goes out, flares up brightly, illuminating everything with its last light, so does the life of the Church. And that time is near.
A thunderstorm will pass over the Russian Land.
The Lord will forgive the Russian people their sins
And the Holy Cross of divine beauty
On God's temples will shine again.
Monasteries everywhere will be reopened
And faith in God will unite everyone
And the bell ringing of all our Holy Russia
From sinful sleep to salvation will awaken.
Dangerous hardships subside
Russia will defeat its enemies.
And the name of the Russian, Great People
Like thunder throughout the universe will rumble!
The legend of the prophet Isaiah about the coming years
The thirty-seventh king named Gordius, and nicknamed Chigochin, will rise from the Sunny City as a half-Christian-half-pagan and will gather the entire land of Ishmael. Overseas people will be called Fuskas, and nicknamed wild donkeys, the many-named grandchildren of Hagar, the Jewish tribe of Moses. And they will occupy the whole country and cities, they will come to the field called Sredetsky, and they will find there a two-mouthed well. And from the city of Sredets they will begin to seize the countries of the east and west, to the North and to the South. And no one can resist them. And Chigochin will ruin the land of Bulgaria and Greece, like a tormentor, in seven years. Then the Greeks will perish across the sea, and the Bulgarians in the West. They will remain only in glorious cities, mountains, gorges and caves. And these days Vitosha and other glorious mountains will be covered with darkness. And clouds will envelop the Holy Mountain, and Tsargrad will blaze, as if from fire. And Chigochin torments the whole earth, and in those countries people will weep, crying: "Oh, woe to us, brethren, for we will die in agony!"
And the thirty-eighth king from the sunset will descend in the years of Tsar Chigochin, from the land of Sarova, named Hagen, and nicknamed Dress. He will reign for five years, he will be meek and a brave warrior. And the Christians will come to him weeping. He will rise, as one who has risen from the dead, with a thorn in his eye, and will gather the western warriors and the Pomeranians. And he will take with him thirty-seven chests of gold and purple like a star. And he will come, tame the fair-bearded ones, and go to the land of Bulgaria. He will be the first to meet in the power of Chigochin on the Oveche field the army of the Skoplsky army and will break it and take their weapons. And King Hagen will arm his soldiers and again go to Chigochin. Then the Ishmaelites will meet him on the Gorokhov field and smash him. And they will burn his army like straw in the field, and he himself will flee to Zempengrad. And the Ishmaelites will scatter and ravage the whole land of Bulgaria.
Then Tsar Hagen will send a message to Tsar Chigochin: "Stop the robberies and get out with the Ishmaelites, otherwise we will not leave you alone!" And King Hagen will stay in Earth for three months, praying to God, until he gathers four tens of thousands of his soldiers. And he will go again to the Ishmaelites in the area called Five Graves. And there will be great bloodshed, and the soldiers of King Hagen will perish, and he himself will flee to Pernik. And King Hagen will stay in Pernik for thirty days, praying to God and crying. Then the Lord's soldiers will appear to him - patriarchs and bishops, monks and presbyters, and will go with him to the mountain called Vitosha, where the holy fathers from the land of Bulgaria live.
Then a holy maiden, beautiful in body, will come out and bring out three hundred holy fathers. And she will lead King Hagen by the right hand and bless him. And he will go out with an honest cross against the Ishmaelites and create the greatest slaughter where there is a double-mouthed well. So much blood will be shed that a three-year-old horse will drown in it. King Hagen will kill the Ishmaelites, as if the Lord will strike them with an invisible club. And he will kill Tsar Chigochin, and he will take the booty and distribute it. And first he will stay in Sredets for three years and four months.
Then some heirs of Chigochin from the West will come out like shameless snakes and go to the Sheep Field with many forces. Then Tsar Hagen will go to the Sheep Field, having gathered all the Bulgarian power. And the warriors of King Hagen flock to the sheep field. And that mother will be wise who will keep her son, for they will mow those people like field grass! And people will say: "Oh, woe to us, brethren, for the land of Bulgaria has perished without a trace. And so many people remain that they can fit under the canopy of one oak tree." And then Hagen will come from the Sheep field to the Edrilo field, and the greatest slaughter and much bloodshed will take place here, so that from that time this place will not be called Edrilo, but will be glorified as the Bone Field. And King Hagen will fall here, and with him more than a thousand thousand souls. And people will say: "Oh, woe to us, for the whole world is lost!"
And in those years the Ishmaelites will come out of the northern country. And two parts of them will come to the city of Thessalonica, and the third will remain in their land and wish to be baptized, for the Lord will love the Ishmaelites. Then they will begin to besiege Thessalonica, and the Thessalonians will come out against the Hungarians, and kill the enemies, and their weapons will be burned instead of firewood for three years.
Then the thirty-ninth king, named Simeon the Wise, will sail on ships by sea, and he will take the land of Bulgaria. And he will arrive in New Jerusalem, and will reach the Golden Gate, and will enter into them. And he will linger in the Golden Gate and enter the treasury. And trouble will cover all Jerusalem, and people will overshadow each other with the cross. And they will come to the Golden Gate, but the Lord will see their arrogance and folly and will strike them. And Simeon the Wise will fall on his knees and say:
"O New Jerusalem, how faith has multiplied around you!" And Simeon will stay in the kingdom for six years.
And then the Lord will send a king, and he will become the fortieth God-given king, and his name is Michael. And here he will take the kingdom over the whole universe, And, having risen, he will go to the throne, where the virgin holds the crown of the pious and faithful Tsar Constantine. And God will put a crown on the head of Michael, and grant him fifty-three years of life. There will be joy and merriment under this king, and a long life, such as has not happened since the beginning of the world. King Michael will come in these days to consecrate the holy churches, and he will erect silver altars, and he will give people knives instead of weapons. And he will forge weapons into handicraft tools, and swords into sickles. And there will be miserable people - like boyars, boyars - like governors, and governors - like kings. Then people will be scattered all over the earth. And only those who died will achieve nothing these days. And in the years of Tsar Michael, a barrel of wine will come out of one vine, a measure of wheat from a sheaf, an armful of wool from a sheep, there will be an abundance of honey and oil. And people and cattle will multiply in these days, and there will be no death, no war, no robbery.
And in those years, one old woman will move from the sunrise, and the other from the West, and they will meet in Likice. And they will find human head and they will sit here, mourning her, for three days and three nights, saying: "O beloved head! Arise, for there is a lot of good life around, but there is no one to live." Then they will get up and go through five races, and find the place where the earth has cast out its gifts. And they will sit for seven more days, weeping and saying:
"O beloved children, why did you destroy yourself in your hardness of heart, for there is a lot of life around, and there is no one to live, the human race has decreased." And there will be an abundance of everything in those summers, there will be joy and fun.
And in these days Tsar Michael will saddle his horse, and go by sea to Rome with one sword, and say to the Romans: "Open the gate before me!" They will answer him: "We will not unlock the gate, for you are a deceiver!" He will wave his sword, but will not strike, and the copper gates will crumble like dust. Then the Roman bishops and monks, patriarchs and priests, will come out, laying down their books before Michael and being baptized on his royal crown. And a simple clerk will be found, and he will argue with them with the wisdom of the book, and will say to them: "It is fitting for him to reign while the sun illuminates the earth." They will take the book and hit that deacon on the head, and he will die and lie in bed for three days. And on the third day God will return this deacon's soul. And the Lord will say to him:
"Arise and go to the monastery of the holy Apostle Paul, find in the coffin a porphyry crown and an undefiled robe, and lay them on Michael."
The Romans will see this, and Michael will inspire them with great fear and great honor. And they will begin to talk about it, pouring gold, like grain on a threshing floor, and pouring a hill. And Michael will sit down from it on his horse, and for eleven years he will march throughout the world, establishing faith and law with his sword. And again he will return home to New Jerusalem and tame the fair-bearded. And the years of his life will be fifty-three.
And in the years of Michael the Tsar, a bird will appear, beautiful green, sit on the Tsargrad wall and turn into a nun. And under the rule of Tsar Michael, the ungodly Antichrist will be born, and he will be more beautiful than all the beauty of the human race. And his eyes will be like stars.
Then Michael will go to the throne, put his crown under the cross and commit his soul to the Lord. Then invisible angels will receive him and carry his body to heaven. Then the Antichrist will begin to torture Christians with terrible malice. One will exhaust the guts on a club, pierce others with thorns, and set fire to others and ask:
"Where are those who believed in books and in honest cross"And all flesh will cry to God, and the Lord will hear the cries of faithful people and will send Elijah the prophet and Enoch to fight the Antichrist, so that he does not tempt the whole world. In those days the Kingdom of Judah will rise, and the Christians will decrease. And they will become last first, and the first last.
Then Elijah will begin to quarrel with the Antichrist, saying to him: "You are a seducer!" He will be furious and in anger he will create a bronze altar, he will introduce Elijah and Enoch into it and stab him. As the prophet David said:
"Then they will offer calves on your altar." Then the Lord will erect an honest cross, call the apostles, evangelists and all the elect who pleased God, and holy churches, and graves overshadowed by crosses from all over the earth. And the Lord will send them to Jerusalem, and set fire to the earth. And the earth will burn, like it the mountains will burn, like houses. As the prophet David said: "He touches the mountains and smokes." Then the sea will boil like water in a pot. And so the whole sea will burn up in three years, only the land will remain, from which the Jordan flows.
Then the Lord will release four great winds, and they will scatter the ashes throughout the earth up and down. Then the Lord will reveal two springs whiter than snow - one from the East and the other from the West. And they will flow over all the earth, and the earth will be smooth as paper, and more beautiful than the present light, and seven times whiter. And the earth will lie for three years and cry out to God: "Look after me, Lord, have mercy, for for many years I have been lying, untouched, like a seven-year-old girl, purer than anything in the world. I have been cleansed of all filth."
Then the Lord will descend from heaven through the clouds in great power and glory to the place called Huki. And the holy churches will converge like shining stars, each in its place. And many angels and archangels will come down, the darkness of those, twelve legions, carrying the throne of the Lord, shining seven times brighter than the sun. And the Lord Himself will appear from heaven to judge the living and the dead.
Then the archangel Michael and the twelve apostles will sound on the turium horn. And they will wake up those who sleep from the beginning of the age. As the prophet said:
"Thou send forth Thy spirit, they are created, and Thou renew the face of the earth." Then they will rise, as if from a dream, and will walk the earth, recognizing each other. Then the angels will come and separate the good from the bad. And they will put the good at the right hand, and the sinners at the left. Then the King will say to those at his right hand: "Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." And he will also say to those who are standing on the left side: "Depart from me, you cursed, into eternal fire..."
Then the Antichrist will stand on the left side, with the Jews, with great anger and trembling, for it is said that "His blood is on us and on our children." And their angels, merciless and fierce, will plunge them into outer darkness, as the prophet said: "Their memory perished with us, but the Lord remains forever."
And then the Lord speaks to the sinners: “O cursed ones, how did you not understand the years of Satan, why did you not believe My prophets, who foretold that in the first year there would be a lot of bread and wine. In the second year you will not find a handful of bread, nor a cup of wine for all the earth, but those days will be shortened for the sake of the elect. His kingdom will be three years, and God will make these three years like three months, three months like three weeks, and three weeks like three days, and three days like three hours, but three hours are like three dashes, and three dashes are like the twinkling of an eye. You did not understand this, but you betrayed God."
Then the Lord will take the honest cross, the Gospel and the Apostle, and condemn sinners to the twelfth generation. And the Lord will reign for endless years, and there will be no death, no marriage, no violence. And there will be neither young, nor old, nor young, but they will all be one in form and age, all equal to thirty years. And there will be neither jealousy nor envy, but then there will be perfect love and joy in God our Savior.
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Bulgarian legend of the 11th century. First published according to the list of the 15th century. in "Starobulgaristika". Sofia. 1983. No. 4. S. 68-73. Published according to: "Gold-string spring. Monuments of Bulgarian literature of the IX-XVIII centuries". Translation by I.Kaliganov and D.Polyvyanny. M. 1990. S. 267-272.
