TASS/. The Russian Orthodox Monastery of St. Panteleimon, or Rossikon, on Mount Athos is not planning to close its mission in Moscow, Hierodeacon Filosof, the monastery’s deputy father superior ...

St Panteleimon’s was the only one of the peninsula’s 20 monasteries that was formally under Russian control. (There were a couple of other vast Russian houses on Athos, dedicated to Saint ...

Being situated in the town of Sergiev Posad about 70 km to the north-east from Moscow, it is the most important working Russian monastery and a residence of the Patriarch. This religious and military ...

After that, some Athonite monasteries, including the Russian Monastery of St. Panteleimon, refused to allow the OCU delegation to visit them. According to a TASS source, two monks from the ...

He and Russian Ivankovich were said to have hatched a plot to blow up the Metropolitan’s quarters at the Sretensky Monastery in Moscow. They had collected explosives and Ukrainian passports ...

Russian Orthodoxy was promoted and Catholic monasteries were closed. Often, the Orthodox Church would take over former Catholic Churches. Until 1891 Finland had its own parliament, laws and ...

Renata Shakirova was born in Tashkent, Republic of Uzbekistan, on April 5, 1995. She graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet (2015). She received the award of the Union of Theatre ...