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There were many saints in ancient Rus'. People who received holiness were distinguished by their deeds and creations for the people of Rus'.
Let's look at 10 famous saints of Rus'.
1. Prince Vladimir.
The prince received his rank thanks to the baptism of Rus'. I consider this the most important thing that he did for the people. With his baptism he strengthened relations with European countries.
Thanks to the baptist, Rus' chose the Orthodox faith.
2. Prince Alexander Nevsky
There is not a single defeat of a miracle worker in history. He was able to make life easier for the Russian people from the attacks of the horde.
He also united the lands and gave them new life and prosperity.
3. Metropolitan Alexy
Without going into details, we can say that thanks to Metropolitan Alexy, Moscow acquired the status of a capital. He developed the city and enriched it.
4. Painter Andrei Rublev
The painter is responsible for the creation of a unified style in icons, which are highly valued in world art today. He is considered the founder of depicting deity through painting.
5. Prince Yaroslav the Wise
During the reign of the prince, Rus' had its own metropolitan.
He was also able to found schools that were attached to churches.
Prince Yaroslav the Wise reduced the first laws in Rus' to a heap.
6. Admiral Fedor Ushakov
Out of 43 battles he never lost. Thanks to the admiral, the first schools teaching the art of war on water appeared in Rus'.
Ushakov was a deeply righteous man, which gave him the title of the Righteous.
7. John the Warrior
Despite the fact that he was a military man in Rome, he converted to Christianity and invested all his money in the development and construction of the church in Rus'.
When praying, people turn to him for salvation from theft.
8. Nikolai Ugodnik
A deeply religious man who did good to people and helped save the wrongly convicted.
Also in history you can find information that he gave gifts on Christmas Eve.
9. Ksenia Petersburgskaya
She is known for her beneficial influence on sales in the shops she enters. Ksenia Petersburgskaya loved her husband very much, and after he left for a better world, she wore his clothes and told people that she died, not her husband.
10. Feofan Vyshensky
Also had the name Theophan the Recluse. Although he was a recluse, he helped people a lot, and also wrote many texts that are still interesting to read in our time.
There are a lot of saints in Rus' and everyone contributed to the development and further prosperity of the state. There are also saints who are mentioned in the chronicles, but there is no specific information about them.
How Rus' became Holy
The founders of Russian holiness include Sergius of Radonezh. He was the pioneer of the konoviya (monastic hostel) with a very strict charter. He carried out his obedience sternly: he spoke little, prayed tirelessly, and if he spoke, it was only about business.
An aura of respect and holiness was created around the monasteries. Each monastery was a church and a hospital, a school and a library. It was Father Sergius who called for the unity of all believers not by nationality, but by spirituality. People began to believe that Orthodox Rus' would live forever, helping itself, its holiness would be indestructible.
HOLY PROTECTORS OF Rus'
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You often hear announcements about children's competitions, Olympiads, and festivals. Another question is that parents (who hear these announcements) can be divided into two groups: those who will die so that their child becomes a participant (alas, there are few of them), and those who will remain indifferent and give up: they say, what do we care? , do you need more than everyone else? The question is clear: what do all these competitions change in our lives? And why waste energy, nerves, time, when it’s easier, as usual, to leave the child in front of the TV with cartoons (and not bored, and seemingly busy)? The story of the organizer of the all-Russian competition “Patron Saints of Rus'” Alina Barinova turned out to be unexpected.
Information In Russia, a children's creative competition “The Patron Saints of Rus'” is being held. All children under the age of 16 are encouraged to participate. This year’s theme is “The Humble Warrior,” the Holy Great Martyr George the Victorious. Essays, essays, and creative works will be accepted for consideration until November 15, 2010. Details on the official website of the competition https://www.detisavve.ru/
Small car on Tverskaya
Every day she visited four post offices in the Tverskaya area. At first, postal employees perceived her as a strange person, to say the least, because the miniature city car had to be filled to capacity with parcels, letters and parcels, so Alina sat behind the wheel, bending down very much. Then we got used to it.
Returning to the courtyard of the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery together with two assistants, she unloaded what she had brought, literally filling the room from top to bottom. Thousands of drawings were laid out directly on the floor, and essays written in crooked childish handwriting were stacked in piles. And then honored artists (Georgy Yudin, Vasily Nesterenko, spouses Philip and Zinaida Surov), writers (Vladimir Krupin, Konstantin Kovalev-Sluchesvsky), priests (Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov) came and cried... in all seriousness. The work was in full swing, and from different corners one could hear every now and then: “Oh, Lord, how can I choose? They're all so good."
Thus, in 2007, the competition “Saints of Rus'” began. Three years have passed, and now the children themselves post the texts of their essays on the competition website, and they also send pictures of their works, which are then reviewed by the jury. The number of members of the organizing committee, jury, and experts has greatly expanded - there are about thirty of them. “Since the stars light up, it means someone needs it,” the poet wrote. Since the competition is developing, it means there is something for and in the name of something.
“In general, it all started more than spontaneously,” says Alina Barinova, the organizer and inspirer of the competition. — The Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery was preparing for the 600th anniversary of the repose of St. Savva Storozhevsky. A figure, perhaps quiet, and even modest, but very important for Russian history.
If you were to visit the monastery on Sunday, the first thing you would encounter there would be children. Cheerful, funny, they scurry back and forth, run, play, and pray in the temple. There are a lot of them. On Sundays there are a lot of children in all churches, but I have never seen anything like in the monastery. There is also a shelter for boys here. So we started thinking about how to attract children to our holiday. Moreover, I immediately wanted to involve unchurched children as well. And since the celebrations took place with the support of the Patriarch, the State Duma and the administration of the Moscow region, we quickly managed to get together, develop ideas, and most importantly, have time to send out distributions to the regions and dioceses. The response was colossal. So we tried, we announced that all participants who send drawings with scenes from the life of St. Savva Storozhevsky or write a creative essay on this topic will receive certificates, and the best works will not be included in a brochure with photographs of smiling children, wearing flowers and gifts, but will become an illustration for the book of the saint’s life. The main thing that we set as our goal was to teach children to invest in something serious and important.
Savva Storozhevsky. Savin Ivan, 8 years old, Moscow region. What can I know?
As often happens, problems began almost immediately after the results of the competition were announced and the book was published. Angry parents called, whose children cried for weeks when, for some reason, they did not receive certificates from the participants, dissatisfied teachers wrote, who at first perceived the competition as an obligation imposed from above. So, one teacher wrote: “What is this, they come up with competitions, but what do you tell me to do? How to write an essay on the topic “No to drugs.” A? I'm asking you? Or, they also thought “Open Heart. Elizaveta Feodorovna.” How can I even know about her?”
“Of course, it was difficult, first of all technically,” Alina recalls. “In the first year, more than six thousand letters were printed, each of which my assistants and I signed by hand. Sometimes the post office failed, sometimes the parents themselves, who inattentively filled out letters with a return address: either they forgot to indicate the house, or the apartment. I had to call, find out details, console the children.
Don't catch birds, catch people. Savin Konstantin, 4 years old, Moscow region.
The story with the teacher ultimately turned out to be a happy one and resulted not only in essays, but also in amazing material, which was later published in the magazine “Savvinskoe Slovo”. She finally decided to teach a lesson dedicated to the Grand Duchess. I sent the children to the libraries, and a week later, during an open lesson, amazing arguments and dialogues arose between the children. For example: “And yet I don’t understand why they killed such a woman?” — said the seventh-grader, to which her desk neighbor replied: “What’s incomprehensible here? If you want to destroy faith, you must first destroy people.”
Now we are thinking about how and with what to reward teachers, real creative people who change our children, truly forcing them to think, reason, reflect on today and on the history of their country,” continues Alina. — You see, when a person approaches a task with soul and interest, it is always so visible and felt. I want to encourage this, I need to be grateful for this. After all, it is parents and teachers who determine the creative life of a child. They are the ones who are able to be the first to respond to the question of their child or student, they can suggest the direction of the search, tell something of themselves, or simply read it. And if a child is unlucky with a teacher, especially literature, how noticeable it is! When reading creative works, you no longer cry from tenderness and happiness, but from regret - after all, the child turns out to be completely incapable of creating at least something independent and interesting. Without a twinge of conscience, he rewrites well-known texts, adding his signature. When fifteen-year-olds do this, they can be understood - this is an ugly way to adapt and survive, but when an eight-year-old child cheats, they can only throw up their hands and call their parents.
All this means that the child was not taught to open up, it was not explained to him that work should be done in such a way that his “I”, his soul, his experiences stand behind it.
Sheets used
The geography of the competition is expanding every day. And now not only Moscow and the Moscow region, but also the Kirov and Lipetsk regions and the Far East are participating in it. You can talk for a long time about the crisis in the country, about the budget deficit, and talk about government assistance and support for families whose incomes are below the subsistence level. But it is precisely competitions like this that reveal the fact that Russia is alive with people: proactive, passionate, ready to change, and there is no point in attributing failures and mistakes to the state.
In one of the final rounds of the competition, the winner was a drawing of a girl sent by a teacher from the outback. The jury highly appreciated the work and asked to send the original. And then something terrible happened. The work turned out to be spoiled, or rather, not suitable for printing. It was made on the back of a used drawing sheet. The organizers immediately rushed to call. “How can this be, you knew that work had won, but was it really possible to do this to it, to spoil it?” - they said into the telephone receiver. “Forgive me for God’s sake, but, you see,” they answered at the other end of the line, “this girl is from a low-income family. She always comes to my art classes unprepared and brings nothing with her. So I give her the turns. He draws well."
Rescue of the king. Alena Kroshnena, 9 years old, Republic of Karelia.
Later, the organizers of the competition find out that the teacher is now using her own money to buy this girl everything she needs to draw. Moreover, he conducts a free lesson once a week. Every time, behind a child’s drawing, behind his composition there is not only an amazing fate, how else could it be? Behind them are people to whom this child is important.
One day, two boys (wards of an orphanage for the blind) came to Moscow to receive prizes along with other winners. Two talented works of the guys were highly appreciated by the jury and received special prizes. Imagine the surprise of the organizers when they saw in front of them children who were completely unable to move unaccompanied. It turned out that their vision was preserved by only 20%.
The competition involves not only schools and orphanages, but also hospitals and cancer centers, where the organizers come after receiving invitations from charitable foundations. Of course, sick children have the hardest time, but this at least somehow changes their reality and fills their lives with moments of happiness.
We won't give up our mother! Arrest of Grand Duchess Elizabeth. Bekhmetyeva Pelageya, 8 years old, Orenburg region.
How do heroes appear?
Reverend Savva of Storozhevsky, Holy Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna, St. Alexy, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Rus', Wonderworker, now St. George the Victorious. The names of the saints who became heroes of competitions are not accidental. The jury members got together and discussed who exactly this year it would be important for children to learn about and whose fate it would be worth thinking about. In the year of the 90th anniversary of the death of the royal family, it was decided to turn to the figure of Elizabeth Feodorovna, about whom little was spoken then. In connection with the death of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II, we thought that children should learn about his heavenly patron, Metropolitan Alexy. In 2010, on the 65th anniversary of the victory, we need to talk about the holy warrior St. George the Victorious.
“You know,” continues Alina Barinova, “in church-going families it is customary to talk about death and heroic deeds, but in most non-religious families it is still not the case.” Yes, when we started the competition, we just wanted to draw attention to the figure of St. Savva, we hoped that the children would remember at least something, and maybe in the future, in their adult life, some of what they learn now will emerge. But when we plunged into the competition, we realized that we wanted to study the history of our fatherland (about which in school it is not customary to say “Orthodox”) together with the children. After all, studying it, we discover so many examples of service to the Motherland that even life is not enough to know - if you don’t teach love in childhood. And the sooner a child encounters these figures, the better it will be for both his personality and the country as a whole.
School education is designed to memorize facts and is far from creativity and reflection. But I am convinced that everything that remains in us forever, everything that is deeply rooted and penetrated, comes through art, emotions, feelings, self-expression. This is exactly what we are betting on. We want creativity to become the basis, the right beginning of a child’s education. And we hope that the competition can help with this. Now, perhaps you have noticed, everyone is rushing to learn - no, not Russian, but English, Chinese. Only a frankly lazy child does not have an English tutor. When I ask my friends what their children are reading, it turns out that it is exciting science fiction. At night, adults choose what to read themselves. It’s scary when people of the older generation don’t understand: if a child doesn’t know his roots, he won’t grow up to be a strong personality.
The result is beautiful books, on beautiful paper, decorated with the best children's work. Rarity. I believe that even after a hundred years people will not stop loving what is made with soul. Russia will remain a cultural country. I believe they will keep Grandpa's album. You can't fool them
More and more young people are joining the competition’s expert group: artists, designers, philologists, religious scholars. They come at the invitation of the organizing committee from the best universities in the country. All of them, to the surprise of the organizers, turn out to be not only smart, educated, active people, but also churchgoers.
“You know, I am grateful to these guys,” says the head of the competition, “and most of all to our permanent jury members.” I couldn’t even imagine that they, all so important (members of the union of artists, emeritus and professors, vice-presidents of various academies and unions, constantly on business trips, at meetings, immersed in their own creative work), like children, would respond to the request participate (and will stay with us), that they will come, argue, spend hours looking through and proofreading work, and worry about the matter. Every time I catch myself thinking: if this is so, then everything is fine, it means we are doing a big and important thing. You can't fool them!
History of the term
The history of this term originated in oral folk epic. In fairy tales and epics, legends and poems, heroes and heroes were called nothing less than Holy Russians, since they defended the Holy Russian land. After the fall of Byzantium, the Russian land began to be presented as the guardian of the true Christian faith.
