The Kazan Icon of the Mother of God enjoys unprecedented veneration in Russia. Usually it is from this icon that young people bless the wreath, they hang by the children's beds so that the gentle face of the Mother of God with love sees the young Christians. Nowadays in Moscow on Red Square the Kazan Cathedral dedicated to this icon is being restored; it was destroyed in the mid-1930s and is now being renovated according to the drawings preserved by the remarkable restorer Pyotr Dmitrievich Baranovsky. Again, a few steps from the Voskresensky Gate and not far from the monument, the citizen Mininu, who saved Rus, and Prince Pozharsky, pred from the face of the Kazan icon, rise in prayer. Is returned the churches and the Kazan Cathedral in the northern capital, in which rests the dust of Field Marshal Kutuzov, who defended Russia two centuries later.

The Kazan Icon – the unshakable reminder of the grace of the Mother of God to the Russian land, about Her commitment to our country in the most difficult years and trials for Russia.

The very next day, after the capture of Kazan from the army of Tsar John Vasilyevich in 1552, the cathedral in the name of Blagoveshcheniya Presvyatoy Bogoroditsy was built by order, and after a year the Kazan diocese was founded and the first Kazan ruler, consecrated Guri, was sent. Tamed the religion, and not Siloy went to join the Church of the Muslims turned to the Orthodox faith. But after the quarter with superfluous centuries, in 1579, the terrible fire devastated half of the Kazan Kremlin with the part of the city adjacent to it. And the Mohammedans spoke as if the Russian god was unkind to people and showed anger on them from the fire." Faith Hristova, - noted the chronicler, - became pritchey and reproach ". It was precisely then that God showed mercy. To the nine-year-old girl, Streltsy's daughter Matryona in a dream was the Mother of God and ordered to look for the icon on the site of the burning house. The girl was believed, but on July 8th of the Christian era, the statute of the barren go according to the authorities for a long time, mother Matreny took herself and found the place indicated by the Tsarina Heavenly the icon, which was in the dilapidated sleeve the men's clothing made from the cherry cloth is reversed. The face of Prechistoj was bright and clear, like the icon had just been written.

The wise men solemnly moved to the parish church of Nikolas Tulski, настоятелем of which then God-fearing yerei, the future Patriarch Germogen, who died at the hands of the Poles for the correctness of the Orthodox religion and was canonized. The future pond has just formed the first description of the appearance of the Kazan icon to the Tsar to Moscow together with the exact list of the found icon.

The tsar ordered to build a nunnery on the Magpies инокинь in the place of acquisition of the icon; отроковица took Matrena together with the mother from the first in the new monastery пострижение. In 1594 an extensive cathedral was placed here for the preservation of Kazan, in the monastery there were plentiful contributions of equipment, figures, phelonia; miracle- was surrounded by tsarist gifts – gold, precious stones, pearls.

After two centuries, Empress Catherine II gave Kazan people the new phelonium, the main decoration of which became the brilliant crown, which was taken from the Earth Empress for the Tsarina Heavenly. In 1798 was laid for Kazan, and in 1808 the new extensive cathedral was inaugurated, which was destroyed together with the entire Bogoroditsky monastery in 1930. But at that time the icon here already was not.

The appearance of the Kazan icon to Tsar John Vasilieviche marked the beginning of Russia's centuries-old rise to the east. By opening the window to Asia with the taking of Kazan, the Orthodox religion learned all of Siberia and it arrived, together with the Russian state, to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. As if on this movement lay the special blessing Prechistoj чрез your Kazan icon.

But on the night of June 29, 1904, some criminal robbers led by the century A.Stojanom-Chaikinyms broke into the cathedral, using phelonias with precious jewelry. If the wicked did not catch any phelonium, the most miraculous one was not with them. The main robber assured several times that they sawed the phelonium and sold it to the jeweler, and threw the icon into the oven to check whether there was anything wrong with it. It was in the house of merchant Shevlyagina in the academic district of Kazan. The many years of investigation and the comparison of the contradictory statements of the perpetrators didn't achieve what.

Said as if the icon Shevlyaginym, leaving after the revolution in England and selling it there into private hands, was actually bought. Already in 1960‑х in the West the Kazan icon in precious phelonium actually appeared; But this method turned out to be a masterly executed copy already in our century, but the phelonium on it, according to all evidence, was genuine - the one that disappeared in 1904. The Orthodox Americans tried to ransom it this way, on December 8 it was even exhibited for worship in the Boston Orthodox Temple, where thousands of people saw it, but they failed to collect funds. In the end, this Kazan, together with its decorative phelonium, was purchased by the Catholics in 1970, was kept for a long time in the Portuguese city of Fatima, and from 1982 is in the Vatican.

But if the real phelonium was not sawn, then the noble Kazan people could be preserved, in which thousands of Orthodox people believed and continue to believe. Who knows what Chaikin, slowly fading away for many years in Shlisselburga's single camera, thought about, what he lied about, and what he told the truth about? It is difficult to imagine an iniquity more terrible than burning in the furnace of the manner to which from the centuries pilgrims prostrated themselves, to whom the most fervent and sincere supplication of all Russia... treated.

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