The deserted and wild edge of a river basin of Sungari and adjoining districts in which wandered tolYOko wild tribes of hunters of savages, has quickened and razYOvilsja only when the majestic will of Russian Sovereign in this edge had been set vigorous and talented Russian forces when on virgin proYOstory the primitive country there were prolits streams of Russian gold, Russian sweat and Russian blood.
The important and significant part of the Great Siberian Way has lain on the person of the Manchurian country. And the Majestic Owner of Russian ground when made this great business, Sovereign Emperor Nikolay was II Aleksandrovich. Here the first spiritual string binding Harbin and Manchuria with a light name of the Martyr of Sovereign.
Then, when after a terrible storm of revolution heavy sufferings have fallen to a lot of all Russian naYOroda, both stayed within the limits of Russia, and left to exile, sensitive and conscientious hearts vospriYOnjali these sufferings as punishment Bozhie for a sin pred Tsar and the Native land, accomplished by all Russian naroYOdom in his cathedral unity.
This consciousness becomes stronger and amplifies nowadays for, despite of all diligence of Russian people, despite of blood, procast in white struggle, despite of the greatest pressure of energy shown by Russian emigration abroad, sufferings of Russian people do not decrease, and grow eventually.
The few, very much Russian people in the world have few friends. Together with great slavic poet Kollarom we have the full right to exclaim: " MiYOloserdnyj My God! Why anybody on whole light does not concern to us fairly! " And here one of neYOmnogih such our friends the noble Crowned Leader of Yugoslavia - King Alexander I was. And on October, 9-th, 1934 it was srazhen a rascally hand.
This new sharp painful pain caused to Russian heart, has stirred up for a long time living nastroeYOnija and, in reply to my appeal, has united many in hot and effective aspiration to create in our city - znachitelnejshem the center of Russian dispersion on the Far East - a prayful monument, in koYOtorom the pray for MucheYOnikov Sovereigns and in which Russian people before liYOtsom Bozhiim could bring the pokajannye feelings and pokajannye prays constantly would rise.
The Building Committee on creation of a chapel - a monument on April, 4-th, 1935 started to work. And on May, 6 (19), in birthday of Sovereign ImYoperatora Nikolay II, the bookmark chasovYOni has been accomplished.
The liturgy this day was made by three arhipastyrja: Archbishop Nestor 1, Bishop Dimitry 2 And Bishop Juvenaly 3. Powerfully sang chorus of church of the House of Mercy 4, and all Church sang " Eternal Memory " Blagochestivejshemu to Sovereign to Emperor All-Russia Nikolay II-io Aleksandrovichu and Blagochestivejshemu to Sovereign to King of Yugoslavia Alexander I-io Karageorgievichu.
The deep and strong word was made PreosvjashchenYOnyj by Bishop Dimitry who has specified on sense and value sooruzhaemoj of a chapel as a monument to Crowned Martyrs and as a place of our pray for them. " PaYOmjatnik this will testify, that we not zaYObyli the Emperor, it will speak about it as us, and our young generation replacing us ", - has told Vladika Dimitry.
By the end of the Liturgy to the House of Mercy there has arrived Archbishop Melety 5 And all four arhipastyrej, together with set of clergy and uncountable crowds of people, religious procession were directed to a place of a bookmark of a chapel. By this time all court yard of the House of Mercy, adjoining street, even the roof of a temple and the next houses has been filled with uncountable national crowds.
I have addressed to people with a word: " Christ Voskrese! All of us have gathered on a pray and on zakladYOku a chapel-monument to Crowned Martyrs - to Sovereign to Emperor All-Russia and all to His Imperial Family and Sovereign to King of Yugoslavia AlekYOsandru I Obedinitelju.
Not on the native ground, and on chuYOzhoj we create this prayful monument, for we in exile, far from the native ground where do not allow to pray for Crowned Martyrs. Not from the surpluses, not from riches bring to us zhertvovateli victims on sacred business, but from skuYOdosti, among need when frequently zhertvovateli eat bitter korkoj bread. But " not bread ediYOnym the person " will be alive, and not only dolzhYOny we to care of bread these years tests and flours.
No, we, why we liYOshilis and first of all should look bread, and krova, both well-being, and glories, and our Fatherland. Because we have sinned, and first of all have sinned pred our Tsar - Anointed sovereign Bozhiim about whom the Vladika has told: " do not touch to my Anointed sovereign ".
All of us povinny in falling our Empire, in loss of our Tsar. Others swore above it and others as Pilat, washed hands slandered him, and. We dolzhYOny to expiate this sin a hourly constant repentance, poYOstojannoj pokajannoj a pray before the God. About this our indispensable duty yes it will be constant naYOpominat nowadays erected a chapel-monument, in koYOtoroj if the God will bless, the Bloodless Victim will be brought also.
The some people speak, that the best monument to Sovereign would be to collect children of poor men, to arrange free-of-charge dining rooms, for with circle mnoYOgo needs. Truly, it is a lot of need, and to that the proof is our House of Mercy full and children, which here more than eight tens, both poor, and patients. Is about temples Bozhiih both dining rooms, and other shelters. This work in the name of mercy Bozhija necessarily should be made, because sufferings human vopijut to each heart. But neither shelters, nor dining rooms, almshouses cannot be monuments to Sovereign because our need, our sufferings were born from our sin proYOtiv Tsar and the Native land, and all our charitable establishments are a consequence of our sin, instead of his expiation. A monument to Sovereign can be tolYOko the house of a pray, the house Divine where the pray for Tsar of the Martyr and a pray of our repentance will rise.
This monument should be modest as all should be modest at us on foreign land. So, we shall be united now all in belief and a pray, asking the God to accept from us these small victims, these small mites and works in expiation of our great sin. Amin ".
Then we - all arhipastyri - have made moleYOben and with a pray a bookmark of a chapel-monument.
In the evening that day in Russian Club was mnoYOgoljudnoe the mourning session devoted to memory MuYOchenika of Sovereign. I have told about how was lucky enough also great honour mnogazhdy to see Sovereign and His Family in days of the world and happiness of Russia, as well as in days of terrible war; the former tutor of the Successor of Cesarevitch - about. Hegumen Nikolay 6 Has told about the memoirs of a life at the Imperial Court yard; N.L.Gondatti 7 And prof. K.I.Zajtsev 8 Have depicted a light image of Martyr-tsar.
This day the set of Russian people has brought the feasible mites for the general sacred affair.
Work has actively and vigorously begun to boil. Vice-chairmen our Building KoYOmiteta were general V.V.Rychkov 9 And V.S.Frolov 10. The project of a chapel is created by the architect engineer M.M.Oskolkovym 11. The Serb most vigorously took part in work - M.A.Avdalovich.
I have visited the diversified layers of the population of
Harbin with an appeal to help business of creation of a chapel. And
everywhere saw the kind sacrificial response. So
Russian people from other countries and cities of Russian dispersion
have warmly and assiduously responded numerous patriotically-adjusted.
Under my assignment father Hegumen Nafanail 12 Has gone round all stations and settlements of a line former KVZHD 13 With an appeal to Russian people. It has penetrated with this appeal into the deepest jungle of the Manchurian taiga, to Russian security guards and workers. And these tempered in dangers and works people forgotten in a solitude, have felt again Russian, which close and dearly general Russian business, communicating Russian grief. With enthusiasm they labour, okroplennye blood and then have collected pennies and copecks, being pleased, as they forgotten in depths of a taiga, can take part in a common cause.
It was with this appeal and at frontier Russian settlements where the especial sense, especial value got an appeal to creation of a chapel-monument of our repentance because, appear, and close open spaces of Russia listen to this appeal.
So the general works, the general efforts realization of a sacred affair became possible. And on July, 15 (28), in day of memory of sacred prince Vladimir, the cross on a dome of a chapel has been solemnly lifted - the first most difficult part of work has been finished.
Further work was carried out mainly, on an internal ornament of a chapel and on furnish of its external details by the artist by sculptor V.F.Vinklerom under K.A.Karaulova's management 14.
At last on May, 4 (17) [1936] day of consecration svjaYOshchennoj chapels has come.
From street before a chapel the pig-iron fencing decorated with art cast copper two-headed eagles - gift of colonel S.D.Ivanov from Russian Shanghai Volonterskogo the Shelf and K.E.Metslera from Russian Emigrant Committee in Shanghai towers. These eagles decorated Once Russian Imperial General Consulate in Shanghai as guards of Russian glory on a boundary of the countries DalnevostochYonyh.
Above an input in a chapel widely proster the regal wings stately huge Two-headed Orel. A unblinking look it covered with thousand-year glory looks, brought up by victories of the syYOnov, so mnogazhdy seeing sufferings of the straYOny. On columned pedestals on the right and at the left at an input in a chapel imperial and royal crowns - wreaths of regal Sufferers which were replaced by them with martyr wreaths tower. And about it muYOchenicheskom them izbrannichestve words tserkovYOnoj prophesy the prays traced above an input in a chapel: " the universe brings Ti, My God, Bogonosnyja MuYOcheniki ".
The ancient Cap of the Monomove and Power decorate the lateral pedestals dawned by inscriptions: " there Is no at us a Tsar, jako not ubojahomsja the Vladika " and " My God, court
Yours TSarevi dazhd ".
Sacred Crucifixion Hristovo [works inokini Olympiads 15, a copy from the Crucifixion Petersburg " the Temple on blood " - places of martyr death of Emperor Alexander II-ai] with prayful nadYOpisju: " My God, forgive to them: not vedjat bo that create ", are traced on a wall of the chapel opposite from an input and inverted to a temple. " My God, forgive Russia! 16 " - this prayful sigh is connected to each stone, with everyone peschinkoj in a chapel.
Much, our Native land has much sinned. Not snesYOla she of the cross izbrannichestva, has not obeyed a voice of best of synov the, prorocheski announced Its destiny:
Remember, to be orudem the God
Terrestrial sozdanjam it is hard:
The slaves it judges strictly.
And on you, alas, as it is a lot of
Sins awful has leaned!
About, unworthy izbranja,
You are elected! Wash More soon
Itself slezoju pokajanja.
Yes a thunder double nakazanja
Will not burst above your chapter!
With soul kolenopreklonennoj,
With the chapter, lezhashcheju in a dust,
Pray molitvoju restrained
And wounds of conscience corrupted
Eleem crying cure!
(A.S.Homjakov)
And here this chapel and prays which we prineYOsem in it, yes will be eleem Russian repentance and rusYOskoj grief at terrible o'clock experienced by us.
We shall enter a chapel...
At a wall opposite from an input, the stately iconostasis towers [works inokini Olympiads and its schoolgirls - children of orphans of a shelter of the House of Mercy] with the big stately image of prelate Nikolay Chudotvortsa and over prince AlekYosandra Neva. On wings of an iconostasis and in his top part are represented sacred: tsarina Alexander, Alex - Metropolitan Moscow and other Heavenly Patrons of Regal Martyrs. With a pray they are coming at Bozhiego the Throne, as well as were coming when they martyr podYOvig regal spiritual beheld a smoke of the and the pray ishodatajstvovali at the God a marvellous fortress and great courage him at painful fatal o'clock.
On an iconostasis again two-headed eagles and crowns. Russian and all slavic distressful glory was embodied in these sacred symbols crowning a martyr monument.
Before an iconostasis on a columned pedestal vozYOvyshaetsja a silver board with the traced names ubiennyh Tsar, Tsarina, King, Grand dukes, Princess and Knjazhon. Eternal him memory and eternal him glory!
This pedestal with martyr names, gets married an imperial crown an icon lamp [this unextinguishable icon lamp is built by the Russian people revering memory of the Martyr of Tsar 17], decorated with semiprecious stones, brilliant, as if zvyozYOdochki in twilight of evening. " Tako yes light " their names at Bozhiego the Throne will be educated.
Pred a pedestal with names ubiennyh VentseYOnostsev the cross - gift to Archbishop Nestoru of Great Princess Maria Pavlovny is based 18. On it it is precise znaYOchitsja year of his creation - 1814 - year of the greatest Russian glory when pred victorious numbers rusYOskih polkov have revealed vrata the defeated Paris. Again trend of the former glory, again a painful pain in the covered with wounds heart.
On the silvered circuits from a high dome of a chapel the icon lamp-church chandelier, created of pozhertvovannyh in a chapel of awards and medals - the signs on honour given once to Russian people tsarYOskoj by a hand goes down. And nowadays, when from these former honours, from former glory there were only painful wounds in heart, there is no the best place for nice awards and medals, rather than an icon lamp in a prayful chapel of memory of the Tsar given these signs of glory.
On each side the central icon lamp others also decorated with
awards and medals are visible. And, certainly, first of all here
arrests a look the most sacred
Award - sacred George's cross.
Sacred George - white enamel,
Simple figure ? you Recollect kruchi
The forts throwing fiery steel,
The concrete rang in a whirlwind of bullets melodious.
(A.Nesmelov)
Pred in the image the gilded big icon lamp - gift of the radical inhabitant of Harbin I.T.Veresotskoj falls. And unextinguishable sparks all these fixtures in a sacred fine chapel - a monument of our former glory shine.
On each side an iconostasis, on analojah in special kivotah, to Archbishop Nestoru gifts are stored in 1911 from GoYOsudarja Emperor - an image of Saint Serafima Sarovsky and from the Successor of Cesarevitch - panagija Vsemilostivogo Spasa - the Cross of the Kamchatka Brotherhood [the Successor Cesarevitch was the Most august Patron of the Kamchatka Brotherhood created by me, c 1911]. Both imperial relics are decorated fighting orYOdenami and medals and set in openwork serebrjaYOnyj the art salary.
But not only about terrestrial so to quickly passing glory this chapel prophesies. " Voznesoh elite from my people ", the inscription above an input in a chapel, inside her says. In that terrible hour when it seemed to enemies, that they povergli Bozhiih Anointed sovereigns in the deepest precipice paYOdenija and painful death then the Will Divine has selected them and has uplifted the Elects on height of Eternal Glory centuries and centuries.
And there and then, under oseneniem these words psalomskih, we see cast sculptures of Martyr-tsar and Martyr-king, the God elected and crowned all over again regal, and then a martyr wreath.
Terrible caution and a constant reminder to us about a repentance words of other two inscriptions on right and on the left party in vnutrennoYOsti chapels sound: " of the God be afraid, tsar honour " and " Not priYOkasajtes Pomazannym .Moim ".
From each party of these inscriptions eyes of the cherubs who have stiffened in prayful calmness look. As guards of Divine verbs look they quiet eyes at the guilty ground, but the look them incessantly reminds of eternity and unalterability of the Divine Truth.
And at sacred o'clock of consecration of a sacred chapel yes
each Russian heart pred trend of a pray, pred shadows of the former
glory calling us, and yes Will reveal
Ardent prays to the Creator, in Whose ruYOkah all destinies of the universe will rise.
Do not speak: that was,
That olden time, a sin of fathers:
And our tribe young
Does not know old those sins.
No, this sin it it is eternal with us,
It in our veins and in blood,
It has grown together with our hearts,
Hearts, dead in love.
(A.S.Homjakov)
The repentance and molitvoju yes will clear our hearts to become worthy to favour Bozhiej.