Russian Culture General [Ladies]

[messaggera]

If there's a thread in the men's section that you want to discuss here, simply repost it adding [Ladies] at the end of the thread title so there isn't confusion.

The thread titled Russian Culture - General, in the men's section, may be interesting to discuss on the ladies' section - if any ladies are interested.

The original thread:

Russia Culture General

I would like to start a thread on Russia Culture where we can post mainly positive and interesting content on anything related to Russia (apart from politics). Examples: arts, nature, architecture, culture, movies and so on. ***Please try to post a high quality content***

www.rooshvforum.com

 

[messaggera]

I forgot to add what prompted the interest to participate. It was the following post, by @Stoyan, and enjoyed the content:

I looked it up, and it is apparently a Russian Orthodox cartoon which was produced during the period of Soviet rule in Russia. That's different from Soviet political cartoons though, which are pure Bolshevik propaganda.



Here are some other Russian Orthodox cartoons. They are the best educational materials for home schooling children for preserving the faith and culture.

 

[messaggera]

Category: Art and Architecture Christianity
Subject: The Great Palace of the Moscow Kremlin*

A series of churches belonging to the tsar’s residence were incorporated into the Great Kremlin:

• The Church of Raising Lazarus
• The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin
• The Church of Our Saviour
• The Church of Resurrection Glorified
• The Church of the Crucifixion
• St. Catherine’s Church

The following churches were also considered as palace churches:

• The Church of the Redeemer in the Wood (torn down in 1930)
• The Church of the Deposition of the Robe (function as a museum since 1918)
• Cathedral of the Annunciation (function as a museum since 1918)

These churches are fourteenth to seventeenth century examples of Russian architecture.

* Data circa: 1981 publication

 

[messaggera]

The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin – Iconostasis
The Church of Raising Lazarus - Portal

 

[messaggera]

Makes sense. Finland used to be part of the Russian Empire. And even before Imperial times, during the Middle Ages, it is understandable that Russkies contacted with their neighboring peoples and obviously had a very significant cultural influence.

Cupolas - Terem Palace churches and the Cathedral of the Dormition.

Terem Palace

• Majolica Frize
• Eleven onion cupolas
• Brick necks - set on limestone bases
• Dutch title reliefs
• Multicoloured enamel tiles - gifted by Byelorussian craftsmen

Terem - Orthodox Cross and crescent moon?
Does anyone know the history of this symbol. It appears in more places.
cc: @thetruewhitenorth @Stoyan





The term Terem appears on encyclopedia online as:

Historians have generally used the word terem to denote the room or rooms to which Muscovite royal and boyar women were confined to separate them from men, both to underpin the custom of arranging marriages without the couple meeting in advance and to preserve women's chastity before and after marriage. The Mongols are said to have introduced the terem between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, but this theory is questionable: The practice of female seclusion reached its height in the seventeenth century, long after the Mongol occupation of Russia ended. Recent reassessments also argue that the terem in the sense of apartments where women were imprisoned like slaves is partly a construct of foreign travelers, who were unlikely ever to have seen or entered one. It matched foreign expectations concerning Muscovite orientalism and servitude. Revisionist historians perceive the royal terem not as a sign of women's helplessness and marginalization, but rather as the physical representation of a separate sphere of influence or power base, with its own extensive staff, finances and administrative structure. From within it, royal women dispensed charity, did business, dealt with petitions, and arranged marriages. These arrangements were replicated on a smaller scale in boyar households.

 

[Stoyan]

Terem - Orthodox Cross and crescent moon?
Does anyone know the history of this symbol. It appears in more places.

Some Orthodox churches have just the cross. But others also have a crescent moon together with the cross. I have long wondered why that is. I would also like to find an answer to this question.

 

[thetruewhitenorth]

Some Orthodox churches have just the cross. But others also have a crescent moon together with the cross. I have long wondered why that is. I would also like to find an answer to this question.

The half moon has no relation to Islam if that is the association you get when you see it.

It Byzantine Empire half moon symbolized the Emperor's reign or belonging to the Emperor's family.

This symbol "immigrated" to the Russian Orthodoxy and came to mean the King of the Kings - Jesus Christ.

Another meaning of this symbol is an anchor. As in Christian unwavering firmness of faith. There's a reference to Christian faith as an anchor in the Bible (message to the Jews 6:19). Where it says that the christian hope is a safe and strong anchor.

 

[Ah_Tibor]

Some Orthodox churches have just the cross. But others also have a crescent moon together with the cross. I have long wondered why that is. I would also like to find an answer to this question.

I was always told as a kid if the cross is over the moon, it means victory over Islam, so you'll see it more in places that were under Ottoman yoke.

 

[messaggera]

The half moon has no relation to Islam if that is the association you get when you see it.

It Byzantine Empire half moon symbolized the Emperor's reign or belonging to the Emperor's family.

This symbol "immigrated" to the Russian Orthodoxy and came to mean the King of the Kings - Jesus Christ.

Another meaning of this symbol is an anchor. As in Christian unwavering firmness of faith. There's a reference to Christian faith as an anchor in the Bible (message to the Jews 6:19). Where it says that the christian hope is a safe and strong anchor.

I was always told as a kid if the cross is over the moon, it means victory over Islam, so you'll see it more in places that were under Ottoman yoke.

It is difficult to find older reference; most citations are within a century of academic writing. So is it fair to say there is no solid interpretation of the crescent symbol? But these are the popular proposed thoughts.

Here is one from an online reference:

One variation of the Russian Cross is the 'Cross over Crescent', which is sometimes accompanied by "Gabriel perched on the top of the Cross blowing his trumpet."[10][6] Didier Chaudet, in the academic journal China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, writes that an "emblem of the Orthodox Church is a cross on top on a crescent. It is said that this symbol was devised by Ivan the Terrible, after the conquest of the city of Kazan, as a symbol of the victory of Christianity over Islam through his soldiers".[24][11][6][25]

Given one of the proposed thoughts involves Gabriel perhaps scripture can be reviewed? Gabriel - Annunciation of the Theotokos.

 

[messaggera]

Given one of the proposed thoughts involves Gabriel perhaps scripture can be reviewed? Gabriel - Annunciation of the Theotokos.

Category: Architecture and Christian Symbolism – Cupola Crosses
Subject: Bible interruption – Terem Palace Cross – Cathedral of Our Saviour, Moscow
Terem Cross has twelve rays from center of cross; with a crescent moon.


Home religious library reference book – topical index entry: Moon

• Celestial body – “the moon under her feet.”
• Revelation 12:1 “the sun with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars.”

Revelation 12:1​

"Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve start."​

A woman clothed with the sun is interpreted, by the Orthodox Bible, as Theotokos “her preeminent role over creation” the Messiah and offspring - the Church (12:17)

Revelation 12:17​

And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ ​

Revelation 11:18 is interesting “Those who destroy the earth are morally wicked”
The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that you should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, small and great, And should destroy those who destroy the earth.

Only a hypothesis / theory on what the Terem Palace Cross may symbolized based on scripture by topical index.

 

[messaggera]

This was an interesting read, and it sounds like history writers did some slandering of Rasputin.

Archpriest Andrew Phillips. The Real Gregory Rasputin

orthochristian.com

He was murdered by homosexuals.
His body was dug up on 11 March 1917 and incinerated in the boiler room at Petrograd Polytechnic Institute - on" Kerensky's Masonic orders."

Learned the following from the above article - never knew - a bit odd.

Lenin's Body Improves with Age

Russian scientists have developed experimental embalming methods to maintain the look, feel and flexibility of the Soviet Union's founder’s body, which is 145 years old today

www.scientificamerican.com

 

[Stoyan]

Rasputin.

This is instant karma right here.

Pop Legend Bobby Farrell Dropped Dead After Blaspheming Russian Empress, Rasputin (VIDEO)

Editor's Note: This article was generated by machine translation, so our staff cautions the reader about possible inaccuracies that may have resulted from this. However, it was deemed worthwhile to still publish such a piece because of the intrinsic value of the message - which remains evident...

russian-faith.com

 

[Stoyan]

 

[Ah_Tibor]

This was an interesting read, and it sounds like history writers did some slandering of Rasputin.

Archpriest Andrew Phillips. The Real Gregory Rasputin

orthochristian.com

He was murdered by homosexuals.
His body was dug up on 11 March 1917 and incinerated in the boiler room at Petrograd Polytechnic Institute - on" Kerensky's Masonic orders."

Grand Duchess Elizabeth was not a fan of Rasputin, and was quite vocal in her dislike. While I don't think he deserved the international reputation of the devil incarnate (nor did he have an affair with the Empress), he was part of some weird gnostic sects and well... look at him lol

Interestingly one of the reasons he was held in such high esteem by the royals is that the tsarevich improved under his care; doctors were pumping a hemophiliac full of aspirin because it was the new wonder drug. (I think lithium was another new one at the time, there were only about three commercial drugs that actually worked)

 

[Roosh]

Interestingly one of the reasons he was held in such high esteem by the royals is that the tsarevich improved under his care

Rasputin's prayers repeatedly helped St. Alexis during bad episodes. Hard for his mother (Empress Alexandra) not to connect cause-and-effect and see Rasputin as a miracle-worker and healer, which have existed in the Church. But the slander against Empress Alexandra for doing anything untoward with Rasputin was false and a form of propaganda to take down the royal family. God allowed all that to happen for His reasons.

 

[Ah_Tibor]

Rasputin's prayers repeatedly helped St. Alexis during bad episodes. Hard for his mother (Empress Alexandra) not to connect cause-and-effect and see Rasputin as a miracle-worker and healer, which have existed in the Church. But the slander against Empress Alexandra for doing anything untoward with Rasputin was false and a form of propaganda to take down the royal family. God allowed all that to happen for His reasons.

Sects and occultism were rampant around that time (as they are now), and Rasputin was introduced through the "Black Princesses." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Milica_of_Montenegro

Princess Anastasia of Montenegro - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

This is a pretty level article:

The Real Rasputin?: A Look at His Admirers' Revisionist History

A thorough and sober investigation of attempts to rediscover the "Real Rasputin", by a noted historian of the Russian Church.

orthodoxlife.org

I think the aspirin connection is pertinent, considering how often this happens in contemporary life (people improving after stopping "treatment").

 

[messaggera]

Rasputin is an interesting individual, and there is a lot to say.
However, I have this beautiful imagine for how Russian woman dressed:



Anna Kotukhina
Panel - Birch-tree 1956
Russian Lacquered Miniatures

 

[messaggera]

The Royal Passion - Bearers of Russia

“All is in God’s will.
The deeper you look, the more you understand that this is so.

All sorrows are sent us to free us from our sins or as a test of our faith, an example to others.

It requires good food to make plants grow properly, and the Gardener, walking through His garden, wants to be pleased with His flowers.

If they do not grow properly, He takes His pruning knife, and cuts, waiting for the sunshine to coax them into growth again.”

Alexandra Feodorovna (Tsaritsa), December 1917 letter






Service to the Holy Royal Passion - Bearers of Russia
Glory: Tone 6

When the cruel time came, and dark forces encompassed the land of Russia, then began the slaying of men for the word of God.

And thou, O Tsar-martyr, as the first-fruit of the new Passion-bearers, with the God-loving Tsaritsa, and thy royal children and faithful servants, cried out with love:

"Come let us offer ourselves to God as living sacrifice, and thus bear witness to the Orthodox Faith, that we might be made worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven."

 

[Stoyan]

However, I have this beautiful imagine for how Russian woman dressed:

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Traditional Russian women's clothing. How beautiful!

 

[messaggera]