The Rublyovka government is not a modern narrative. The Russian tsars traveled through it to the Savvino-Storozhevsky monastery, founded in the 14th century by the disciple of Sergius of Radonezh, the monk Savva, who blessed the tsars for the kingdom, starting with Alexei Mikhailovich. This is a place of power.
It is here that the only imperial estate in the Moscow region is located, “Ilinskoye-Usovo”, which belonged to the wife of Emperor Alexander II, and then to his son, the Governor General of Moscow, Grand Duke Sergei Romanov.
In 1884, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, uncle of Nicholas II, brought his young wife, the first beauty of Europe, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse, to Ilyinskoye. Elizabeth was the granddaughter of the English Queen Victoria, who then owned half the world, and she rejected many suitors, including the future German Emperor William II. She was nowhere as happy as in the land of Zvenigorod, when she entered the land of the new Fatherland.
In that happy year of 1884, Elizabeth still did not know that in 1905 she would collect with her own hands the remains of her husband killed by the Kalyaev bomb after the explosion, then she would create the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent in Moscow, she would dedicate herself to works of charity, Provide assistance to soldiers wounded in the Russo-Japanese War and World War I, open warehouses and sewing workshops in the Kremlin, send 25 “flying squadrons” to the front and provide assistance following the example of modern ambulances. But on the night of July 17-18, 1918, events occurred that forever connected Alapaevsk to world history, when the Bolsheviks threw her and her relatives into a coal mine. From there, her ashes were lifted on October 11, 1918, and across the fronts of the Civil War, through China, Port Said was handed over to Jerusalem, where she was buried in 1921 under the Church of Mary Magdalene in Gethsemane, that visited. she with her husband, being the first presidents of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society, thanks to which Russia was established in the Holy Land, uniting Christ with Russia.
…Summer was leaving. The pilgrims began their journey from the Church of Elias, where Isabel received her first communion, and passed by the commemorative buildings of the Infirmary and the Maternity Hospital, where the ESPO Foundation has now opened museums that are part of the “Imperial Route”, which already covers 27 regions of the Russian Federation.
“At the end of the month, the historical and educational “Imperial Route” will be expanded to two more regions,” said Anna Gromova, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Foundation for the Promotion of the Revival of the Traditions of Mercy and Charity “Elizaveta-Sergius “. Educational Society”. – Why are religious processions and the “Imperial Route” necessary? How can you love your country without knowing its history?
At half past two in the afternoon the crossing of the Moscow River began: the first raft with icons separated from the shore. We are in the middle of the religious procession: an hour and a half and three kilometers behind. It was on rafts that the Romanovs were transported from the Ilyinsky summer residence to the Usovo winter home.
The procession of the cross is a long prayer. Now it is important to understand ourselves, our purpose and that the Homeland needs to be loved and protected. Many pilgrims, about three thousand, took the icons home. Several people carried hanging bells, announcing the event throughout the area.
The procession passed by the Novo-Ogarevo residence, the School Museum and ended with the ringing of bells. A field kitchen was opened in Usovo and the “White Flower” charity event began, to which craftsmen from the Odintsovo district donated their original works. Proceeds will go to the families of SVO participants. The fair of monastic products in Alapaevsk, Perm, Jerusalem and Kaluga was noisy. The exhibition of tablets “Saint Luke: doctor, teacher, shepherd” was inaugurated. Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea Luka (Voino-Yasenetsky), scientist, surgeon, winner of the Stalin Prize for the monograph “Essays on Purulent Surgery”, went through exile and camps three times, became blind, canonized in 2000 by the Russian Orthodox Church. Charity has always been the basis of Russian society. God has no other hands than ours.
