Patriarch Kirill on a yacht. Yacht rest on the Dnieper
Online812 became known new details of the secular life of Orthodox leaders. As it turned out, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and his subordinates use one of the most luxurious yachts in Russia and at the same time do not very legitimately exploit the symbols of state power of the Russian Federation.
Small ship for $ 4,000,000
A black yacht “Pallada” with tinted windows, with Russian arms on the sides and a tricolor at the stern is moored at the Nikolsky monastery of the Valaam archipelago. Not far from here is the Valaam residence of the Patriarch. Pallas almost always stands here - its own pier is built for it. Against the background of St. Nicholas Church, it looks like a presidential limousine against the background of the Kremlin.According to local residents, VIP guests arriving in Valaam are driven on a yacht, and Patriarch Kirill loves her. In September last year, for example, His Holiness traveled on the Volga on the Pallas.
"Pallas" -, its description can be found in the catalogs of the most famous yachts. It was built at the shipyards of the Dutch-Russian consortium Timmerman Yachts in 2003 according to the project of the Dutch architect Guido de Grot.
The yacht is designed for a comfortable accommodation of 8 people plus there are cabins for four crew members. On board are a living room with a home cinema and a bar, a dining room with a dining table for 8 people and several bedrooms, some of which have king-size double beds. The floors are covered with white carpets. White leather furniture is made of elite wood.
The yacht is equipped with modern equipment: including electronic cartography system, SONAR radar, navigation warning receiver, mooring cameras and bow thruster.
When Patriarch Kirill traveled on the Pallas to the Yaroslavl and Rostov diocese, his press service, covering this event through secular media, delicately called the Pallas a “small vessel.”
Compared to cruise ships, the Pallas is really small: 32 meters long and about 8 meters wide. Its cost, according to various estimates, is $ 4 - 6.7 million. Annual maintenance of such yachts costs an average of 10 - 20 percent of the cost.
Putin and the Pallas
Before serving the Patriarch, the Pallas belonged to the Presidential Administration of Russia. Then the president was Vladimir Putin.They say that the yacht was specially built for the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg, so that the head of state could adequately welcome guests of the sea capital of Russia on it. On the same yacht, Vladimir Putin participated in celebrations on the occasion of the 1250th anniversary of Staraya Ladoga.
In 2005, the Pallas was donated to the Russian Orthodox Church. But not directly by the president, but through a "mediator." Lukoil bought the yacht from the property of the Administrative Department, and then the oil workers donated it to the church. Most likely, the donation scheme was built in advance at the highest level by mutual agreements between business, church and state authorities.
This assumption was confirmed on the website of the Valaam Monastery. The monks honestly wrote that "the yacht was acquired by the Lukoil oil company specifically for the subsequent transfer of the Russian Orthodox Church in the person of the Valaam Monastery." The key word here is “specifically”: that is, the oil industry bought the yacht from the agency Kozhin “on order”.
["Komsomolskaya Pravda", 07/25/2005, "Putin’s yacht went to the monastery": Valaam Monastery received a beautiful, and most importantly, the right gift. The monastery is located on the islands of Lake Ladoga, and carries out all communications with the "mainland" by water. The monastery already has its own fleet - 10 ships. But the monastery is often visited by distinguished guests, and there wasn’t any ship suitable for their status.
And so it appeared!
The pleasure boat “Pallada” was built 2 years ago and until recently was at the disposal of the Office of the President of the Russian Federation. And then the LUKOIL oil company bought it and donated it to the Valaam Monastery.
The Pallas transfer ceremony and prayer service were held right on the Krestovsky Island pier. Contrary to popular belief, as the monastery’s press secretary Mikhail Shishkov explained, the interior of the ship is rather modest.
“There are no pools, saunas or anything else luxurious,” said Shishkov. - So nothing will stop the guests from being in a prayer mood.
All interior lining is made mostly of oak. Largely due to this, the yacht looks rich. The furniture is upholstered in fair skin. The dining room is decorated with a huge, full-wall, image of the Russian frigate "Pallas", in whose honor the yacht was named. All yacht windows are covered with a special dimming spray. [...]
Press Secretary of NK LUKOIL Dmitry Dolgov: [...]
- Dmitry, how much did LUKOIL pay for Pallada?
“I can't say, trade secret.”
- Why did the oilmen suddenly make such a broad gesture? Or didn’t the yacht suit itself?
- The yacht is good. But we, in my opinion, did not even exploit it. Perhaps the yacht was bought specifically for transfer to the monastery. - Box K.ru]
Accepting a yacht with the pagan name “Pallas” as a gift, the Holy Fathers promised to give it a more suitable Orthodox name - “The Tsaritsa”. As explained on the website of the Valaam Monastery - in honor of the Icon of the Mother of God, called the "Tsaritsa", written on Athos and donated to the Valaam Monastery by the Athos Brotherhood. Now this icon is one of the shrines of the monastery and is located in the church of St. Sergius and Herman of Valaam.
Will Our Lady Wait?
Six years have passed since the “churching” of the yacht, but the pagan “Pallada” was never baptized into the Orthodox “Vecaritsa”. And even the state emblems, which were assigned to her by status, while the president of Russia was sailing on a yacht, still show off on her sides.
Although using the emblem of the Russian Federation wherever prohibited by the federal constitutional law "On the State Emblem of the Russian Federation." It lists all the cases when, where and by whom can the emblem of Russia be used. The case of the yacht "Pallas" is not described in it. That is, the Russian Orthodox Church does not have the right to use state emblems on its ship ... But it does.
Holy places for VIP guests
Online812 contacted the Valaam Monastery, which today manages the Pallada. According to Mikhail Shishkov, spokesman for the bishop of Pankratia, abbot of the monastery, a specially trained monk — a professional sailor — manages the yacht. Previously, this monk worked on other monastery ships, and then grew to the captain of the Pallas.The yacht operates in its mode - for VIP guests, - explained Mikhail Shishkov. “And nobody knows about them when they come and go.” Guests often arrive under guard, so no one is given access to this information.
The bishop’s spokesman could not explain why the church yacht is decorated with the arms of Russia.
Are the coats of arms so attached that they cannot be removed? he suggested and advised contacting the assistant bishop for legal affairs, Leonid Medvedev.
Lawyer Medvedev gave a competent answer:
- Well, what to do? It happened! - he said. “Why do you care?” Please, in accordance with the established procedure, contact the state authorities that there is a violation ... Maybe it really takes place?
The press service of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia put forward another version:
“Probably, they decided not to take off the coat of arms for their greater beauty,” says Deacon Alexander Volkov, deputy head of the press service. - Most likely, the thought that it was against the law did not occur to anyone. It seems that the coat of arms is a worthy and appropriate symbol in any place, on any vehicle. Therefore, if it is, why clean?
Pallas - a pagan name, why the yacht was not renamed the "All Tsaritsa"?
Not renamed - and not renamed, ”says Deacon Alexander. - We have a lot of pagan names and symbols that no longer have any basis and are simply used as proper names. There is no need to discern any additional meanings or anything else.
According to Alexander Volkov, the Pallada yacht is on the balance sheet of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Church pays for its maintenance. How much does it cost, in the Valaam monastery they did not want to answer, referring to the "incorrectness" of the question.
What punishment threatens the owners of "Pallas"
Article 17.10. Administrative Code "Violation of the official use of state symbols of the Russian Federation"Violation of the procedure for the official use of the State Flag of the Russian Federation, the State Emblem of the Russian Federation or the National Anthem of the Russian Federation - entails the imposition of an administrative fine on citizens in the amount of from 2 thousand to 3 thousand rubles;
for officials - from 5 thousand to 7 thousand rubles;
for legal entities - from 100 thousand to 150 thousand rubles.
What is Patriarch Kirill accused of?
The scandal inside the Russian Orthodox Church broke out in late March, when several priests from the Izhevsk and Udmurt dioceses, Archpriest Sergei Kondakov, rector of St. Nicholas Church in the village of Zavyalova, member of the Public Chamber of the Udmurt Republic, addressed an open letter to Patriarch Kirill; Archpriest Mikhail Karpeev, rector of the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord of the village of Yagul and rector of the church of St. Basil the Great, d. Khokhryaki; priest Alexander Malykh, priest of the Cathedral of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky, candidate of theological sciences.The letter, according to Regions.Ru, in particular, says.
“... We strongly ask that we stop the shameful practice of blind conciliation with the authorities and all kinds of flirting with moneybags ... We cannot but be embarrassed by the ease with which church awards, orders with images of saints, representatives of government and business are distributed ... We strongly ask that You, Your Holiness, have made sure that our people see you not only blessing and kissing the highest authorities, but also exposing them ... We strongly ask you to pay attention to the life of many rural priests on the gran and poverty, while a considerable part of the clergy, caressed by the powers that be, is drowning in luxury .... We strongly ask to put an end to the atrocities of those clergymen, including very high-ranking, who indulge in shameful mortal sins. The sin of sodomy ... flourishes by destroying the Church from within ... "
In response to this letter, its authors received, in their words, "pressure that has nothing to do with Christianity." In late May, rebellious clerics announced that they were leaving the Russian Orthodox Church in the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad. They left the patriarch yet another — farewell — letter in which they stated that "the cult of the personality of the Patriarch of Moscow can destroy our Russian Orthodox Church."
This is not the first such scandal in the Russian Orthodox Church. The accusations of the Udmurt priests practically repeat the statements of the former Bishop of Chukchi Diomede made in 2007. As a result, Diomede likewise with a small group of adherents went into schism.
Yacht "Pallas"
total length - 32 mWidth - 7.45 m
Full load draft - 1.8 m
Cruising speed - 12.5 knots
Power reserve - 2500 nautical miles
Fuel supply - 24 000 l
Fresh water - 3000 l
Engines - 2 x Caterpillar 3196 (2x374 HP)
Materials hull / superstructure - steel / aluminum-magnesium alloy
Class - Det Nordske Veritas (DNV) + 1A1 LC Yacht R0 E0. Complies with ISA
Guest Accommodation - 8 people in 4 cabins
Crew - 4 people in 2 cabins
Designer - Guido de Groot Design / Guinton Naval Architects / MCC
Interior design - Guido de Groot Design
Yacht "Pallas", one of the most luxurious yachts in Russia, belongs to Patriarch Kirill. The cost of the ship is four million dollars.
"Pallas" stands on the pier at the Nicholas Skete of the Valaam archipelago, near the Valaam residence of the Patriarch.
A private pier has been built for her, and locals say that they drive VIP guests on it.
“Pallas” is an exclusive luxury vessel; its description can be found in the catalogs of the most famous yachts. It was built at the shipyards of the Dutch-Russian consortium Timmerman Yachts in 2003 according to the project of the Dutch architect Guido de Grot.
The yacht is designed for a comfortable accommodation of 8 people plus there are cabins for four crew members. On board are a living room with a home cinema and a bar, a dining room with a dining table for 8 people and several bedrooms, some of which have king-size double beds. The floors are covered with white carpets. White leather furniture is made of elite wood.
The yacht is equipped with modern equipment: including electronic cartography system, SONAR radar, navigation warning receiver, mooring cameras and bow thruster.
Before serving the Patriarch, the Pallas belonged to the Office of the President of Russia. Then the president was Vladimir Putin.
They say that the yacht was specially built for the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg, so that the head of state could adequately welcome guests of the sea capital of Russia on it. On the same yacht, Vladimir Putin participated in celebrations on the occasion of the 1250th anniversary of Staraya Ladoga.
In 2005, the Pallas was donated to the Russian Orthodox Church. But not directly by the president, but through a "mediator." Lukoil bought the yacht from the property of the Administrative Department, and then the oil workers donated it to the church. Most likely, the donation scheme was built in advance at the highest level by mutual agreements between business, church and state authorities.
This assumption was confirmed on the website of the Valaam Monastery. The monks honestly wrote that "the yacht was acquired by the Lukoil oil company specifically for the subsequent transfer of the Russian Orthodox Church in the person of the Valaam Monastery." The key word here is “specifically”: that is, the oil industry bought the yacht from the agency Kozhin “on order”.
Accepting a yacht with the pagan name “Pallas” as a gift, the Holy Fathers promised to give it a more suitable Orthodox name - “The Tsaritsa”. As explained on the website of the Valaam Monastery - in honor of the Icon of the Mother of God, called the "Tsaritsa", written on Athos and donated to the Valaam Monastery by the Athos Brotherhood. Now this icon is one of the shrines of the monastery and is located in the church of St. Sergius and Herman of Valaam.
Six years have passed since the “churching” of the yacht, but the pagan “Pallada” was never baptized into the Orthodox “Vecaritsa”. And even the state emblems, which were assigned to her by status, while the president of Russia was sailing on a yacht, still show off on her sides.
According to Alexander Volkov, the Pallada yacht is on the balance sheet of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Church pays for its maintenance. How much does it cost, in the Valaam monastery they did not want to answer, referring to the "incorrectness" of the question.
Characteristics of the yacht "Pallas":
Total length - 32 m
Width - 7.45 m
Full load draft - 1.8 m
Cruising speed - 12.5 knots
Cruising range - 2500 nautical miles
Fuel capacity - 24 000 l
Fresh water supply - 3000 l
Engines - 2 x Caterpillar 3196 (2x374 HP)
Materials hull / superstructure - steel / aluminum-magnesium alloy
Class - Det Nordske Veritas (DNV) + 1A1 LC Yacht R0 E0. Complies with ISA
Accommodation - 8 people in 4 cabins
Crew - 4 people in 2 cabins
Designer - Guido de Groot Design / Guinton Naval Architects / MCC
Interior design -
A person similar to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, in swimming trunks at the helm of a yacht worth from € 680 thousand.
The original of this material© Open Russia, 09/22/2015, A patriarch bathing, a yacht for half a million euros, the Russian Orthodox Church’s “environmental doctrine” and “individual representatives of the political elite”, Photo: TASS, via Open Russia, ewnc.org, Illustrations: via Open Russia"
Dmitry Shevchenko
Last summer, the ROC Supreme Church Council adopted the so-called “Methodological Recommendations on the Participation of the Russian Orthodox Church in Environmental Protection”, the authors of which complain that “immoderation, greed, money-grubbing, lack of culture are direct sources of the current difficult environmental situation in the world.” Same summer patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill in all its glory lit up on his own black Sea "cottage", the story of the building does not even serve so much as a guide to immoderation, greed, money-grubbing and lack of culture, as it deserves a couple of dozen volumes of the criminal case. [...]
The environmental online magazine Bellona.RU, however, suggested that the church begin environmental work not with a prayer service and street sweeping, but with the disclosure of information about the so-called “patriarch’s dacha”. For the sake of persuasiveness, the publication sent a request to the chairman of the synodal information department of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, Vladimir Legoyda.
The Patriarch’s dacha is a textbook example of how the state took and simply evaporated in a single piece of Russia (the entire “country history” has been collected, but there is a brief chronology): the prosecutors have evaporated, the police have evaporated, Rosprirodnadzor has withdrawn from its duties, all the local ones have disappeared authorities. Hundreds of Red Book pitsunda pines disappeared after them, on the site of which a sickening kind of monolithic concrete structure grew up, a sort of variation of the Moscow tower of the era of Ivan the Terrible.
The history of this architectural splendor began in 2004 with this letter to the governor Tkachev:
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The construction of the "summer cottage" was accompanied by outrageous lies both on the part of the Russian Orthodox Church itself and on the part of state bodies. It was said either about the "hotel for pilgrims", then about the "spiritual and cultural center", then generally about some purely resort facility, almost a brothel. But we must pay tribute to the late Alexy - in his scandalous "cottage" he did not shine.
Unlike, however, from his successor. Mr. Gundyaev not only does not hesitate to rest beautifully in Divnomorskoye, but, as the locals say, he does not hesitate to even use the FSB coast guard for protection during bathing and boat trips.
The other day I was sent a curious photo story about how a person similar to Patriarch Kirill famously steers the Azimut yacht (the Italian shipyard, which is one of the leading places in the world in the field of building exclusive motor yachts), famously in the sea between the villages of Dzhanhot and Divnomorskoe, a place called the Blue Abyss. The photo was taken about a month ago by one of the vacationers. For good luck, the border guards that day for some reason did not protect the patriarchal peace and did not disperse sightseeing boats.
Another photograph shows how a certain gray-haired old man-millionaire (probably only due to some misunderstanding reminiscent of Mr. Gundyaev) is hooked to the cable, apparently about to dip into the water.
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If anyone is interested in buying an Azimut yacht for such boat trips here, you can find out the prices on this site. The price tag for a yacht of the type with which the white-haired old man was dipped into the water (Magellano 43 series) starts from 440 thousand euros - and this is just the price in Europe. In Russia, Magellano 43 costs from 680 thousand euros and above. Such is the “environmental policy” with the “guidelines”.
In general, I believe that it will take a very long time to wait for an answer from the Russian Orthodox Church regarding the Black Sea "dacha". And criminal cases concerning, blocking the coast with a blank fence, cutting down Pitsunda pines, about the failure by foresters and environmental inspectors to fulfill their direct duties and so on and so forth will take even longer. [...]
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15/06/2011
In the Russian Orthodox Church, a scandal is gaining momentum related to the accusations of Patriarch Kirill of cringing before the secular authorities and other sins.
O nline812 became known new details of the secular life of Orthodox leaders. As it turned out, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and his subordinates use one of the most luxurious yachts in Russia and at the same time do not very legitimately exploit the symbols of state power of the Russian Federation.
Small ship for $ 4,000,000
A black yacht “Pallada” with tinted windows, with Russian arms on the sides and a tricolor at the stern is moored at the Nikolsky monastery of the Valaam archipelago. Not far from here is the Valaam residence of the Patriarch. Pallas almost always stands here - its own pier is built for it. Against the background of St. Nicholas Church, it looks like a presidential limousine against the background of the Kremlin.
According to local residents, VIP guests arriving in Valaam are driven on a yacht, and Patriarch Kirill loves her. In September last year, for example, His Holiness traveled on the Volga on the Pallas.
“Pallas” is an exclusive luxury vessel; its description can be found in the catalogs of the most famous yachts. It was built at the shipyards of the Dutch-Russian consortium Timmerman Yachts in 2003 according to the project of the Dutch architect Guido de Grot.
The yacht is designed for a comfortable accommodation of 8 people plus there are cabins for four crew members. On board are a living room with a home cinema and a bar, a dining room with a dining table for 8 people and several bedrooms, some of which have king-size double beds. The floors are covered with white carpets. White leather furniture is made of elite wood.
The yacht is equipped with modern equipment: including electronic cartography system, SONAR radar, navigation warning receiver, mooring cameras and bow thruster.
When Patriarch Kirill traveled on the Pallas to the Yaroslavl and Rostov diocese, his press service, covering this event through secular media, delicately called the Pallas a “small vessel.”
Compared to cruise ships, the Pallas is really small: 32 meters long and about 8 meters wide. Its cost, according to various estimates, is $ 4 - 6.7 million. Annual maintenance of such yachts costs an average of 10 - 20 percent of the cost.
Putin and the Pallas
Before serving the Patriarch, the Pallas belonged to the Office of the President of Russia. Then the president was Vladimir Putin.
They say that the yacht was specially built for the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg, so that the head of state could adequately welcome guests of the sea capital of Russia on it. On the same yacht, Vladimir Putin participated in celebrations on the occasion of the 1250th anniversary of Staraya Ladoga.
In 2005, the Pallas was donated to the Russian Orthodox Church. But not directly by the president, but through a "mediator." Lukoil bought the yacht from the property of the Administrative Department, and then the oil workers donated it to the church. Most likely, the donation scheme was built in advance at the highest level by mutual agreements between business, church and state authorities.
This assumption was confirmed on the website of the Valaam Monastery. The monks honestly wrote that "the yacht was acquired by the Lukoil oil company specifically for the subsequent transfer of the Russian Orthodox Church in the person of the Valaam Monastery." The key word here is “specifically”: that is, the oil industry bought the yacht from the agency Kozhin “on order”.
Accepting a yacht with the pagan name “Pallas” as a gift, the Holy Fathers promised to give it a more suitable Orthodox name - “The Tsaritsa”. As explained on the website of the Valaam Monastery - in honor of the Icon of the Mother of God, called the "Tsaritsa", written on Athos and donated to the Valaam Monastery by the Athos Brotherhood. Now this icon is one of the shrines of the monastery and is located in the church of St. Sergius and Herman of Valaam.
Will Our Lady Wait?
Six years have passed since the “churching” of the yacht, but the pagan “Pallada” was never baptized into the Orthodox “Vecaritsa”. And even the state emblems, which were assigned to her by status, while the president of Russia was sailing on a yacht, still show off on her sides.
Although using the emblem of the Russian Federation wherever prohibited by the federal constitutional law "On the State Emblem of the Russian Federation." It lists all the cases when, where and by whom can the emblem of Russia be used. The case of the yacht "Pallas" is not described in it. That is, the Russian Orthodox Church does not have the right to use state emblems on its ship ... But it does.
Holy places for VIP guests
Online812 contacted the Valaam Monastery, which today manages the Pallada. According to Mikhail Shishkov, spokesman for the bishop of Pankratia, abbot of the monastery, a specially trained monk — a professional sailor — manages the yacht. Previously, this monk worked on other monastery ships, and then grew to the captain of the Pallas.
The yacht operates in its mode - for VIP guests, - explained Mikhail Shishkov. “And nobody knows about them when they come and go.” Guests often arrive under guard, so no one is given access to this information.
The bishop’s spokesman could not explain why the church yacht is decorated with the arms of Russia.
Are the coats of arms so attached that they cannot be removed? he suggested and advised contacting the assistant bishop for legal affairs, Leonid Medvedev.
Lawyer Medvedev gave a competent answer:
- Well, what to do? It happened! - he said. “Why do you care?” Please, in accordance with the established procedure, contact the state authorities that there is a violation ... Maybe it really takes place?
The press service of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia put forward another version:
“Probably, they decided not to take off the coat of arms for their greater beauty,” says Deacon Alexander Volkov, deputy head of the press service. - Most likely, the thought that it was against the law did not occur to anyone. It seems that the coat of arms is a worthy and appropriate symbol in any place, on any vehicle. Therefore, if it is, why clean?
Pallas - a pagan name, why the yacht was not renamed the "All Tsaritsa"?
“They didn’t rename it, and they didn’t rename it,” says Deacon Alexander. - We have a lot of pagan names and symbols that no longer have any basis and are simply used as proper names. There is no need to discern any additional meanings or anything else.
According to Alexander Volkov, the Pallada yacht is on the balance sheet of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Church pays for its maintenance. How much does it cost, in the Valaam monastery they did not want to answer, referring to the "incorrectness" of the question.
What punishment threatens the owners of "Pallas"
Article 17.10. Administrative Code "Violation of the official use of state symbols of the Russian Federation"
Violation of the procedure for the official use of the State Flag of the Russian Federation, the State Emblem of the Russian Federation or the National Anthem of the Russian Federation - entails the imposition of an administrative fine on citizens in the amount of from 2 thousand to 3 thousand rubles;
for officials - from 5 thousand to 7 thousand rubles;
for legal entities - from 100 thousand to 150 thousand rubles.
What is Patriarch Kirill accused of?
The scandal inside the Russian Orthodox Church broke out in late March, when several priests from the Izhevsk and Udmurt dioceses, Archpriest Sergei Kondakov, rector of the St. Nicholas Church in the village of Zavyalova, member of the Public Chamber of the Udmurt Republic, addressed an open letter to Patriarch Kirill; Archpriest Mikhail Karpeev, rector of the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord of the village of Yagul and rector of the church of St. Basil the Great, d. Khokhryaki; priest Alexander Malykh, priest of the Cathedral of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky, candidate of theological sciences.
The letter, according to Regions.Ru, in particular, says.
“... We strongly ask that we stop the shameful practice of blind conciliation with the authorities and all kinds of flirting with moneybags ... We cannot but be embarrassed by the ease with which church awards, orders with images of saints, representatives of government and business are distributed ... We strongly ask that You, Your Holiness, have made sure that our people see you not only blessing and kissing the highest authorities, but also exposing them ... We strongly ask you to pay attention to the life of many rural priests on the gran and poverty, while a considerable part of the clergy, caressed by the powers that be, is drowning in luxury .... We strongly ask to put an end to the atrocities of those clergymen, including very high-ranking ones who indulge in shameful mortal sins. The sin of sodomy ... flourishes by destroying the Church from within ... "
In response to this letter, its authors received, in their words, "pressure that has nothing to do with Christianity." In late May, rebellious clerics announced that they were leaving the Russian Orthodox Church in the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad. They left the patriarch yet another — farewell — letter in which they stated that "the cult of the personality of the Patriarch of Moscow can destroy our Russian Orthodox Church."
This is not the first such scandal in the Russian Orthodox Church. The accusations of the Udmurt priests practically repeat the statements of the former Bishop of Chukchi Diomede made in 2007. As a result, Diomede likewise with a small group of adherents went into schism.
Yacht "Pallas"
total length - 32 m
Width - 7.45 m
Full load draft - 1.8 m
Cruising speed - 12.5 knots
Power reserve- 2500 nautical miles
Fuel supply - 24 000 l
Fresh water - 3000 l
Engines - 2 x Caterpillar 3196 (2x374 HP)
Materials hull / superstructure- steel / aluminum-magnesium alloy
Class- Det Nordske Veritas (DNV) + 1A1 LC Yacht R0 E0. Complies with ISA
Guest Accommodation- 8 people in 4 cabins
Crew- 4 people in 2 cabins
Designer- Guido de Groot Design / Guinton Naval Architects / MCC
Interior design- Guido de Groot Design
