On September 26, 2008, Sergei Kislyak, the new Russian Ambassador to the United States, paid a visit to His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion, the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, at his residence at the Synodal Building in New York City. We offer our readers photographs of the event, which was held in a warm and friendly atmosphere.
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30 сентября 2008 г.
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with H.E. Michael Spinellis, Ambassador of Greece to Russia
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with H.E. Michael Spinellis, Ambassador of Greece to Russia
On January 30, 2012, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department, met with H. E. Michael Spinellis, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Greek Republic to the Russian Federation.
Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church meets with US Ambassador Michael McFaul
Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church meets with US Ambassador Michael McFaul
On 30 March 2012, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with H. E. Michael McFaul, the recently appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USA to the Russian Federation. They were joined in the meeting, which took place at the Patriarch’s working residence in Chisty side-street, by Howard Solomon, deputy minister counsellor for political affairs of the US Embassy in Russia, and Jeremy Richart, political officer of the Embassy.
Collection of Russian icons of the US ambassador to the USSR up for auction in New York
Collection of Russian icons of the US ambassador to the USSR up for auction in New York
The collection was given to Bonhams by relatives of the American diplomat, who headed the embassies in the USSR, Turkey and Czechoslovakia.
