Maria Tobolova
“She is a Grand Duchess from head to toe; how aristocratic and royal she is! I feel without words that there is a whole closed and original world inside her.”
Archpriest Gregory Dyachenko
There is only one thing we must fear above all: that through our unbelief or unrighteous life, we might lose the grace-filled help of the Lord.
A delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, accompanied by the wonderworking Kursk Root Icon, is currently visiting the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Countess Anastasia Hendrikova served as a lady-in-waiting to Empress St. Alexandra, and Ekaterina Schneider taught Russian to Grand Duchess St. Elizabeth and later became a devoted friend and confidant of St. Alexandra.
Igumen Pavel (Polukov)
Probably no other creature on earth gazes into the sky. And only humans can turn their gaze to heavens, examining them and contemplating for a long time.