** Herman of Alaska ( Russian Orthodox Church and related congregations )

* 1962 – Representatives from the Russian Orthodox Church and Vatican City meet in Metz, France, and come to an agreement wherein the Russian church would send observers to the Second Vatican Council and in exchange, the Roman Catholic Church would refuse to condemn Communism.

During the years 1106-1107 A. D., a Russian Orthodox Abbot named Daniel made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and recorded his experiences.

* Russian Orthodox Abbot of Valaam Monastery

** Basil Fool for Christ ( Russian Orthodox Church )

* Adrian of Ondrusov ( died 1549 ), Russian Orthodox saint and wonder-worker

* Adrian of Poshekhonye ( died 1550 ), Russian Orthodox saint, hegumen of Dormition monastery in Yaroslavl region

* 1927 – Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.

Pobedonostsev awakened in his pupil little love of abstract study or prolonged intellectual exertion, but instilled into the young man's mind the belief that zeal for Russian Orthodox thought was an essential factor of Russian patriotism to be cultivated by every right-minded emperor.

In some dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church it is customary for the bishop to visit each parish or region of the diocese some time during Great Lent and give Anointing for the faithful, together with the local clergy.

* Unction of the Sick article from the Sydney, Australia diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

* The Mystery of Unction Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Washington, DC

* 2007 – Boris Yeltsin's funeral – the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.

Although his paternal great-grandfather had been a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church, and his pious mother did have him baptised, he was an atheist in later life.

After the arrival of missionaries in the late 18th century, many Aleuts became Christian by joining the Russian Orthodox Church.

In order to receive permission from Bardot's parents to marry her, Vadim, originally a Russian Orthodox Christian, was urged to convert to Catholicism, although it is not clear if he ever did so.

The now-deceased Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Patriarch Alexius II | Alexius II, consecrating a Russian Orthodox diocesan bishop.

It was popular as a village instrument for centuries, particularly with the skomorokhs, sort of free-lance musical jesters whose tunes ridiculed the Tsar, the Russian Orthodox Church, and Russian society in general.

Musical instruments are not allowed in Russian Orthodox liturgy.

Shortly before his death, a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church had given Pasternak the last rites.

Since the time of Catherine II the ranks of Abbot and Archimandrite have been given as honorary titles in the Russian Church, and may be given to any monastic, even if he does not in fact serve as the superior of a monastery.

As a national revival occurred towards the end of the period of Ottoman rule ( mostly during the 19th century ), a modern Bulgarian literary language gradually emerged which drew heavily on Church Slavonic / Old Bulgarian ( and to some extent on literary Russian, which had preserved many lexical items from Church Slavonic ) and later reduced the number of Turkish and other Balkanic loans.

Four of these have been previously canonized as saints, namely William of Norwich, Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln, Simon of Trent ( Simon was decanonized in the 20th century ), and Gavriil Belostoksky who remains canonized in the Russian Orthodox Church.

Visitors and merchants were especially struck by the beautiful monasteries and churches of the city, in particular, Hagia Sophia, or the Church of Holy Wisdom: A Russian 14th-century traveler, Stephen of Novgorod, wrote, " As for St Sophia, the human mind can neither tell it nor make description of it.

Another exception is Russian, in which the name of the feast, Пасха ( Paskha ), is a borrowing of the Greek form via Old Church Slavonic.

This congress did not have representatives from the remaining Orthodox members of the original Pentarchy ( the Patriarchates of Jerusalem, Antioch, and Alexandria ) or from the largest Orthodox church, the Russian Orthodox Church, then under persecution from the Bolsheviks, but only effective representation from the Patriarch of Constantinople and the Patriarch of Serbia.

While the Russian Orthodox Church does recognize the first seven ecumenical councils as valid, some Russian Orthodox theologians believe that the infallibility of these councils ' statements derived from their acceptance by the faithful ( and thus from the infallibility of all believers ), and not from the acts of the councils themselves.

* 2008 – South Ossetian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.

* 1770 – The Georgian king Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.

* 1804 – The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire

It is the same source for the names Persian ( زمر ّ د zomorrod ), Turkish ( zümrüt ), Sanskrit ( मरकत ; marakata ), Kannada ( ಪಚ ್ ಚ ೆ ; Pacche ), Telugu ( Paccha ), Georgian ( ზურმუხტი ; zurmukhti ), Russian ( изумруд ; izumrud ) and Armenian zmruxt.

Thus many Orthodox Churches adopt a national title ( e. g. Albanian Orthodox, Bulgarian Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox, Georgian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Macedonian Orthodox, Montenegrin Orthodox, Romanian Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox, Ukrainian Orthodox etc.

Following the Russian Church in rank is Georgian, followed by Serbian, Romanian, and then Bulgarian Church.

Most notable for their republican cinema were the Russian SFSR, Armenian SSR, Georgian SSR, Ukrainian SSR, and, to a lesser degree, Lithuanian SSR, Byelorussian SSR and Moldavian SSR.

*-Eight Georgian HMMWVs were seized by Russian forces during the 2008 South Ossetia War.

Stalin preferred Georgian wine over Russian vodka, but usually ate traditional Russian food.

The inscription reads in Russian and Georgian: " To the Militia of Our Faithful Imeretian People for Exceptional Courage Displayed against the Mountaineers in 1838.

Nominative cases are found in Slovak, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Georgian, German, Latin, Greek, Icelandic, Old English, Old French, Polish, Czech, Romanian, Russian, and Pashto, among other languages.

Some scholars have noted the similarities between the words for wine in Kartvelian ( e. g. Georgian ღვინო ), Indo-European languages ( e. g. Russian вино ), and Semitic (* wayn ), pointing to the possibility of a common origin of the word denoting " wine " in these language families.

* April 20 – Georgian king Erekle II defeats Persians in battle of Aspindza, though Russian General Totleben betrays him.

* January 7 – Christmas in the Russian Orthodox Church and Georgian Orthodox Church of Christianity

It also echoed in the Tale of Queen Dinara, a popular 16th-century Russian story about a fictional Georgian queen fighting against the Persians.

Fascinated by the " exotic " Caucasus, the Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov wrote the romantic poem Tamara (; 1841 ) in which he utilized the old Georgian legend about a siren-like mountainous princess whom the poet gave the name of Queen Tamar.

In Georgian literature, Tamar was also romanticized, but very differently from the Russian and Western European view.

Furthermore, the Georgian literati, reacting to the Russian rule in Georgia and the suppression of national institutions, contrasted Tamar's era to their contemporary situation, lamenting the irretrievably lost past in their writings.

Shalva Dadiani's play, originally entitled The Unfortunate Russian ( უბედური რუსი ; 1916 – 1926 ), was attacked by the Soviet critics for distorting the " centuries-long friendship of the Russian and Georgian peoples.

In 2002, a satyrical short-story The First Russian ( პირველი რუსი ) penned by the young Georgian writer Lasha Bughadze and focused on a frustrated wedding night of Tamar and Yuri outraged many conservatives and triggered a nationwide controversy, including heated discussions in the media, the Parliament of Georgia and the Patriarchate of the Georgian Orthodox Church.

* Allen, William Edward David ( 1932, reissued 1971 ), A History of the Georgian People: From the Beginning Down to the Russian Conquest in the Nineteenth Century.