** 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.

( Russian Orthodox Church and Georgian Orthodox Church )

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.

In Eastern Orthodox Christianity it is possible to find Icons of St. George riding on Black horse, as well, there are various examples in Russian Iconography, like the Icon in British Museum Collection.

Russian icon | Russian Icon depicting Andrew of Crete | St. Andrew of Crete ( left ) and St. Mary of Egypt.

For this reason, especially in the Russian Orthodox Church, the pectoral cross that the priest wears at all times will often have the Icon of Christ " Not Made by Hands " inscribed on it.

A secondary meaning ( based on a non-standard translation of the Greek and Russian equivalent terms ) is the production of religious images, called icons, in the Byzantine and Orthodox Christian tradition ; that is covered at Icon.

Billington is the author of Mikhailovsky and Russian Populism ( 1956 ), The Icon and the Axe ( 1966 ), Fire in the Minds of Men ( 1980 ), Russia Transformed: Breakthrough to Hope, August 1991 ( 1992 ) and The Face of Russia ( 1998 ), the companion book to the three-part television series of the same name, which he wrote and narrated for the Public Broadcasting Service.

Most venerated shrines of the cathedral are the relics of St. Aleksiy of Moscow, the great intercessor for the Russian land ( fast days, February 12 / 25 and May 20 / June 2, October 5 / 18 ) ; the miraculous Kazan Icon of the Mother of God ( fast days, July 8 / 21 and October 22 / November 4 ).

Pavel Filonov, Faces on an Icon ( Countenances ), 1940, oil on paper, 64x56 cm, Russian Museum.

* Icon of the Mother of God " Staro Rus " ( Staraya Russa ) Old Russian ( 1570 )

* Priscilla Hunt, " The Novgorod Sophia Icon and ' The Problem of Old Russian Culture ' Between Orthodoxy and Sophiology ", Symposion: A Journal of Russian Thought, vol.

* Priscilla Hunt " Andrei Rublev ’ s Old Testament Trinity Icon in Cultural Context ", The Trinity-Sergius Lavr in Russian History and Culture: Readings in Russian Religious Culture, vol.

He had made several attempts to solve the problems which arose over a period of centuries between the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches, like giving back the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in August 2004.

Icon of St. Peter ( 15th century, Russian State Museum, Saint Petersburg ).

Russian Icon of Our Lady of Vladimir

* On-line text by Simon Ushakov A Word to Loving-Meticulous Icon Painting – in Russian

* 1902 – Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, St Petersburg.

These and other works raised his reputation so high that the most flattering offers were sent to him from the Russian court to induce him to remove to St Petersburg, but these were declined, although many of his finest works made their way to the Hermitage Museum.

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.

The Miracle of St. Michael at Chonae, a 15th-century Russian icon.

The Wedding of Nicholas II and Grand duke | Grand Duchess Alexandra Fyodorovna ( Alix of Hesse ) | Alexandra Feodorovna, by Ilya Repin | Ilya Yefimovich Repin, 1894 ( Russian Museum | Russian State Museum, Saint Petersburg | St. Petersburg ).

* Order of St George, Fourth Class of the Russian Empire-1916

The 1907 Anglo-Russian Entente ( the Convention of St. Petersburg ) not only divided the region into separate areas of Russian and British influence but also established foundations for Afghan neutrality.

The Yupik are indigenous or aboriginal peoples who live along the coast of western Alaska, especially on the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta and along the Kuskokwim River ( Central Alaskan Yup ' ik ), in southern Alaska ( the Alutiiq ) and along the eastern coast of Chukotka in the Russian Far East and St. Lawrence Island in western Alaska ( the Siberian Yupik ).

Siberian Yupik reside along the Bering Sea coast of the Chukchi Peninsula in Siberia in the Russian Far East and in the villages of Gambell and Savoonga on St. Lawrence Island in Alaska.

In childhood he visited the Imperial Court of Russia at St Petersburg and became intimate with the doomed Russian Imperial Family, harbouring romantic feelings towards Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, whose photograph he kept at his bedside for the rest of his life.

By some accounts, in the St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament, the title " Grandmaster " was formally conferred by Russian Tsar Nicholas II, who had partially funded the tournament.

Some ' Russian letters ' found in one version of St. Cyril's life are explainable as misspelled ' Syrian letters ' ( in Slavic, the roots are very similar: rus-vs. sur-or syr -), etc.

St. Nestor the Chronicler, the first Russian historians | Russian historiographer ( by Viktor Vasnetsov ).

The grave of Princess Yourievsky ( 1878-1959 ) who was a member of the ill-fated Russian Royal family and who lived in North Hayling for many years, may be found in St. Peter's churchyard ; and the grave of Scotsman George Glas Sandeman, nephew of the founder of Sandeman Port and second head of that company, is prominently featured in the north-east part of St. Mary's graveyard.

File: Karl Briullov, The Last Day of Pompeii ( 1827 – 1833 ). jpg | Karl Bryullov, The Last Day of Pompeii, 1827-1833, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

File: Repin Cossacks. jpg | Ilya Repin, Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, 1880-1891, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

At 16, he entered the Russian Orthodox monastic life at the Trinity-St. Sergius Hermitage near St. Petersburg.

An example is Vasilyevsky Island in the Russian city of St. Petersburg, which had its western shore extended westward by some 0. 5 km due to the construction of a new sea terminal.

* 1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree.

White killer whales occur sporadically but rarely among normal killer whales ; they have been spotted in the northern Bering Sea and around St. Lawrence Island, and near the Russian coast.