http://www.ej.ru/?a=note&id=9322 -- Radzikhovsky in 3 parts:
The Russia we know as culture never was "their" <i>Russia</i> and the Church was always with THEM -- with Power and People.
About Restoration or even Resurrection I could dream only around 1991...
Do I have go back to the Rublev's times to find the original voice of Russian Orthodoxy? Where this Church was in 1985, 1917 -- I can put in any other date. I said to myself many years ago -- Who am I, if even Tolstoy was not "our" according to <i>them</i>
I my twentieth century there was a ghost of Russia in place of Russia... I will never be their "our" Russian, i said to myself, -- and I left.
Miracle?
And who will notice it? Not <i>them</i>, not "Our Russians"...
Return to rituals of Russian Orthodox Church in search of ANY national idea -- another sign of the end.
The Russian Miracle never took place.
I have to drop their "our Russia" to save MY Russia, White and dead.
I took it with to America, and -- i will take it with me to Africa.