Tag Archives: russian orthodox

The world was changing in wonderful and confusing ways. The Berlin Wall, that concrete block demarcation between the free West and the Iron Curtain of communism, fell to the ground two years ...

Vladimir Putin is placing Russia’s age-old religious art at the service of his war aims. In Moscow, the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour echoes to Orthodox chants and prayers. It’s packed with ...

A Russian church glorifies deified power rather than the power of God. I rarely discuss contemporary ecclesiastical art. I am, after all, a Byzantinist, and find it much more interesting to think ...