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...Nicholas-how nice to see you again!" cried History. "Wherever have you been? And the Tsarina Alix! Your four charming daughters, I presume-gracious, but those bullet holes are disfiguring. And the little hemophiliac-Tsarevich Alexei! Ah, yes, I understand-doomed for a certain term to walk the night. . . . Why, I've scarcely given you a thought since that time when the Communists threw your bodies down the mine shaft in Ekaterinburg [now Sverdlovsk]. Whatever brings you here...
Like his predecessor, Alexei will conduct the business of the church according to the two new principles of Orthodoxy: the Church must deal in religion and nothing else; its price of survival is absolute loyalty to the Soviet Government...
Patriotic Protege. Balding, handsome Alexei had been Acting Patriarch since Sergei's death (TIME, May 22), and his election came as no surprise. He is popular, strongly patriotic and his predecessor's protege. Said one church official before the election: "We all feel it will be Alexei. . . . It's just like Mr. Roosevelt...
...Roosevelt of Russian Orthodoxy was born and bred in Moscow. Intending to be a lawyer, he went to Moscow University's Jurisprudence School, changed his mind after graduating, became a monk instead. A bishop since 1913, Alexei became Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod in 1933 during the church's dark days. Ten years later he gained fame as a great Soviet patriot and received the Defense of Leningrad Medal for refusing to leave the besieged city...
English in Clean Alley. Alexei is fastidious, ascetic and persistently optimistic. He lives in monastic simplicity at the Patriarchate on Chisty Pereulok (clean alley), in a ground-floor room filled with ikons, paintings and sculptures...