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...occupation, Baldin worked all night, removing 362 of the drawings from their mattes and packing them, as best he could, in a suitcase. They went with him, locked up, all the way out of Germany; finally, in January 1946, he turned them over to the state restoration workshops at Zagorsk (now Sergeyev Posad), near Moscow, and was able to take a long look at them. "I was surprised by what I saw," Baldin recalls a half-century later. "All the masters of Europe, from 14 different countries. They had to be saved, but I also knew they...
...Pope may no longer be an Italian, but it goes without saying that the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia must be a Russian. Until last week, that is, when yet another unbreakable rule was broken in the Soviet Union. At the resplendently gilded Trinity-St. Sergius monastery in Zagorsk, ceremonial bells and chimes greeted the election of an Estonian of German stock, Metropolitan Aleksy of Leningrad, as the next Patriarch. It is the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution that the Russian Orthodox Church has chosen its leader free of manipulation by the atheistic regime...
Moscow kitchen workers, soldiers and maids waited in long lines at hotels to snap up costly and usually unavailable religious books, medals and icon reproductions. At the celebrated 14th century monastic center at Zagorsk, 40 miles northeast of Moscow, the crowds and food stalls lent a carnival air. An aged woman who had come from Leningrad said, "I'm no longer afraid to tell people I'm a Christian," as tears streamed down her cheeks. A young mother held the hands of her two youngsters and remarked, "I hope they can wear their crosses with pride...
...ecumenical battle, the Russian hierarchy last week held its first council since the Communist Revolution that was summoned for purposes other than to elect a new Patriarch. The four-day assembly was attended by 74 bearded bishops behind the fortress-like walls of the Trinity- St. Sergius Monastery in Zagorsk. Nearly 1,000 of the faithful stood for hours in the withering heat to catch a glimpse of the gathering holy men. With the church's head, Patriarch Pimen, 78, so ill from diabetes that he made only brief appearances at most of the millennial events, speculation hovered over...
...noon. And in Moscow, ten time zones to the west over an endless expanse of tundra, forests and inland seas, it is half past midnight, and yesterday has just ended. Not for eight hours will the commuters to the left head for their jobs in the capital from suburban Zagorsk. In the Soviet Union, more than anywhere else on earth, a day is here and there and now and later all at once...