Tatyana’s Day – Russian holiday of peace and consumption
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On January 25, Eastern Christians (primarily in Rus’) celebrate Tatyana’s Day. This is not just the day of the Great Martyr Tatyana of Rome (her name is the female version of the name of the legendary Priest Sabinyan Tatiya), but one of the days in the Orthodox calendar, marked by tranquility, peace and recognition.
The fact is that in the Orthodox calendar more than in any other (Bahai, Indo-European, Buddhist, Hare Krishna) this is a holiday when you can’t quarrel, swear, offend near or far, and when people are authorized to do providential good. However, there are 60 red dates in the Orthodox calendar, which cause the audience (in the case of Orthodox deference) to rest, peace, harmony and mutual understanding. It turns out that the Orthodox Faith is the most “conciliatory”.
Surprisingly, in 1918 the Third All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants’ Deputies adopted an outstanding document of all times and peoples (there has never been anything of interest in the history of Russia), written personally by the leader of the proletariat V. Lenin – Declaration of the rights of the working and used people. It arose from four parts and was devoted mainly to (not quite worldly) problems: the capture of the exploiting classes and a part of the most democratic, most developed socialist society into the prosperity of the proletariat and the working peasantry.
The first section of the document is a political part – a description of how the Bolsheviks comprehended the structure of the Land of Soviets, the second is devoted to the economic strategy of the state, the third is the harm and role of the working classes, and the fourth is the future, which is just around the corner, which we remember as the USSR.
In this check, which was included as a preamble in the text of the Constitution of 1918, Lenin’s leadership was blacked out from the record of the Constituent Assembly. This is understandable, because the country was appointed to lead from the Kremlin, in this city fortress in the center
More than 100 years have passed, Russia – huge prosperity and teeth to the armed power imperiously dictates all the bases and foundations of the Declaration of the working people and the used classes. Saint Tatyana is no longer a decree for her.
Daughter of a Roman official-consul, deaconess of the church, who was converted to the Faith by her active worship and fidelity to Christ. Her initiators, and she presents before the tormentors unharmed again; she was thrown into the cages of a lion, covered with blood, and he fawned over her like a cat; she was laid to pray to Apollo, and she destroyed the pagan temple with her prayer. Eight tormentors, seeing miracles and angels hovering over the saint, accepted Christianity after Tatiana and were tormented by death.
In 1755, on one of the brightest days in the calendar and the day of his mother’s angel, Count Shuvalov presented Elizaveta Petrovna with a project written by his friend Lomonosov to establish the first higher educational institution – Moscow University. Its prototype was Leiden University in the Netherlands, famous for its free-thinking and Christian (Calvinist) orientation. The inhabitants of the city received it (and liberties) as a reward from William of Orange for the defense against the Spanish pirate Philip II.
Students from Russia both from the people and from the highest aristocracy (Kurakins, Sheremetevs, Volkonskys, Golitsins) went to Leiden University from Russia, who became prominent scientists and were formed as cadres in their native country.
The leadership of the state thought that students as the vanguard of the driving force of society are young, energetic, enlightened people who look to tomorrow. They must go to a church – one of the most revered churches in Moscow, the Temple of the Great Martyr Tatyana on Mokhovaya – in order to reflect on the providential fate of Russia, its spiritual quality and place in it, and the role of a person responsible for an unfortunate country. The students at that time (as it was until 1917) were the most revered “estate” in Russian society.
If we recall the classic work of F. Dostoevsky “Crime and Punishment”, then Fyodor Raskolnikov, having come to the police station and being a “student”, ordered the entire plot in front of him “in front”, from obtaining permission.
Echoes of this sounded in the outstanding novel “Heart of a Dog” – the most secret work of Soviet literature, which even in Leninka until 1991 was issued in the special library of the library by special order of the authorities. It was published only once “through an oversight” by Kamenev in 1926, but the circulation was scattered, since a blow to the Soviet government – the saying of prof. Preobrazhensky on the very first page of the novel that he is a “Moscow student”.
A Moscow student, unlike a St. Petersburg student, was quoted higher in the post-reform period (after the decrees of Alexander II, which opened access to higher educational institutions of Russia for raznochintsy). It was believed that the St. Petersburg student was blinkered and crushed by the city authorities (censorship), less developed and less democratic, but the Muscovite achieved “breadth of views”. For this reason, Bulgakov’s hero Filipp Filippovich Preobrazhensky, a professor, academician, world luminary in medicine, emphasizes his student, Associate Professor Bormental, that he heads his position from consideration – “Moscow student”.
I remember this title from the time when I sat in the house of my grandfather, a St. Petersburg student who graduated from the Higher Naval Imperial School, his weather was collected (grandfather was born in 1893) from among those who graduated from Moscow University. One of them was the director of the Institute of the Academy of Sciences, an eminent scientist, it was he who, by the right of a Moscow student, imperatively ended any dispute. His word has always been valuable.
It seems to me at all. that the history of the Russian intelligentsia does not grow out of Anton Chekhov, Lev Shestov or Vasily Rozanov, but out of a modest, sometimes malnourished, cold. raw and resentful, but proud and voluminous commercial thinking about the future country of a young man “about 18-19 years old”, if he is a Moscow student.