Orthodoxy of correspondence

On the streets of Moscow, about 300 billboards were installed with quotes from the correspondence of the last Emperor Nicholas II with his wife. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Synodal Department for the interaction of the church with society and the media.

Billboards became part of the project "Nicholas II and Alexandra Fedorovna. Words of love." "This project is aimed at approving family values ​​in Russian society, as well as the report of truthful information about the life of the royal family to people," the representative of the synodal department said.

"For more than a hundred years, the personal life of the family of the last Romanovs has remained a target for myths and speculation. Meanwhile, the real story of their married life, based on faith, love and mutual respect, can serve as a model of family relations for our contemporaries," the Synodal Department notes.

At the same time, the Russian Orthodox Church noted that the project is in no way connected with the release of Matilda.

The director of Matilda Alexei, in an interview with Ehu Moscow, said that he was welcoming the installation of billboards in Moscow with quotes from the correspondence of the royal family. "I think without any irony that this is a very good thing and very much supports our picture, because it is fully consistent with the content of our film, thanks for these billboards," the teacher said.

The director noted that the last third of the film "Matilda" is devoted to just the stories of mutual love of Nicholas II and Alexandra Fedorovna. “Our film ends with the inscription that they had lived happily for 24 years and they had four daughters and a son,” the teacher emphasized.

The Russian Orthodox Church does not approve of the film "Matilda", but oppose its ban. On September 12, the head of the Synodal Department for Relations with Society and the Media, Vladimir Legoyda, said that acts of violence related to the film could not proceed from believers . “Not only the Orthodox Christian, but also to any believer, it would not occur to express his disagreement with something in a way that is dangerous for life and health of innocent people,” LEGODA noted. “We condemn, condemn and condemn the actions of the pseudo -religious radicals, no matter how religion they are the same as alien to the worldview of any believer Man, ”the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church emphasized.

At the same time, Legoyda urged not to equalize the protests with similar episodes that take place in the legal field. "The position of the Orthodox community, people who pray in connection with the release of the film" Matilda "or send appeals to those on whom the decision on the rental depends, and acts of demonstrative violence - phenomena from different moral galaxies," he said.

On September 14, the head of the external relations of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Ilarion, said that the situation around Matilda is similar to disputes about the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. “Then they tried to put us all in front of the dilemma: you and the“ Charl ”or you and the terrorists who shot the editorial staff? Now they are trying to put us before the choice: either you support“ Matilda ”, or you and those who call to burn the cinemas,” the hierarch noted. “I, for example, are unconditionally and categorically against any calls for violence, any threats addressed to whom Whether it was the director, actors, distributors, etc. I also opposed the ban on the show of censorship according to the Soviet model.

According to Hilarion, in the film the images of Emperor Nicholas II and Alexandra Fedorovna are distorted. "The anniversary of the revolution is an occasion to prayer and the commemoration of innocently injured, and not to continue to spat on their memory," the metropolitan noted.