Moleben will be served in Moscow before going on memory of 1920 emigration

A prayer service before the start of a naval campaign dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the outcome of units of the Russian army and civilian refugees from Crimea will be served on Tuesday in the Don Monastery of Moscow with the blessing of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill . This was announced by RIA Novosti by the representative of the Foundation Andrei the First -Called (FAP) together with the Center for National Glory (central nervous system), organizing a campaign.

The action will be held on July 14 - 25 as part of the FAP and Central Military Service of the Russian MIRS on the route of compatriots who left Crimea in 1920, but in the reverse order: Bizernet (Tunisia) - Lemnos (Greece) - Gallipoli (Türkiye) - Istanbul (Türkiye) - Sevastopol.

Participants in the campaign are direct descendants of Russian emigrants of the first wave (Trubetskoy, Chavchavadze, Naryshkin, Shakhovsky, Golovins and many others), as well as prominent Russian public and state figures, famous writers, artists, scientists, representatives of business circles.

Among them are the chairman of the trusteeship of the FAP, the central nervous system, and the Russian Mir President Vladimir Yakunin, President of the FAP, Senator Sergei Shcheblygin, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alexander Saltanov, the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Valery Bogomolov, the chairman of the Duma Committee on Public and Religious Organizations, Sergei Popov. The head of the Rosoculture Alexander Kibovsky, Chairman of the President of the Russian Federation Georgy Vilinbakhov, Director of the State Archive Sergey Mironenko, Executive Director of the Board of the Russian World Foundation Vyacheslav Nikonov, Deputy Chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPC MP) Igumen Filip (Ryabykh), Bishop of Geneva and Western European Mikhail Mikhail (Donskoff).

Round tables, discussions on relevant topics will be held on the ship: “Russia and the Russian world: is historical memory common and necessary for all compatriots?”, “Problems of the unity of Russian state history”, “Who are we:“ Russian ”or“ Russian ”,“ Fate of empires: History Lessons ”,“ Holy Rus and Russian World as civilizational in the era of globalization ”,“ World wars in historical wars. The fate of Russia and Russian emigration. Lessons for the future. "Documentary films" Anastasia "," The death of the Russian squadron "," Gallipolian standing "will be shown.

In the Bizer - the Primorsky city of Tunisia (in the north of Africa), which in the 20s of the XX century was under the mandate of France and where it was decided to send the Russian squadron (35 ships of the former Black Sea Fleet of Russia under the command of Admiral Kedrov), - participants in the campaign will visit the Russian cemetery and the temple in the name of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky. There, on July 17, on the eve of the holiday of gaining the relics of St. Sergius of Radonezh, an all -night vigil will be committed.

On the Greek Island of Lemnos, where after the Civil War there were Cossack units of the Russian army, at the last time Russian cemetery, clergy and laity from the delegation of the FAP and central nervous system will elevate prayers for the repose of 500 compatriots who died from epidemics.

In the Turkish city of Gelibolu (former Gallipoli), a memorial service will be held and entrusted with wreaths to the monument to the monument to hundreds of Russians who died here in 1920-1921 (during the stay of the building of General Kutepov).

The campaign will end on the day of the Navy, on July 25, in Sevastopol, where the Divine Liturgy will be committed in the Cathedral of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Vladimir in Khersones.

The purpose of the program "Russian Mir" is "Promoting the processes of consolidation and the development of the unity of Russian historical self -awareness, covering all the bends and ups and downs of Russian history of the XX -XXI centuries."

According to the historical certificate of experts of the FAP and central nervous system, "on October 29, 1920, General Wrangel ordered the abandonment of Crimea," since "he did not have the forces and means to combat the Red Army." In total, 145 thousand 693 people were taken from Crimea on 126 ships, not counting the ship's teams. Among them - 50 thousand military, 6 thousand wounded, the rest are civilians, members of the military and officials.

After arriving in Istanbul, long negotiations began with France and England on the placement of the army and its provision is the most necessary. As a result of these negotiations, the first army corps under the command of General Kutepov was located on the Gallipoli Peninsula, the Don Corps under the command of General Abramov - in the vicinity of Istanbul, the Kuban corps under the command of General Fostikov - on the island of Lemnos in the north of the Aegean Sea. The Russian fleet was renamed the Russian squadron, and in December 1920 all ships under the command of Admiral Kedrov went to the Tunisian Bizer.