The Russian Orthodox Church wants to exclude the stories of Chekhov, Bunin and Kuprin from the school curriculum

Member of the Commission of the Moscow Patriarchate on Family, Protection of Maternity and Childhood, Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov, announced the need to exclude the stories of Anton Chekhov "On Love", Ivan Bunin "Caucasus" and Alexander Kuprin "Bush Lilac" from the school program. Such information is reported by Interfax.

In these works, the cleric explained, “free love is sung”, and in one case the deceived husband ends with suicide, in the other - the family breaks up, in the third - the adultery ends with nothing. “These vivid artistic images are a slow -action mine for our children,” Vladimirov said. “Our commission should apply to the offers to the Department of Education.”

Meanwhile, in the "bush of lilac" Kuprin is not told about "free love", nor about the adultery and the decay of the family, nor about suicide.

Vladimirov in 1983 graduated from the Russian branch of the FILFAK MSU.

It was claimed that this cleric blessed the leader of the “God's will” movement Dmitry Tsorionov (Enteo) to fight the prostitution advertising and the Blud Museum on Arbat . ”

The other day, Patriarch Kirill said that, at the suggestion of Vladimir Putin, he creates a society of Russian literature, which he intends to lead after his education.

In March 2013, the chairman of the Commission of the Public Chamber to preserve the historical and cultural heritage Pavel Pavel Zatogaylo said that the study of the tales of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin in schools should be put under special control, since they pose a potential danger to children. The critical articles by Vissarion of Belinsky, the civil lyrics of Nikolai Nekrasov, the “thunderstorm” of Alexander Ostrovsky, the Fathers and Children of Ivan Turgenev were among the other potentially dangerous texts. The member of OP saw the danger of some of these works in the fact that their characters can be perceived by adolescents as images.

In August 2013, the Ministry of Culture proposed to oblige the libraries to remove the literature intended for adults from places available for children to protect children from the possible pernicious influence of these books.

In November of the same year, it was reported with reference to the senior assistant to the prosecutor of the Stavropol Territory Kurbangali Sharipov that the department demanded that the school libraries be removed from school libraries , mysticism, horrors and hooligan poems of the books of Bunin, Sergey Yesenin, Vladimir Nabokov and a number of other writers. The next day, however, the prosecutor's office made a refutation , explaining that Sharipov’s statement was expressed by his “private opinion”. A few days later, the official was fired .

In February 2014, employees of the Omsk Regional Library named after Pushkin refused to issue a 16-year-old schoolgirl Roman Theodore Dreiser “Financier”, explaining their decision by the presence of sexual scenes in the book.