Alexey Solomin: "Isaacievsky for the king"

“The story of the transmission of the Isaac's Cathedral looks odious, unreasonable and very voluntaristic only at first glance. The patriarch asked Petersburg about the cathedral - they gave it to him. But, as they say, not so simple,” the journalist in the blog writes on the website of the Echo of Moscow radio station.

“The fact that this decision is federal, and not urban (Cathedral in the ownership of the city), said Alexander Nevzorov yesterday, familiar with many people who make decisions. I have no reason not to trust this, because for St. Petersburg it was a loss. The museum provided itself, it was not a burden.

The question arises: why is this to the federal center?

Let's get distracted. Since 2015, the Special Government Commission for the burial of the remains of Tsarevich Alexei and Grand Duchess Maria has been working. These are the children of Nicholas II, shot with him in the basement of the Ipatievsky house in July 1918, but buried not with his father, mother, three sisters and servants, but separately. And they were found only in 2007, and therefore were not reburied in the Peter and Paul Cathedral in 1998. Yes, and Nikolai himself was an unknown person, he was not recognized by the church and ended up in the Peter and Paul Cathedral contrary to its position.

With the creation of a government commission, where a fairly wide range of specialists - historians, genetics, and representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, went to official recognition (both new -naval remains and already buried) and their official reburial. The numbers were even approximately determined, the participation of important government officials was planned. But the schedule went, the plan changed due to the adamant position of the church - they needed more examinations and evidence. Although genetics showed their 99.9% back in the late 2000s, examinations began to be carried out again. They conducted the exhumation of the remains (it would be better if Alexander I was exhumed. Well, or at least looked at whether the king was in place). They found the king’s shirt, stained with blood, made new tests. WHO and now there.

Vladimir Legoyda, however, reassured not so long ago: most likely, the issue will be resolved in 2017. ("I think that next year the results of all three examinations will certainly be reduced.")

He decided, I believe, by the transfer of the St. Isaac's Cathedral.

The fact is that the flow of pilgrims has not exhausted to Yekaterinburg since Nikolai and his family was recognized as saints. If the family is officially buried in St. Petersburg, then the flow of pilgrims can be greatly reduced, only curious will remain. The case must be solved so that everyone is good - the state is not in conflict with the church (as in the 98th), and for this the church should not lose anything. In the sense of income.

Honestly, I assumed that the churches would be transferred to the Peter and Paul Cathedral, where the king was resting. But the transmission of Isaacia is completely fits into this concept.

Only Petersburg was offended, but that one Petersburg was so great as the establishment of historical justice? "