Cathedral of signatures

The Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg filed a lawsuit on the authority of the transfer of the St. Isaac's Cathedral to the use of the Russian Orthodox Church, according to Fontanka.ru. The document was signed by about 20 applicants.

"We believe that the disposal of the order we disputed, as well as the action of the Committee on Property Relations on the issuance of this order, illegally and violate our right to access and the safety of the cultural heritage object of federal significance, a monument of urban planning and architecture" Isaac's Cathedral ", the right to participate in cultural life, including the right to familiarize themselves with cultural values, the right to humanitarian and art education in the humanitarian education in humanitarian education. Parts of self -education, as well as the right to a favorable habitat, which is ensured, among other things, by compliance with the legislation on the protection of cultural heritage objects, ”said Bris Vishnevsky, deputy of the city leaf assembly from the Yabloko party.

According to him, the lawsuit also notes the fact that Smolny took actions to transfer the ROC Cathedral Cathedral before such an application was received from the Patriarchate. On January 12, the vice-governor Mikhail Mokratsov said that the document from the Russian Orthodox Church has not yet received and will be drawn up in the second half of January. In September 2015, the governor of St. Petersburg refused the previous statement.

On January 10, the Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko announced the transfer of the Council of the Russian Orthodox Church. At the same time, he promised that the access of visitors to the cathedral would remain unlimited, and the further maintenance of the building would be maintained at the expense of clergy. Meanwhile, on January 11, the head of the legal service of the Moscow Patriarchate of Igumen Ksenia (Chernoga) said that the Russian Orthodox Church awaits subsidies for the maintenance of the cathedral . “Since this is the UNESCO object, perhaps city subsidies should be involved,” Igumena noted.

On January 12, it became known that the St. Isaac's Cathedral will be transferred to the free use of the Russian Orthodox Church for a period of 49 years. The contract must be concluded with the Russian Orthodox Church no later than two years after the signing of the order, that is, until the end of 2018. Prior to this, an inventory of all museum funds should be carried out.

On Wednesday, the St. Petersburg Union of Scientists opposed the transfer of the cathedral . "Built in the middle of the 19th century at the expense of the state treasury, the St. Isaac's Cathedral never belonged to the church itself. It was not necessary to rush from extreme: during the years of totalitarianism, temples were destroyed, now they began to transfer the cathedrals that have long become museums. Museums belonging to the city, which are historical and cultural monuments of global significance and its" visiting card ", should remain secular state state In the case of the St. Isaac's Cathedral - “Double -purpose,” the text of the statement says.

On the same day, the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg adopted an appeal to the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky with a request to ensure the speedy transfer of the cathedral. The draft document was supported by 41 deputies, eight voted against, one abstained. The appeal did not support the parliamentary factions of Yabloko, the Party of Growth and Just Russia. Already after the vote in the hall there was a brawl between unicorn and the deputy from the "apple" Mikhail Amosov.